Worrying about suicidal people online - ways to stop fearing the worst?

I have a thing when people online (real, or fake) say they are feeling suicidal or have attempted. What tips are there for us when someone online says this, to get closure or know if they are okay? Basically I want to know ways to find out an online stranger hasn’t died? Any tips or ideas?

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OlderSometimesWiser · F

There very rarely are any ways to know for sure. That’s why I find it important to take every post of that nature seriously. There’s never any concrete way of knowing what’s going on in the minds and hearts of those behind the computer screen.

BurningBright · 31-35, M

@OlderSometimesWiser thank you. I hope it was a lie.

It happened on MySpace in 2009. I believe the person was lying as they were using photos of other people and I was messaged by multiple accounts in a pile-on attack. All the accounts had fake images of site-models.

In light of this, do you think I was lied to and no one attempted, or died? The fear has always stuck in my head that it was real - even if the people saying it had fake identities 😢