Posted by Carol Anderson on 22/7/2015, 11:38 am, in reply to "Re: paruresis is destroying my sons life"

dear Andrew,thank you for your reply.we are based in Scotland.my son is 24 and is finding this situation unbearable.he has been in the same job since 16 and has his own flat.my concerns are growing every day and today I checked my PayPal account to discover he has ordered a helium gas canister and tubing so he can kill himself.i have just returned one of the packages but this is obviously just stalling things.he is very agoraphobic and won't leave the house which he will loose eventually if he doesn't go back to work,he is a builder by trade and this makes his paruresis impossible to cope with on building sites.i made a Drs appt for him today but everything seems to move so slowly up here and he is waiting on a referral from adult psychological services.Andrew I really don't know what to do as I have to take theses suicide threats seriously now.i really appreciate your advice as half of the Drs don't take this condition seriously or don't know much about it at all.yours Carol Anderson

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