mum's friend
 

My mum's friend keeps phoning through the night saying he feels suicidal.

He has depression i think i'm not sure, but i know he sees i psychiatrist.

He lives alone and drinks vodka all day, so when he's phoning he's drunk.

He doesn't accept help from the mental health team when they try to help him, he told my mum tonight that his crisis team have told him to stop phoning them.

Apparently he has done this to 2 of my mum's other friends and he'll do it every night for months until he is told to stop.

He always phones back within 10 minutes of the call ending saying exactly the same things as before and apologising for waking us. If we don't answer he just keeps trying until we do. It's crazy because he doesn't have to be up in the morning for anything wheras my mum and i do.
I have a hard time getting a sleep as is it without this nonense.

Neither me nor my mum know what to say to him and we don't want to be mean to him but we have to stop him from calling us all night every night.
Any suggestions folks?

I hope you are okay at the moment. I can imagine a situation like this would be hard do deal with although i have not been in one before. Perhaps you could see him (hopefully when he is sober) and explain to him that he needs to either accept help when its offered or stop strying to get it then rejecting it when he does.

Sorry i can't offer much more but i don't have any experience in these sorts of matters.

Can you give him numbers of various helplines - Samaritans, Saneline etc?