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Should I employ a binding spell to help my suicidal daughter?

10/7/2014

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QUESTION - I am not really new to witchcraft, I used to study about 10 years ago but I am finding some similarities between quantum physics and the law of attraction. I am thinking very seriously about doing a binding spell on my 17yr daughter who recently tried to kill herself. I am afraid for her. I have been working with the material world for a year, and it doesn't seem to be working. I am thinking about doing a binding spell and then try to do some crystal healing.

ANSWER - When you say you have been working with the material world for a year - are you referring to the fact that you have taken tangible and practical steps to help her? I am going to presume that the steps you have taken so far include seeking medical and psychiatric help, talking to her and offering her both emotional and practical support. I'm assuming you have listened as well as talked and that you have done your best to understand her and the reasons why she believes her life has gone so wrong that she believes suicide to be a viable option. If you haven't done these things then you need to and you shouldn't even think about turning to a magical solution until you have. I get the impression from your question that you genuinely believe you have done all you can but to anybody else reading this answer and looking for help the answer must be to take those practical steps first.

I am glad you are taking your daughter's suicide attempt seriously. I hear far too many people spouting that those who try to commit suicide are just doing it as a cry for help. I consider this to be insulting to the people who must be in a very difficult place in their lives and also wholly inaccurate. I'd say trying to kill yourself is a pretty good indication that you want to kill yourself. When somebody does attempt suicide this should be taken seriously - the worst thing you can do to a person surviving a suicide attempt is to belittle it, doing so will only give them even less reason for wanting to live.

So, assuming that all the practical steps have already been taken and with the proviso that magic should be used not to replace conventional medical help but to complement it - do I think that binding will help in this situation? Yes, I do, I think binding could be used to bring about some very positive results here. Although binding is more commonly associated with defensive magic it can be used to equal effect in protection magic and protection is essentially what is needed here.

The key is to be clear about what you are binding. This is partly why I am suggesting that you open the channels of communication between the two of you first so you know what the problem is. I can see a binding spell here working in one of two ways. If your daughter is feeling suicidal because of influences in the outside world then the spell would take the form of binding her into a protective cocoon to shield and shelter her from the things that are driving her to suicide. This could be achieved quite easily with a poppet - and I'd suggest using a bandage for the binding to symbolise the healing connection. You could further place the bound poppet into a sealed glass jar to create a barrier between your daughter and the influences from which you are protecting her. Protective herbs can be added to the jar and you can re-energise the spell by keeping it in a salt circle for additional protection.

Your daughter's suicidal thoughts however may stem more from her own psyche than they do from external influence - this is just as plausible - suicidal thoughts can stem from internal depressive illnesses as easily as they can from external causes. I would caution from seeing these causes as being less debilitating. Our minds can often be our own greatest adversary. If you believe the cause to be related more to herself than her circumstances then you need to bind her from harming herself. I would work a spell where there is a strong emphasis on preventing her ability to act to harm herself. This could be making a wire poppet and tying her hands behind her back, making a clay poppet and removing the hands to store them safely separately from her body or even sewing little protective mittens to slip over the hands of the poppet. The style of spell you use doesn't really matter, what matters in this kind of working is the strength of the association between the person and the poppet. 

You mention crystal healing - yes it does have some merits though I see the benefits of crystals here as being more of an icing on the cake for when the problems are solved. Crystals won't stop your daughter being suicidal but when she is back to a stable emotional equilibrium they may help her to retain a more peaceful state of mind. Think crystals more as a maintenance of wellbeing rather than a path to wellbeing in itself.

I honestly believe the key to effective spell work here is having that upfront frank discussion with your daughter and taking her concerns seriously. If you can identify why she feels this way then you can direct your energies more readily to the root of the problem. You may also find that the skills of the listener can sometimes be even more powerful than the skills of the witch...

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Danette
10/7/2014 05:12:59 am

I want to thank you for all your advise. You are right to presume that I have taken all the necessary steps possible to help my daughter. She see a therapist 2 times a week for the last 6 months. She has seen a psychiatrist in the past and presently she is schedule to see one twice a week along with her therapist 3 times a week. She is also on medication. With all this in mind we meaning her father and I have recently became aware that she is a cutter. Here is the situation in a nut shell. She is 17, her father and I have been separated for 10 years. I feel that she has not over come the feelings of that time. At the time her father left my mother passed away. So needless to say I was not there for her emotionally. I tried my best. but ended up in therapy of for 2 years. Her father left the kids for about a year with no visitation. All she ( 7yrs old) knew was one day we were a family and the next day we weren't. I have been trying my best to make thing right in our relationship she still feels a void with her father. She lives with him at the moment and have for the past 3 years. I lost my job 3 years ago and have not had a study enough job to provide a home for us. I took her out to lunch yesterday and we talk for over 3 hours. The bottom line as she put it is that she hurt herself mainly to get a rise out of her father. She wants him desperately to pay attention to her. He has been deemed as having a Narcissist personality by my daughter's therapist. He has not gone with her to therapy at all. Not one session. My therapist told me I had to make a decision "Accept him or Walk Away" there is no changing him if he doesn't even acknowledge his behavior. I hurt for my daughter. I know what she is going though in that aspect. but My hands are tied because he is her father. I have sent up family therapy for her and I and ask him to come... My fingers are crossed that he will come. Again that you so much for your advise... with blessing thank you

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Dreiyad
6/10/2019 09:43:23 am

P.S. Also to add, I am trying to arrange to travel to the country my friend is in as well to see him in person, in addition to maintaining dialogue from afar for now. I really love this man & am so afraid of him doing something to hurt himself. He generally has a positive outlook he actually gives online lectures about positivity & manifestation of dreams, & is deeply intelligent & a great light giver to others, but he still has these feelings in himself, because he is so high thinking, he can get a little detached from this world & preoccupied with the next world.

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Dreiyad
6/10/2019 09:40:20 am

My friend is suicidal & I want to help him too but I am in another country & so am not close enough to directly physically help him. I did a search for "witchcraft to prevent suicide" out of lacking other ideas. I have been maintaining daily dialogue with him & am trying my best to help on a more direct personal level. I don't have contacts for his family or friends. His mother also committed suicide years ago. I'm very worried. I love this person very dearly & so when I searched google this link came up in the results. Can you please tell me what I can do, what crystals might help, should I apply the same methods of a binding spell as you have told to the person above? If I do the spell & I am moving overseas soon, should I bring it with me to keep it safe or redo it when I am over there? I am not sure if I can bring a jar containing herbs because of importation laws. Should I wait until after I arrive at my destination or should I do it without herbs & add them when I get there? Please help.

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