I see that you can go about this one of three ways: 1)Meet with him alone and talk it over with him, and make sure that he knows that it is not romantic and that you are just concerned about him. 2)You can just distance yourself from him, for knowing about you and your new man is depressing for him, so don't let him know anything at all about you two. 3) Take him to a pastor and tell him to discuss it with him, for pastoral counseling is free, and shrinks cost too much. Also, shrinks carry the baggage of all the people who need them, so they are generally crack pots themselves.

call him and threaten him! tell him if u ever see his sore ass again u will kick him so hard that u get stuck lol jk be honest give him the ugly truth truth might hurt but its the best medicine

He is manipulating you!!! Many of the guys I broke up with say they will do things to themself and pester me with guilt trips and harassing texts and phone calls. Hell, they show up at my door. The thing you need to realize is that you are NOT responsible for other people's happiness. He is acting like a spoiled child who isn't getting what he wants, and as long as you listen to him and interact with him, he will be a bottomless pit. You are also not doing him a favor by continuing contact with him, because as long as you are a crutch in his life, he will just live off the small interactions you have and not move on with his life. Do yourself and your new boyfriend and your old boyfriend a favor and cut ties with your ex!

Don't fall for his garbage. He is using mind games as a ploy to make you feel guilty, most likely to get you to go back to him. It's a dangerous and reckless game. He is not good for you.

Someone elses mental illness is not your problem. Are you a licensed psychologist? He needs to fix his problems first before he engages in any relationship with anyone. He is probably using the "suicide" thing as a way to control you. This sounds cold but if he truly is crazy a suicide is better than a murder-suicide!!

Just tell him the truth. Clear everything up. Then never see him again.

This is officially not your problem anymore. This is clearly a ploy to get you back. Offer to refer him to a mental health clinic. You probably broke up because he was too needy, right? His clinginess will only get worse the more you talk to him, so try to steer clear. Be friendly when you do encounter him, but make sure he knows the boundaries. Try not to be alone with him as he seems a bit unbalanced. If he gets depressed, don't feel guilty. That's exactly what he's trying to do to you.

I know that you asked this question over a year ago, but I felt compelled to respond. A lot of the people's answers on here are quite insensitive and unjust. Yes, there is a very real possibility that he could be manipulating you, but there is also a very real possibility that he is struggling with more issues than you had ever imagined and he is merely trying to reach out for help. Yes, it is true that you can't make someone else happy by submitting to their will if it causes you unhappiness, and you cannot be responsible for someone else's happiness, but to merely dismiss him as using this as a ploy to manipulate you could be devastating in the long run if you choose to turn the other way. What if he really needs help? I'm saying this because I was in a similar position. I was going through a terrible time grieving over the death of my father, an unstable living environment, among other things, and I really needed help. I fell in love with a wonderful guy who was the exact opposite of me, and his presence in my life seemed to make everything much easier for me to bear. It was my mistake to rely on someone else to maintain my own sense of happiness, but to make a long story short, I drained him over the course of a year-and-a-half relationship, and he broke up with me. I was terribly distraught, and I had already been walking a dangerous line being suicidal from all of the other misfortune in my life, that him breaking up with me sent me over the edge. I attempted suicide twice in the course of less than two months, and it was a dark, dark period of my life. My ex-boyfriend and I maintained contact the first month after we broke up, and I shared with him my anguish, but he didn't take me seriously. We had discussed on many occasions the demons that were plaguing me long before our relationship had ended, but when the time came and I needed him to be there for me as a friend, he resorted to berating me and calling me names and tearing me down. It was devastating. So I'm just saying that I've been where your ex has been, and I wasn't trying to manipulate anyone. A suicidal person is, if they are genuine in their feelings, in immense pain and they need professional help. They need a friend. They need someone who will be there for them. If it is too much for you to bear, then just see to it that the next time he talks about killing himself, call someone to go and help him. Then you can rest at ease at least knowing that you did what you could to be of assistance. It may not be your responsibility, but sometimes doing more than what is expected of you is enough to make a world of a difference in someone else's life.