Yes I explained to him that the alcohol is a depressant, and being a recovering alcoholic, I'm very aware of the danger. I really don't know the magnitude of his cry for help. If it was just him in a bad mood while drunk, I don't want to alert the family and make a mountain over a mole hill. This isn't the first time someone alerted me to feeling suicidal while intoxicated. When I alerted her son, I encountered so much backlash, that it angered me for trying to help her. In this situation he said he was going to bed. So my plan was to message him in the morning, but I will feel terrible if he does something. Part of me is angry that he wanted to console in me, as selfish as that sounds, due to problems in my own life right now, I really don't need the burden of guilt if a friend kills himself, and I didn't act. This has my emotions out of wack at the moment.