As the title stated, this post isn’t about myself but my partner in question who suffers from persistent depression disorder.

A few things to get out of the way, this is a long distance relationship that is quite far.

We’re both minors with myself being 17 and him being 16.

With that out of the way, today has been a difficult evening as he confessed he’s harmed himself and is having trouble with his urges. This conversation continued with him explaining that he’s suicidal and doesn’t want my support and basically telling me he’s a burden and I should get rid of him. To the best of my abilities and in the heat of the moment I tried to tell him my stance and my experience with people in my life killing themselves and ultimately he explained how keeping people who’re mentally unwell alive is only making them more miserable, and he doesn’t blame me for holding onto hope.

It’s been 2 hours since things died down and he presumably went to bed. But honestly I’m not sure what to do but keep fighting as I know deep down inside if anything happens to him. I’ll never be the same.

TLDR, I’m just looking for advice and some perspectives.