Well, i've got this friend, she's 16 now, we've been friends for almost three years now, and i've noticed some major changes over the past two years, her parents are getting a divorce, and threw the past two years her parents have had some major fights, physical and verbal which i know has affected her, her mother has bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, her mother is addicted to alcohol and her mother has attempted siucide four times and everytime my friend was with her mother and the last siucide affected her a lot, it's like she died, inside. She started drinking at 13 and smoking at 14 and started smoking weed at 15, she also did cocaine for the first time at 15 and have done so a lot more. She started using ecstacy when she turned 16 and a lot of painkillers, she also huffs gas and other substances and now smokes weed almost daily and still does a lot of painkillers, she's also done acid. Although her mother caught her with weed and ecstacy, she hasnt stopped. She also cuts herself, i know she's not seeking attention cause she hides it. She started cutting at 13 and now the cuts are big and she seems to be cutting everyday. She told me she started Bulimia when she was 15, but said she stopped and she has lost a lot of weight. The other night she was so hyper active, jumping around, she talked fast and after a while she couldnt speak normally, she told me her brain works too fast and then she's unable to speak normally cause she thinks of many things at once. She was like this for about a week, but only had the hyperness a few times and she becomes either extremely happy or very angry and when she becomes angry she hits things and break things, she also mentioned that she feels high and not herself, she said she's terrified of herself cause she cant control it. But after that she became dead again, zombie like, she's also hyper sensitive. She also said she thinks of suicide a lot, almost everyday and she's attempted siucide when she was 13. In the past she wanted to run away from home, but never did. she told me she wrote her parents a letter, asking them for help, but they said she should snap out of it and that really screwed her up. She's my best friend and i would really like to know how to help. Her brother also has bipolar disorder, his 5 years older than her, and i was wondering if she has bipolar disorder as well, since it's genetic? cause i know normal people dont behave like this. any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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