My old best friend slits her wrists?

Question

My old best friend sits next to me in my maths class and suddenly her jumper falls from her wrists and i see like millions of scratches....I was like wat the h**l is that? she tried to lie to me saying that it was her cat but i knew shed been slitting her wrists. Then she told me she has done it many times and i feel like OMG i feel really responsible of helping her and i feel that as her old best friend i should do something more besides just talking and asking her wat the problem is....we know each other really well but she never let me know about her wrists!

Answer 1

OMG tell some one or elas she could really get hurt plez do it now anyone even your mom she neds help now do it plez!!!  

Answer 2

i would suggest just being a good friend to her and maybe telling an adult if she doesnt stop.

Answer 3

Look this is something really serious and she needs help! You need to talk to someone and get her help.  Talk to the counselor at your school they can get her the help that she needs so that she does not do this anymore.  If no one gets her the help that she needs then she could seriously hurt herself, even to the point of her dying.  You need to get her the help that she needs and you can do this in ways that she does not have to know you were the one that told.

Answer 4

i have self harmed myself so i can sort of see from where your friend is at the moment. you do try to keep self-harming to yourself as it's a hard subject to talk to someone about so your friend may not speak to you about it as much as you'd like her to. Self-harming is also very hard to over come and you will always feel the urge to do it again as it takes emotional pain away and replaces it with physical pain which is much easier to deal with. your friend may be having problems, don't have to be big, could just be lads or something silly, as it was for me but you need to tell him to get help, speak to someone she trusts and to find another way to deal with emotional pain cos those cuts will stay forever now, i should know, i have enough scars! and it's horrible cos all through her life now, she will get questioned 'why?' and it's not nice! people look down on you! tell her if she ever feels like doing it, to start writing her emotions down, instead of causing herself pain. tell her to just pinch herself or bite her skin (not hard) and it will leave a mark but will fade within a few hours but sometimes people will only feel calm again if they have seen damage to themselves cos they feel responsible for something that has gone wrong. tell her to try and get help online, a stranger, one she thinks she can trust to talk to cos it is so much easier. just be there for her, she must feel like she is alone on this.

Answer 5

Yeah sometimes we think we may know our friends but we end up finding something that surprises us. Your friend cannot continue cutting its very dangerous especially if she does it vertical. There has to be come reason shes doing this. But you can't stop her alone. You have to tell someone. Because if she gets upset someone has to always be there to make sure she won't hurt herself. Its important that you tell an adult or her parents anyways that can help you can't keep her secret...that wont help her  

Answer 6

there really is nothing more you can do but be there for her

this is something that she has to do herself

cutting is her way of letting people know that she is hurt and needs help

Answer 7

You need to tell a trusted adult.  There is nothing you can do to help her other than that.  She needs professional help.  This is her life on the line and as a friend (by any means) you are responsible for helping her.

Answer 8

I had the same problem.

It depends how self destructive they are, if it is superficial try talking to them..they may just be doing it for attention as sick as that sounds.

but in my case they had deep rooted insanity; which required years of therapy :x



either way dont do nothing.