My friend is in trouble.

[Fickle Iris]

One of my friends was saying on her tumblr today that she was in a downward spiral, and feeling the urge to self harm again- she said it in a much more cryptic poetic way, but that's the basis.

I used to cut and bruise, and sit there and pick at myself for hours- its been 243 days since I have done anything to myself, and I'll be damned if I ever do it again. I know how to stop myself, I sought help, and because I'm an open sort of person its easy for me to go to an adult and admit when I feel in danger of hurting myself again- but my friend is totally different! She is outwardly obnoxious and seems to have no boundaries, but she is SO private about anything serious or heavy it took me months to get it out of her that she occasionally cut.

I am so worried about her, and my instinct is to march her down to student services on Monday with a case of tissues and a duffle bag of chocolate and flowers, but I know she'd just be royally pissed at me and deny ever hurting herself if I told a teacher

Advice?

[BlaineG.]

Hi There,

Do you think that you could talk to your friend and maybe work up to telling her to tell adult about her self harming problem. Here are something you should do.

Form a positive relationship with this person and make them feel comfortable around you. If you develop that kind of relationship where she can come to you and tell you that she is feeling unsafe and then you can try to calm her down and if you can't then you must go to an adult.

You can PM me if you need anything else.


Good Luck.

[Childish Giggle]

Hey there,
As above poster has said, try to convince her. But if that doesn't work then I think you should definitely tell some adult who can help her. But make sure that the adult you tell knows how to react in such situations.