What do you do when you find out your best friend started cutting themselves?
10 Answers to "What do you do when you find out your best friend started cutting themselves?"
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He needs profesional help.My nephew broke up with his first girlfriend and baricaded himself in his mom's trailer and threatened to commit siuside, he had an ice pick and cut rhe side of his face from ear to chin and cut a + on his cheek, the police were called and they said if he didnt come out on his own, they would use the taser on him, he did what they wanted, and rhey took him to the hospital he was on lock down for 72 hours, he is a lot better now. He knows life is worth liveing.
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Just try to be there for them.
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tell her parents
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I did...I'm close with his family enough that I have her numberLike (1)
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Tell her that you will be there with her when she tells her mother. She must tell parents in order to get help.
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You need to tell ur counselor at school. Immediately! He may not like you for a short while but in the end when he gets things straight in his mind, he will never forget how much you cared about him. Don't even think about it twice, no matter how well he appears to have recovered. Something is bothering him deeply, most likely you have no idea about. Good luck
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I did and they talked to him with me there...he is like family to me and he understands my part
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Good. Just listening is a really marvelous thing. Try not giving any advice or what you would do. That can backfire. Best to just tell em "I don't know what I would do". Good luck.
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Have you talked with them about it? Have you talked with your parents about it? If you do not trust talking about it with your parents is there an adult you do trust?
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I told his older sister because we talk sometimes
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Try to explain to them that there are more positive ways to take control. And encourage them to address the problems that make them feel helpless.
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Be a friend. Get to know her. Find out what she likes. Find interests that make her happy. But most of all, begin to explain that dealing with unhappiness means finding those other things to focus your time. Dwelling on the negative just feeds the fire. Dwell on the positive, the fun, the inspirational. But that takes team work. Are you ready to be that team?
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It's a boy but I talk to him every night and let him know I'm here and I wrote on his arm in permanent marker that I love him so every time he goes to do it he sees it and knows he has someone
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That's great, but don't let cutting be the topic that keeps you together. Find a common theme, whether it's music, movies, bikes, swimming, etc. and spend lots of time on that positive subject.
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You try to be there for them never leave then because that makes them cut more. My friends left so i started cutting more. Trust me
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It's my bf and he said he'll stop just I can't leave and I promised I wouldn't
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Yeah dont leave. And even if u dont understand it just be there for him. Thats all anyone ever wants. Just to have someone be there
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Posted by Caithe 1 Feb 10th, 2013 at 6:24PM
There are so many reasons a person can take to self harming, it can be very difficult understand why they are doing it. It can be done as a release for emotions that are just too much for them to cope with, and the act of self harming provides them with that release. It can be because they feel they deserve it, and they have such a low view of themselves.
You need to let him talk to you when -he- is ready, calmly tell him he can talk to you. But don't push it. You need to know whats going on in his life, and whats happened and what he was feeling before he decides to hurt himself. It's those feelings and what happened before are the trigger of sorts. If you can, get him to talk to a doctor about his mental health, because they will be able to provide so much more help.
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