Friends mental health

LegacyUser

One of my friends has had mental health issues for a while now but it has all come to a head last night.

For years shes had self confidence issues and wouldnt really socialise out of our group of girls without alcohol as in she wouldnt talk to lads without drink on her.A few years back she was raped and has been self harming for a while.Last week she tried to kill herself but once she started getting sick she couldnt go through with it.

Last night she apparently had a mental break,i wasnt there but my friends were.She admitted to all her self destructive behaviour and over the course of 5/6 hours she alternated between hysterical crying and saying she was fine.She kept saying it was her cry for help and that she wanted to die and then moments later would deny ever saying it.
Eventually she agreed to go to a depression clinic that was on this morning but when it came to it refused to go and said she was ok.

We want to help her but have no idea what to do as we cant physically drag her to go see a counceller or to her doctor.It is clear that she needs to though but we cant make her see that.

She saw a school counceller for all of last year who got her to let her parents know what was going on but nothing much was really done about it.From what we can see her mam and dad just brushed it under the carpet.

If anyone has any ideas of what to do now id be really grateful as we are at a loss but know she needs help.

sam34

is she still at school?

if so, or if she is under 18, then i owuld recommend telling her parents of your ocncerns, or tell your parents and get them to talk to her folks.

you and your friends are too young to be dealing with this on your own.