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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 18:59:35

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Since she can't go just about anyplace for help what she really needs is someone who will talk to her and more important listen. Maybe you could be that someone. Ask her if she would feel comfortable talking to her, you won't judge, or say anything to anyone else unless suicide is involved.

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Tell and adult, someone you trust, a counselor, a teacher, or her parents. This is important. If it's serious enough, you shouldn't be concerned about your friendship with her, you should be worried about her health. She may not thank you now, but in the long run, you will help her more than you will know.

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Did you approach her about it?

Ask her why she does this. Bring her to a psychiatrist or a counselor.

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You can't personally help her. She needs professional help. Please don't feel that you are "squealing on her" if you tell her mom or the school nurse. She is in alot of emotional pain and is cutting herself to feel the pain of cutting and not the pain in her mind. Not eating all goes with it. She needs to be on meds that makes her brain right and talk to professionals that she can relate and unload to. Please tell someone who can lead her in the right direction before she really hurts herself. You are a good friend. She may not like that you are gonna tell someone, but remember, you are a good friend and good friends help each other.

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Know that there were voices in my past that told me that I had nothing to offer!, I was nothing!, God and Jesus Didn't value me and maybe you should think about what life would be like if you weren't in it because it would be better for everyone!, because this world would be better without you!....I tell you sister! If these are the voices your best friend hears!? Ignore these kind of voices, this second! because this is the deceiver Satan and his legion of evil spirits, who is the father of all lies! I don't know what the voices in her mind are holding against her? Maybe she trying to end the pain from all the lies in her mind by trying to cut herself! Hoping that in cutting herself your pain will stop!? I would encourage your best friend that this is not the answer to her life! DON'T LET HER DARE TRY TO TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT! The Fact is you and her are valued, your life does have a purpose and you are very much loved! I too dealt with depression and the one thing that really turned my life around was: 1. Knowing that God and Jesus Loved me and I was valued! 2. Knowing I had people on my side at church, in my social life and in my family that cared about me! and 3. I had to get myself out of the atmosphere that I was in! If all you do is stay in the darkness thinking about how it is never going to get better and think why life is not worth living. But, if you build a personal relationship again with other people and most importantly a relationship with God! Then you will see yourself back with a renewed joy! I would not be telling you this if I had not experienced what your best friend is feeling for myself! Know God loves her, and He wants to come into her life and give her a joy and peace that she could never experience in any other way. Jesus said, "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you" John 14:27. She needs to know: >>God created her, and God loves Her!. His only Son, Jesus Christ, loves Her so much that he gave His life on the cross so she could be saved and break free from in perfectness, sin and this depression to become a child of God. She needs to give Jesus all your worries and burdens. When you accept Jesus Christ into your life, something wonderful and supernatural happens. God Himself comes to dwell within you! You become part of His family, and you can know the joy of His presence every day. Go and Pray for your best friend but before you do that ask her to tell you what all the voices she hears in her mind are saying and each time she tells you something negative that voices are saying tell her that the voices she hears are lying! Immediately,Renounce the lie in Jesus Name and tell her that God and Jesus Love her and tell her to tell the voices in her mind to GO IN JESUS NAME! Right now, I encourage you to invite Jesus into your heart. I don't know what you believe or if you know God or Jesus but I would encourage you to start for your best friend's sake! I will be praying for you and your best friend because I was too once where your best friend is right now and the only way am still alive is because my faith in Jesus saved me and he showed me the better life I could be living if only I put my faith and trust in Him. I encourage you to read a bible and then read it to your best friend. Start with the gospel of John! There you will find a story of a man named John the Baptist that paved the way for another man named Jesus that loves you and will bring your best friend guidance and hope to her life, if you and your best friend only look to him and follow him for your life's answers instead of yourself! I can't stress enough how I know what your best friend is going though right now and she really needs a change of atmosphere in her life, get her out of the darkness and try to get her to meet new people! A lot of Church's have small groups, special support groups,bible study and some even have single groups. So, I would encourage you and your best friend to do that because it wasn't till I started putting Jesus first before myself that my life started to get better, I had a whole new image of myself and I started to see how much I was really loved and valued in God's eyes. You and your best friend are so loved! You and your best friend have so much to offer! I leave you with a passage from the bible that started to pull me out of the darkness and into the light: Tell this one to your best friend for starters: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make all your paths straight. Prov. 3:5-6. Go to Jesus in prayer and then go to your best friend and pray for her this way! Ask Jesus to lead your heart so you may trust him that everything will be all right and the next step you take will be right in line with what he wants for you in life, and what life is suppose to be like in serving him! In Jesus Name Amen

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You need to tell someone that you trust. Cutting is a serious disease that requires medication and therapy. Usually cutting is a precursor symptom to suicide. It is not an option not to tell. Even if she hated you now, it is better.

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Nothing. Just be her friend and hope she grows out of it or gets help when she's older since no one will help her now. Cutting is a symptom of something more serious going on like her eating disorder or depression.

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