Helping a friend
I was best friends with (let's just call her jacy) for about for about 5 years but we started drifting apart because she preferred hanging with her boyfriend over me and she found some new friends that she liked better. I was hurt by this to start off with but then I got over it and found some new friends to get close with. Then jacy's new friends weren't really working out for her and she tried to force herself back onto me and she started getting jealous because I still had other friends other than her. She then started getting depression and I never noticed it and she never spoke to me about it and then one night she told me she was depressed and it was my fault. So I was really trying to juggle her mental health and my own. So we are back to being friends but not as close as we used to be but last week her brother was admitted into hospital with a really bad sickness and she never told me and I found out through other friends. What can I do to help her because it's really hard in her?
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It's great that you want to help your friend out. 🙂 The most important thing is that you take care of yourself first. It can be hard to support someone else if you don't feel well yourself. Do you know if your friend has anyone she can talk to about the things she's dealing with? Having someone to listen can be a wonderful thing, another thing is being there for her. What do you think?
she has said that she goes to therapy sometimes and her family is really supportive and I talked with my mum and she thinks I have done all I can now, all I can do is wait for her to need my help and then I will help her. thanks so much for replying I was in a bit of a rough spot yesterday and really was looking to get things of my chest in a safe environment. by safe I mean somewhere where rumours and stuff cant fly around. so thank you.
RO is definitely a safe place, I'm glad that we could help you 🙂
