What To Do If Your Friend Is Cutting

Camila Farah

My best friend cut me off she says to a mutual friend because she didn t like a 2 sentence text i wrote about my own life. Fortunately i was already at a point where i was able to let people go who were not good for me. I ve had trouble with depression and self harm and i ve never been particularly grateful when my parents stepped into the picture but it has always turned out far better with them taking control of the situation than me trying to handle.

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Pray for healing for your friend and pray for the restoration of the friendship if it is god s will.

You would rather have your friend alive and mad than dead. Suggest doing rigorous exercise such as running dancing aerobics swimming tennis or kickboxing. As long as you are burdened by the broken friendship continue to pray about it giving it over to the lord. When you cut and when you are helping someone who cuts it is important to keep the behaviors in perspective to realize that you aren t alone and to find support from other people who are facing the same issues.

My daughter doesn t want me to tell her friend s mother because she is afraid that her friend will be furious with her. If someone doesn t talk to you about what s happening it doesn t mean you re not helping. To help calm their mind they can also try yoga meditation or tai chi. Being the person who they can feel normal around and who doesn t treat them differently might be exactly what they re looking for.

Go to see email or call your school counselor if you in middle or high school. Please tell the counselor that you have struggled with what to do but you are in fear of your friend s life. It might not be fun for your friend but anything her strict parents might do is way better than her continuing to harm herself especially in the long run. My daughter told me that her friend is cutting.

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Offer to join your friend and exercise together. Then tell an adult in a position to help like your parents a school psychologist or counselor or a teacher or coach your friend is close to. And it s important that you understand enough about self injury to make sure you 1 make sure you take care of yourself and your own emotions through this and 2 have a list of resources that you can point your friend to. These can provide an outlet for all of their sadness aggression or unhealthy emotion that leads to cutting.

Her friend made her promise not to tell anyone. I feel bad for my daughter but i think i have to tell the friend s mother. If your friend asks you to keep the cutting a secret say that you aren t sure you can because you care. Tell your friend that he or she deserves to feel better.

Pray that the person will make contact with you and restore the relationship if possible. Sometimes you can support a friend by being a distraction from their problem. And i realized quickly she was not talking to me so i stopped as well. Cutting self harm means something is gravely wrong in your friend s life.