Help… Suicidal Friend? She Is in a Mental Health Place, She Gets Out Soon and shouldn’t.Doc Won’t Listen 2me?

Question by Heidi G: help… suicidal friend? She is in a mental health place, she gets out soon and shouldn’t.Doc won’t listen 2me?
my friend has lost her mind. she is bipolar and knows not to drink, it really messes with her. Her dad shot her mom about 3 years ago and she still lives with her father. I’m only a teenager, I do not know how to help her. She got drunk the other night with my neighbors and her boyfriend on 2 years whom she just had a miscarriage with 3 months ago broke up with her because she got drunk and cheated on him. Well while she was still drunk he told her that and then she proceeded to cut herself in my bathroom floor.. I didn’t think she was that bad.. she said hey i’m getting in the shower and didn’t come out for a good 45 minutes so i checked and there was blood everywhere, she had been digging at the marks she made on her arms with a fork she took from my neighbors kitchen.. Eventually we pretty much drag her into the car and she tells us as we’re on the way to the hospital she took half a bottle of tylenol 3’s she had left over from having her wisdom teeth cut out 3 weeks ago. SO they pumped her stomache at the hospital and put her in a psych ward for 6 days… She was released and said they just set her up for AA meetings. She went to AA once.. Then after a week got trashed and bought 25 nerve pills and supposedly did them and then smoked a joint all of this in her system at the same time with alcohol and her bipolar meds. We caught her with large ammounts of tylenol on her and she tried to sneak it into my neighbors house for some reason. It was just such an odd behavior, I went to get her to my house so her sister could talk to her, she dropped by to visit. Well, on the way out the neighbors door she just passed out and hit the floor, her sister took her to the store, she passed out getting out of the car. So we took her back to the hospital… They checked her heart rate and told us “Keep an eye on that.” And sent her home… I didn’t trust her to be here. When she got those tylenols and took them to the neighbors house, I took a 2 hour nap, that’s it. Two hours alone and she messes up… I can not help her. The regular hospital won’t take her. I signed her into a supposed long term care facility for SERIOUS psyciatric evaluations and some serious rehab. It’s for people who are depressed, suicidal, bipolar, or drug/alcohol addicted… SHE IS ALL OF THESE THINGS. She called me today to say she’d be out in a week. She may be lying, but still. WHAT am I going to do to be a friend and try to help her at this point, I feel I’ve ran out of choices here and I don’t know where else to turn to for someone to help her. She has major issues. She’s co-dependant and needs help so she can get over all of this and move on with her life, but when the people who are supposed to help don’t seem to want to help… What the heck do you do…???

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Answer by Bullfrog21
Heidi some people are better avoided. This is the case here.
That may seem harsh but it is all you can do. If you avoid this friend and encourage her to attent AA meetings she might find help. If you try to be involved you will only become an enabler and make her problem worse. I know as a teen you may not understand that but I assure you it is so. Stay away from this person until she actually straightens her life out if she ever does.

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