My friend wants to break her arm?!
Question: My friend Amy self harms she said she is tired of just cutting. She wants something more to feel "better". What can I do?
Answers: My friend Amy self harms she said she is tired of just cutting. She wants something more to feel "better". What can I do?
Self-mutilators turn their anger(sadness, pain) inward (toward themselves). They have no way of coping with their pain, they used pain as a distraction, a way of feeling without having to actually confront what's bothering them. They have so much built up and no way of appropriately expressing it they turn against themselves and feel pain as a release. Your friend is in serious trouble. She needs help from a therapist/psychiatrist. Im convinced she may need medication. Whatever you do DO NOT assist her in self-destruction! I recommend the book "Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation" by Steven Levenkron. Perhaps tell her parents, maybe they can help get her to see a therapist. For her own health, its very possible she could slip and do something so destructive, its irreversible.
if i were you i would call a psychiatric center its for the better before she harms herself soo bad she wont beable to do any thing...
Take her to a psychiatrist she NEEDS help.
I would recommend reaching out and getting help for her before it is too late.
She needs professional help, there is nothing you yourself can do to help her except help her to find help.
She needs real help right now. Braking your bones is NOT normal. Call someone.
I would see if she would be interested in counseling. Because she's hurting herself doesn't mean she's suicidal (it doesn't mean that she's not either) but it means that there's something she needs to be dealing with that she doesn't know how to, other than causing herself physical pain. If she doesn't want to try counseling have her try something else when she thinks about hurting herself...like writing or walking/running, painting. What ever she likes to do besides hurting herself. I highly suggest a good councilor though, someone who understands the purpose of self harm. But if she is really going to hurt herself badly or ever talks about killing herself, tell someone right away even if she tells you not to.
There is nothing you can do, but I know that you care for your friend so help her find a professional person to talk to. This is a serious situation but it's past what a good friend is able to do. It's time to get a professional mental health care person involved.