My friend's been talking about suicide, depression, and cutting recently... !
Question: We aren't really close friends, but apparently he does trust me more than a lot of other people at our school (that's what he told me anyway).
In the past week or two though, he's been asking me about cutting (he knows that I've done it before-bad idea) and then the other day (it was thursday, I think) we were IMing each other and he said "if I'm not at school tomorrow, that means I've killed myself, ok?" Of course, I tried my best to talk him out of it, and either someone else did it, I succeeded in convincing him not to kill himself, or he wasn't being serious because he was at school the next day.
But this is really making me nervous. I remember how messed up my mind was back when I was constantly cutting and trying to kill myself. I'm scared that it'll happen to him too.
Should I tell anyone? I've asked my mom about it too, so an adult does know. But she doesn't know him, his name, or his parents.
Answers: Go tell the school Psych. and tell her- She can call his parents but tell her not to use your name-people that do this sometimes succeed even when they really didn't mean to.