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Toxic Friends
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Alright. So, I have this really nice friend that I’ve known since second grade. I love her to bits, but the thing is that she wants me to call her and text her everyday and I have my own things to do. If I don’t text her then she spams me saying that she’s going to kill herself, that she’s depressed, and that she’s going to cut herself. If I don’t call her then she ends up telling her parents and then her parents get mad at me. So, whenever I do FaceTime her, she puts me with her parents and her parents start asking me, “Why don’t you call (insert her name here)? She gets really sad.” This friend is always relying on me and I’m not a therapist. She’s really toxic, and I really want to leave her, but how can I say it to her? I love her but she can really get on my nerves and whenever she threatens to kill herself I have no choice but to help her because I’m scared that she is. She once cut herself and that scared me. What am I supposed to do?
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Firstly I'd speak to your parents or a teacher if possible and explain what you've explained to us. It's nice to be nice but some people are toxic and attention seeking and as you say you are not a therapist, and what she is doing is manipulative and wrong. It's not possible to genuinely support someone who is controlling you, so you have to either break free...
19:52 Sun 07th Apr 2019
Firstly I'd speak to your parents or a teacher if possible and explain what you've explained to us. It's nice to be nice but some people are toxic and attention seeking and as you say you are not a therapist, and what she is doing is manipulative and wrong. It's not possible to genuinely support someone who is controlling you, so you have to either break free completely or set firm boundaries and stick to them, but certainly her parents are behaving appallingly putting this onto you, they need to be helping her find a way out of this toxic behaviour and finding out why she is so unhappy as to engage in it in the first place. x
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