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Guys this is really serious and the girl’s already loosing her mind!

This is a very unbelievable, yet 100% true story of a friend of mine. I put this up here for two reasons:
1st: I don’t know how to help her or what she needs exactly at this time so I’m hoping that you can help me on this.
2nd: So that when you read this you’ll realize, no matter how many problems you have, that someone is in more pain than you are, and regain lost faith (and I don’t mean that religiously, just like faith in humanity or in a better tomorrow)

So, here we go:

The girl I’m talking about is a 15-year-old that I’ve gone to school with since like 10 years.
She lost both of her parents by the age of nine. Both to cancer. Which is weird because they’ve never had a case of cancer in the family before.
She had 2 stepsisters, both from a different father, so none of them were really sisters, however, the oldest one, 30-years-old offered to take care of little Malak (that’s my friend’s name) and raised her all alone from the money she made. They lived in their parents’ house, so there weren’t any problems, except that Malak was really psychologically damaged. She didn’t trust anyone since her mother, who was by the way her best friend, dies and left her alone with her stepsister who she barely knew.
However, Malak grew up to like her and started to regain trust in people who were formerly her best friends and tried as hard as she could, to have a normal life.
Then, last week, Dina (Malak’s stepsister) flew to Lebanon for a convention and Malak lived with a friend of hers for the week. Dina was scheduled to return last Wednesday. Her plane landed safely in Cairo (we all live in Alexandria) so she took the bus to Alexandria. On her way she called Malak to tell her that she will be home soon and asked her wheather she would like her to pick her up from school. Malak refused and told her to rest until she came home. What neither of them knew was that that would be the last time to hear eachother’s voices. The bus crashed and all passengers, including Dina, died. The police called school and told them to tell Malak.
Malak, hearing this, first broke down in tears, hysterically crying and screaming that this is all a lie and that she couldn’t have possibly just lost the last person she concidered family at this age. 3 Minutes later she suddenly stopped and said that she wanted to continue the lesson. She went to class, sat down, opened her book and demanded that the teacher would go on. She didn’t want to talk or do anything until the rest of the school day. Her remaining stepsister, Alia, had rushed to her in the meanwhile, but Malak didn’t care. She would just sit there staring into space not wanting to talk or do anything whatsoever.
A bit later, she saw a girl walking by with a tray of cookies that the nuns at school had just freshly baked. The girl offered her one and placed the tray beside her. Malak asked the girl wheather she could leave her alone for a while. A couple of minutes later I went upstairs to check up on her and she was sitting there talking to the tray of cookies. The had given every cookie a name and was telling them what she had done in the previous couple of days and yes, even telling them jokes and asking how they have been.
Later at the same day we went to Dina’s funeral and the memorial service (in Egypt, they both have to be in same day that the person had died on) and Malak was just laughing at things that got others choked up crying and she didn’t wanna even say goodbye to her before she got buried.
The day after that, she was at her best friend’s so I went to check on her, she greeted me normally and started asking me how I’ve been and what we had done in school that day, but all of a sudden she would stop and laugh like she never did before. I could go on and on, but it’s just the same : denial, laughter and ignoring the whole thing. She doesnt wanna cry or scream or do anything else.
She doesn’t wanna think about where she’s gonna live (she could live at Alia’s, but they don’t come along that well, or at her uncle, who she hates).
She doesn’t wanna talk about it.
And I just don’t know how to help her. The girl lost everything. Her family, her house, all of the things she grew up to have, her sanity (how it appears to be) and her last bit of hope to have a normal life.

So I ask you all to pray for Malak and help me figure out how to help her. do you have any idea what to do??
I would be really grateful.

R.I.P Dina

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