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can you tell them how much it hurt you to see them do that to themselfs?

i tried a few times, but it kept getting worse… i’m just so afraid they’ll start agian…

do you know why they did it? i mean, do you know of any reason they were depressed?

for both of them it was sort of their families… different issues for each (one has sisters with eating disorders, one was ‘alienated in their own home’) but they just started one day, together…they’re really good friends, and then it got compulsory and it took them two years to stop

I’m so sorry that you got hurt. If you were in my country i’d come to visit you and make sure you were ok. It’s not fun to be around people with problems like that.

I think that if you’re not happy, it’s pointless hanging around them because that sadness will work its way out of you anyway and they’ll see it, and they’ll feed of it and might self harm again, so maybe it’s in both parties interests to part ways and you move upwards and onwards?

thank you and maybe you’re right, it probably isn’t possible to try to go back to something normal with them anymore.
truly, thank you so much.

just shout when you need