Hi everyone!
I hate to just pop in here and ask for something right off the bat, but, here I go.
This is a very brief description of the situation I'm in: I have a friend (yes, really asking for a friend) who a few weeks ago woke up to her s/o....dead. He overdosed on heroin while she slept. Naturally she is really struggling with this, but her life circumstances are set up in a way that she is trapped in a highly toxic environment that she has absolutely no chance to heal in. Nor can she get out due to many facets of control by her INSANE "parents". She is to the point of pure hopelessness. She told me tonight that she is at high risk of relapse with the intention of attempting to end her life. I've done everything else within my power to help her since her loss, and prior to it, but the things that are out of my control are the same things leading her to want to do it. I don't know what else to do. No one she knows can relate to her, and I earnestly believe that if I could find...anyone...who has gone through this specific event that maybe I could finally help her. If anyone can point me to a thread, a person, a site, anything, anything, anything...please. Trying to find peer help online seems like it might be a better resource than anything else I have found thus far. Also, should I contact her appointed therapist at the clinic she's attending?
I will be here waiting anxiously for any response.
Thanks, strangers.
Sylens
I hate to just pop in here and ask for something right off the bat, but, here I go.
This is a very brief description of the situation I'm in: I have a friend (yes, really asking for a friend) who a few weeks ago woke up to her s/o....dead. He overdosed on heroin while she slept. Naturally she is really struggling with this, but her life circumstances are set up in a way that she is trapped in a highly toxic environment that she has absolutely no chance to heal in. Nor can she get out due to many facets of control by her INSANE "parents". She is to the point of pure hopelessness. She told me tonight that she is at high risk of relapse with the intention of attempting to end her life. I've done everything else within my power to help her since her loss, and prior to it, but the things that are out of my control are the same things leading her to want to do it. I don't know what else to do. No one she knows can relate to her, and I earnestly believe that if I could find...anyone...who has gone through this specific event that maybe I could finally help her. If anyone can point me to a thread, a person, a site, anything, anything, anything...please. Trying to find peer help online seems like it might be a better resource than anything else I have found thus far. Also, should I contact her appointed therapist at the clinic she's attending?
I will be here waiting anxiously for any response.
Thanks, strangers.
Sylens