305: What To Do If Your Friend Is Suicidal
The Jamie Grace Podcast
Jamie Grace
4.9 • 942 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
What should you do when you friend is self harming? When your friend is suicidal? What if you want to get them help but you don't want to lose the friendship?
This question comes via DM on Instagram. Thank you guys for sharing your stories with me. @jamiegraceh / instagram
If you want to find resources based on your area, you can visit https://twloha.com/find-help/
These resources are from their website and are all available 24/7:
- Crisis Text Line
Text TWLOHA to 741741 - National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
800-273-8255
For hearing and speech impaired with TTY equipment: 800-799-4889
Español: 888-628-9454 - National Child Abuse Hotline
800-422-4453 - National Domestic Violence Hotline
800-799-7233 - Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)
800-656-4673 - Veterans Crisis Line
800-273-8255 press 1
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends Jamie Grace here, welcome to the Jamie Grace Podcast and thank you so much for listening to it. |
| 0:05.1 | I really appreciate it. |
| 0:06.4 | Thank you so much for sending in your questions via Instagram DM. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm at Jamie Grace H on Instagram and I want to answer this question. |
| 0:15.0 | It's kind of a similar like, well, kind of a common question that I get and so, yeah, I just really want to jump into it because I know that a lot of you guys are dealing with things like this so |
| 0:27.8 | He says hey I was wondering if you'd have any advice on how to deal with a friend who have known for nine years |
| 0:32.0 | I'm really close to her family. |
| 0:33.7 | They're like a second family to me, but me and my friend's friendship has always been off and |
| 0:37.0 | on. I never know if we're good or not or will be good for a month and then she'll go off |
| 0:40.6 | on me and be mad at me for a week and somehow we're okay again. |
| 0:44.2 | And it's been like that for all these years, but these past six months, it's been especially |
| 0:48.4 | hard. |
| 0:49.4 | She told me that she was cutting herself and now it's like everything has gotten 80% worse. She gets mad at me more and more and what's the hardest that she's been telling lies about me to people and I love her like a sister |
| 0:59.1 | And I don't want to walk away from her, but at this point I don't know if I can handle her anymore. I also don't want to walk away from her but at this point I don't know if I can handle her anymore. |
| 1:03.7 | I also don't want to walk away and lose the rest of our family. |
| 1:06.4 | Her mom is like a second mom to me and I don't know if I could bear losing the mom. |
| 1:10.8 | I love you in your podcast so much. You have been such an encouragement to me. |
| 1:14.0 | Yeah, I want to tell you this because the rest of this episode is going to be pretty focused on |
| 1:20.0 | your friend's scenario and the friends because there are so many people out there who are dealing with who have friends who are dealing with anxiety depression |
| 1:31.5 | suicidal thoughts and and you don't know how to handle what your friend is going through. |
| 1:36.3 | And so we're going to be talking about your friend's scenario mostly this episode, but |
| 1:41.0 | E, I want to focus on something that you said really quick. |
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