What's the best way to halp my friend?

Question:

She has been really unhappy and has had low self confidence for sometime. About a year ago I found out she had been self harming and she has attempted suicide a couple of times.
Since then she has been talking to a councillor and I was under the impression that the self harming had stopped, but I have recently found out that she still gets angry and hurts herself sometimes.
She is a bit more comfortable talking to me now, which I think is good, but she often tells me that she is having dark thoughts and that she doesn't want to 'be here' anymore. This scares me, but I think she is telling me because she wants help, the only thing is, I don't know what I can do.
I would really appreciate any advice, thanks.

Answers:
Encourage her to go see a doctor, tell her you will go with her and even speak on her behalf. She could write the doctor a letter even - just hand it to him when she gets to the appointment.

Also, there's plenty of help available to you as a friend of a self harmer, they will be able to give you advice on how to deal with it. Do a google search on self harm advice or something, then this should lead you to help pages. I dont know where you are based so dont know what links i could send u.

Good on you for supporting her - she's lucky to have a friend like you, but please make sure she gets some help soon.

BE WHAT YOU , ARE A FRIEND , AND TELL HER

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