A Friend in pretty bad shape. Get out the rosaries.
PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2013 6:51 am
I got this email from a friend, and it seemed urgent. I asked her permission before posting it here.
I just wanted to ask you for some *really, really hard* prayers right now. One of my friends tried to hang herself from a tree in her backyard last night. This is her 15th suicide attempt and she's almost fully succeeded a few times before, but her mom has always found her in time.
I've known this girl since I was 10yrs., and she is one of the best people I know. She's a really *good* kid, she's just trying to find where she fits in. She was adopted when she was a baby, and her dad died unexpectedly from a heart problem when she was little. Her mom didn't take it well and has been living a really hard life. Her mom's really always been one of those parents that will lecture/yell at/embarrass her in front of other people (she's done it in front of me countless times), and go *way* overboard when she screws up at all, and that hasn't exactly helped with the whole situation. And when you talk to each of them separately, they're both trying *really* hard to do the right thing for the other - they just don't "get it".
Everything was going okay for a long time, but in the last 4-ish years, everything has just seemed to continuously go downhill. We found out that she's been doing drugs for a long time (Heroine, Cocaine . . . ), drinking with "friends", failing in school, she's "decided" that she's a lesbian and her mom has been letting her "girlfriend" live with her in their house, and she's been really struggling with depression and has been in and out of the psych wards at Children's, St. Peter's, and some other places for awhile.
But you know, we know her really well, and we can totally tell that there's still hope. You can see that depending on what group she's in, a flip switches and she goes right back to the kid she used to be, she's so sweet and respectful to everyone around her, and she still *wants* to be good. Shewas over at the house today and she said that she knows no one cares about her or what happens to her or what she does, so she does anything to fit in *somewhere*. She said it was actually really hard being here because all the girlfriends were over and she was watching them and seeing how happy they were, and she really wished she had "it". She wished she could just be the "good kid" and have a loving/happy family, someone to care for her, something to be happy about, something to live for, and not have to always be trying to change what/who she is to please other people.
There's still a bit of a light in her, and we've just *got* to storm Heaven for her because I/we *really* think there's still a chance for her to turn back the other way.
So if you could just kinda keep her in the back of your mind and pull her out now and again it would mean *so* much!
I just wanted to ask you for some *really, really hard* prayers right now. One of my friends tried to hang herself from a tree in her backyard last night. This is her 15th suicide attempt and she's almost fully succeeded a few times before, but her mom has always found her in time.
I've known this girl since I was 10yrs., and she is one of the best people I know. She's a really *good* kid, she's just trying to find where she fits in. She was adopted when she was a baby, and her dad died unexpectedly from a heart problem when she was little. Her mom didn't take it well and has been living a really hard life. Her mom's really always been one of those parents that will lecture/yell at/embarrass her in front of other people (she's done it in front of me countless times), and go *way* overboard when she screws up at all, and that hasn't exactly helped with the whole situation. And when you talk to each of them separately, they're both trying *really* hard to do the right thing for the other - they just don't "get it".
Everything was going okay for a long time, but in the last 4-ish years, everything has just seemed to continuously go downhill. We found out that she's been doing drugs for a long time (Heroine, Cocaine . . . ), drinking with "friends", failing in school, she's "decided" that she's a lesbian and her mom has been letting her "girlfriend" live with her in their house, and she's been really struggling with depression and has been in and out of the psych wards at Children's, St. Peter's, and some other places for awhile.
But you know, we know her really well, and we can totally tell that there's still hope. You can see that depending on what group she's in, a flip switches and she goes right back to the kid she used to be, she's so sweet and respectful to everyone around her, and she still *wants* to be good. Shewas over at the house today and she said that she knows no one cares about her or what happens to her or what she does, so she does anything to fit in *somewhere*. She said it was actually really hard being here because all the girlfriends were over and she was watching them and seeing how happy they were, and she really wished she had "it". She wished she could just be the "good kid" and have a loving/happy family, someone to care for her, something to be happy about, something to live for, and not have to always be trying to change what/who she is to please other people.
There's still a bit of a light in her, and we've just *got* to storm Heaven for her because I/we *really* think there's still a chance for her to turn back the other way.
So if you could just kinda keep her in the back of your mind and pull her out now and again it would mean *so* much!