I recently met a girl who transferred to my school from a different state, she told me that it is really hard to find someone she trusts to talk to but she had found trust in me. She has been telling me EVERYTHING. She started off by telling me that she has been sexually active (she is in 10th grade) and then just yesterday she told me that she is anorexic, has self harmed, and has even been hospitalized for being suicidal. I always listen to her and give her the best advice I can give because I cannot relate to her at all. I have never even felt depressed before this stuff is all new. My school has always been saying how there are so many people out there doing these things but it has never hit me until now, this is so real. I just don’t know what to do, I don’t really want to talk to the health and wellness counselor at school because she is going to ask me her name and if I give it to her I lose all of the trust my friend has given me, but at the same time there is no way I can sit there and do nothing. She needs my help but I just don’t know what to do.
