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My friend tried to commit suicide the other day. I have questions about how to handle this.
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She has some deep issues as a result of childhood trauma. She called me and said she was taking all of her muscle relaxers or something like that. So I called 911 and they told me that somebody else had already called and help was on the way.

This is her second suicide attempt in a year. This strikes me as a cry for help. I think if she was really serious she would have not called first.

Now I think the root cause of her trauma is that she is a child of an addict. She was neglected as a child and it really just kind of messed her up for a long time. Because of this I'm thinking that I might draw a line in the sand and say if we're going to continue to be friends you need to go to meetings / support groups for adult children of addicts.

I really think that if she doesn't attempt to get some sort of help she's going to kill herself and frankly I don't want to be here for that because I've only known her for about 3 months. Like maybe it's callous but maybe I can prompt her to actually change her behavior or her thinking about the abuse that she suffered as a child?

Is it unreasonable to make that kind of ultimatum? I have been trying to talk her into it for months now. I've been trying to get her to go to therapy. I routinely remind her to take her meds. Trying to get her to drink less (she is an alcoholic, probably no surprise).

In case you are wondering I have no designs on a relationship with this woman. She is not relationship material for anyone at this time.

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