Need ATOT's advice

[EyeMWing]

This should be interesting....

Well, here's the deal. This chick in my IRC channel (Don't ask why she's there, she's neither computer crazy, car crazy nor a drug user, so she doesn't fit in with any of us) has this habit of taking sharp objects to her flesh and dragging them across. "Cutting" as she calls it. Her mother doesn't care much (In fact, her mother causes it a lot of the time. The woman had a freaking stealth marriage. Went out, got married and didn't even tell the kid until just now, a freaking month after the fact. Does she have ANY fvcking idea what that does to a person?)

Together, we on IRC have been able to pool the following information (most of it coming from me, since she's damn near kept me alive over the past month, and that's why she confided this in me)

-Cell phone number
-Her mother's cell phone number is one off hers, not sure which direction
-Home phone
-Name, address, etc.
-School
-School address, phone, etc.
-Contact information for business operated by her uncle (He's the sole employee)
-Boyfriend's screenname
-Deadbeat father

I know I should keep my nose out of this, but this truly disturbs me and I couldn't live with myself if I left it alone. I'd rather destroy our friendship by doing somthing than leave it alone.

I've begged with her to stop. She tells me she "can't" and that she needs meds or somthing.
Her boyfriend doesn't like it, but is too much of a doormat to step up and do somthing about it on his own.

What the hell do I do?

 

[FoBoT]

report it to her school , they should report it to the state/child protective services that should then investigate

 

[Jfrag Teh Foul]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
report it to her school , they should report it to the state/child protective services that should then investigate

 

[Kadarin]

I know you don't want to hear this, but personally, I'd recommend staying out of it.

 

[alkemyst]

If she's cutting herself, the only thing you will accomplish remotely is increasing her frequency.

She needs counselling, sounds like her relationship with her B/F is just like her's with her mother....

Saying that you are pooling info with a bunch of possible asshats on a IRC channel is probably the worst idea yet. All it's going to do is take one of the puppies gagging for attention to 'pretend' to be another from the room. More than likely she trusted certain bits and pieces of info with certain people for a reason.

This is going to become a downward spiral that probably causes only harm.


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[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
If she's cutting herself, the only thing you will accomplish remotely is increasing her frequency.

She needs counselling, sounds like her relationship with her B/F is just like her's with her mother....

Saying that you are pooling info with a bunch of possible asshats on a IRC channel is probably the worst idea yet. All it's going to do is take one of the puppies gagging for attention to 'pretend' to be another from the room. More than likely she trusted certain bits and pieces of info with certain people for a reason.

This is going to become a downward spiral that probably causes only harm.


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I gave nothing away, I'm EyeMWing, not EyeMObscenelyStupid. The rest of the gimps don't even know what I was talking about. They just googled for me like good broadband-equipped stoners.

At any rate, I havn't tried slapping around the male yet, it's possible that he's willing to act but too damned stupid to figure out what to do on his own (Hey, I was) so I'll do that before I go for the head and get third parties involved.