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One of my friends, Amanda, attempted suicide last night by overdosing on her younger sister’s prescription mediation.

I should’ve seen this coming

Her and I had drifted apart over the past few months, even more since she started dating her present boyfriend, who is, frankly a obsessive control freak and verbally abusive towards Amanda and all of her friends, especially me.

He's been pressuring her for the last few months to move in him. Legally at age 17 (from what I understand, at least) you can leave your house if there's a abuse problem with a parent, and he has been trying to convince Amanda that her father was out to rape her, as are all her male friends.

Everyone; her parents, her friends and me have been trying for months to get her to see what a bad relationship it was, and to dump the guy. Her parents called into the school requesting that they weren't allowed to sit together or work together in class, but it never stopped him. She's so bloody shy, and he's so controlling, so she can't do anything without his approval. I've tried talking to her boyfriend time after time, but he doesn’t see it, and flips out violently, spewing verbal diarrhea and threats all over the place.


Which brings us to the suicide attempt.

The last time I talked her, the afternoon of the attempt, I asked her why she wasn't doing her work. Before going out with the before mentioned slime, she had been getting pretty good grades. She told me that she didn't care anymore, and just wanted to fade away.

I never, ever pegged her as a suicidal type.

She’s in the hospital right now; strapped down on a bed and scared out of her mind.

The family and her really needs some prayer right now…

Oh definately! Oh my gosh! *cries* What a swine (her bf)! Oh....that's absolutely horrible. Tell her my prayers are with her constantly! I hope she comes to realize that her life is meaningful and her relationship with that baka isn't. You must help her see that as much as possible! My prayers are with you both!
Love in Christ,
Angel

Ditto what Angel just said! I think "swine" is too kind a word though <_<

Right now she really needs good friends like you. Keep that jerk away from her. She will be in my prayers.

I shall pray for the young lady and her family.

I hope her parents are investigating legal methods of restraining the harmful man from their daughter. I am not a legal expert, but that is an avenue I would investigate if I was a relative. At this point, due to the suicide attempt, her parents probably (from a legal point of view, I am guessing) should have the power of attorney to completely speak for their daughter and keep her within their custody.

Also, please stay heavily involved in her life if you can, and do not allow this predator to be the only influence in her life. If this man tries to attack you, you also have options with the law enforcement authorities.

What I am trying to say is, I see this as a predator trying to intimidate the young lady and everyone around her so he can bring harm to her easily. Do not be intimidated, and do not allow this predator to define the situation. God is on your side. So stand up. Hopefully, one day she will learn from your example.

Finally, for the long-term, I will pray for this predator to hopefully change his ways.... Emphasis on the word hopefully.

It always puzzles me how some people can take pleasure in the pain of others, or be so blind to the truth that they would think themselves to be justified in doing so.

I will pray for you friend, and for her disturbed (hopefuly former) bf to change his ways.

Definitely. How old is the boyfriend?

I'll certainly pray for her, her family, and her boyfriend.

I'll definitely be praying.

I am praying.

How old is the boyfriend?

17 in about two months, but he got held back a year so he's a sophomore. Amanda's my age (17) and a Junior.



Thanks guys, it means the world to me that this turns out right.

That's so sad! What a jerk! I'll definitly be praying!

OHMIGOSH! That's terrible!
I'll pray

::cracks knuckles:: let me at him... (i wish but then that wouldn't be the Christian thing to do).

I will defeintly pray for her and here family and you. Hate to say but also pray for her BF, look slike he has some bad issues that he needs to deal with. Prayer does miraculous things.

Good thing though it was attempted and not she actually did. My advice is to become more involved in this area no more matter what cause what she needs is a friend who cares for her and not a "friend" who wants to control her. Also her family should consider palcing a constraining order on the guy.

Anyways my prayers will be with her and her family.

Shimmy-shaken’ update:


I grabbed Amanda’s younger sister today in the hall after lunch.

Amanda’s doing better, if possible, and in rehab hospital for suicidal teens. She’ll be out in anywhere from between 1-2 weeks if her sessions with the doctors goes well. Their trying to evaluate what caused her to go over the edge.

I asked her why she thought her sister did and, she rather blatantly placed all the blame on the boyfriend. She’s convinced that the boyfriend knew about and even supported Amanda’s attempt.

I probably should’ve asked her about this in a more private place… The boyfriend happened to walk by at this time (he’s been hanging about me and all of Amanda’s friends a lot lately…) and over heard that bit. There… were several words exchanged between the sister and him before he stormed off, I’m really glad it was just that.

Both Amanda and him, the boyfriend, are/were in my 4th hour class, and he attempted to explain his version of the story to me during class today. His side of the story is that Amanda’s sister is spouting lies at the mouth about what happened. He’s holding that he didn’t know anything about the attempt and that it wasn’t about him, but her father. He’s also convinced that the doctors will take Amanda out her parents’ custody because of alleged ‘abuse’.
In addition, he, that lovely, lovely chap he is, told me that he went in to visit Amanda while she was still in the hospital, and slipped her a promise ring. From what I understand Amanda’s refusing to take it off and her father is getting extremely vexed about the entire ordeal. Can't blame him though.

Keep prayin’ guys, I got a bad feeling about this…

I will P-R-A-Y! Poor girl! I don't like like that boyfriend ><#

AAAGHHH!!!! This whole thing just.. INFURIATES ME!

I will definitely keep praying. A lot.

That's truly a sad story. I will pray for Amanda and her family and firends. I also think that we need to pray for her boyfriend. The bible talks about praying for our enemies. Anyways, it grieves me that anybody sould be put in this situation. I will pray for you also. Prayer does miraculous things.

I can not believe that they even let the boyfriend in the hospital! What are they thinking? She is in my prayers, stick close to her.

I will pray.

I'll be praying as well, Lehn. Keep letting us know how Amanda is doing.

It's times like these I wish my faith permitted me to mutilate people. But I suppose that would do no good.

I will be praying.

I will be praying for you and her as well.. i know how hard it is to deal with friends who try to commit suicide a good friend of mine has tried many times with cutting himself hes even done it infront of me one time i was like what the heck are you doing thats pointless.. all he says is physical pain feels better than emotional pain..i just call him weak minded because if he cant deal with his girl friend just talking to another guy that he doesnt know and he goes crazy about it... i just took the knife away from him and hid it but then he just goes and buys knew ones.. sorry about that i had to get it off my chest, i will also be praying for her boyfriend that he either straitens out his act or that he will break up with her or she will break up with him

Just a quick update because I’m on lunch and have about 20 minutes to memorize a 4-minute script. (Kwehhh! *pulls out hair*)

Amanda’s coming back to school on Wednesday. I took some papers down to the office on Friday before I left for the day, and it seems Amanda’s dad changed all of her classes. Her bf was in all of her them before, and now they can only see each other during period changes. Amanda told her bf (who blubbered about it to me) that her dad also received restraining order papers from a chap at their church. Which could either make things better or worse…

Better, though, I definitely hope ...

It's really sad to be hearing about this. Just within the past week and a half, 2 teens in this township killed themselves.

I"ll pray for your friend too.

Will pray...thats so sad

Oh man! What a jerk that so-called Boy Friend is! I will pray.

Anathama on the foul excuse of a human being who cuased this terrible thing to happen.

Update:

School's out for the year, and Amanda's moving to Florida in about 2 weeks.
They, her family, have been talking about it for the past few months, but had always mentioned not moving until the end of next year because this year will be Amanda's senior year of high school.

Recent events, needless to say, speeded things up a bit.

Cody's (the bf) still bent on the idea that he and Amanda are meant to be together, and last time I talked to him, he's planning on a road trip to Florida this Thanksgiving (their one year anniversary) to get Amanda and bring her back here to live with him.

I’m hoping and praying that Amanda will come to her senses once she gets away from here, and see how stupid this entire thing is.