Throw away, as my friend has an account.
Throughout this post, I will call my friend Zoe. Her and I have been friends for a little over a year now.
It's only been the past couple of weeks that she has been making these comments. Whilst her and I were hanging out with a mutual friend, she pretty much outright told us that she enjoys feeling pain. Apparently she recently stuck a hot wick into her arm as well, causing a fairly minor wound, but enough to obviously frighten me. I didn't ask about it when I first saw it, it just looked like an accidental wound that could've happened from touching a pan briefly or something. Yesterday, when it was just me and her, she tried explaining to me why she enjoys pain, and reasonably enough I felt incredibly uncomfortable, and tried to steer away from the topic.
Today, she came over to my house to hang out for a bit. My brother got a couple new pets yesterday (I would say what pets, but I feel like I need to be as vague as I can in this post). They are both rather anxious at the moment, so, not surprisingly they want to be left alone and hide if they can. Today, one of them was a fair bit more skittish than the other, so he ran away and hid in a corner. Zoe straight up said "I hate him." That made me and my brother uncomfortable, however we decided to just not comment on it. Well, only a few minutes later she made a comment along the lines of "I want to see them fight for their lives." which only made me more uncomfortable, and to be honest made me afraid. She also attempted to light her hair on fire as a joke, but at the same time she tried to hide it. Once my brother could smell it, he told her that she needs to leave his room immediately in fear of any fumes hurting the pets. I definitely agreed with him, but didn't outright voice it to her. I quickly encouraged Zoe to come back upstairs with me, where soon after she left. Once she left, my brother explained that her comments made him very uncomfortable, and I told him they made me uncomfortable as well.
For a bit of background: In the year I've known Zoe, she has never acted this way. Never once has she made such outrageous comments about my pets, or her own. She has also never actually inflicted pain on herself until recently. The whole time I've known her, she has been depressed, but she is also on medication and regularly sees a therapist.
I think this post covered everything, if I remember anything important I'll update the post. What the hell should I do? How should I even start to approach her and talk to her about this?
TL;DR: My friend has started inflicting pain on herself and talks about inflicting pain on herself, as well as saying abusive things about my brother's new pets
Submitted July 13, 2019 at 08:57PM by throwawaypth456 https://ift.tt/2YbgSdv
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