My Insignificant Rant

[CrookedYoung]

Second Topic. I still don't feel accustomed to this and I feel skeptical that my thoughts and such will be placed out here for people to see, but I don't know who else I can talk to about it without being confronted in ways I do not wish to be. Here goes. I'm 15 firstly. Sadly, not a favorable age I have to say. People my age are quite shallow and hypocritical. Especially in the school I attend. I don't like around about 97% of the adolescents in there, or the teachers.

Antisocial? No. I prefer to think of it as just not wanting to deal with people who I can not get along with. I've had dysthymia for quite a while now and I've been getting worse this winter. Well i will not continue with boring insignificant details of my life background so I will get straight to my current issue. One of my 4 friends has a rough time with her family and only lately did I find out that she self harms and is depressed, or so she says. I'm not sure whether she is actually "depressed" but then again it wouldn't be surprising if she was.

I shall call her Samantha since it may get confusing. Samantha told a guy called Mark all her worries and self hating thoughts and how she is planning to kill herself and etc. Mark is a very positive person. He's naive and very innocent. He told me about Samantha's condition and I thought it was a nice thing to do. The problem is she influenced him. He's taking in everything she says and does and he's starting to believe that he himself is not satisfied with his life. Mark has wonderful parents he even says it every day. He has lots of friends and he was a very happy person. Ever since Samantha's been ranting to him, he's been getting pessimistic.

I don't know what to do to be honest. I'm stuck between helping myself, helping her or trying to save Mark from her influence. I'm not very concerned that she's saying she will kill herself because i know (don't ask how) she wont do it. It's not as important as many other people's issues out there, I'm quite aware. It may sound like a teenage soap opera of sorts but as small as this problem may seem I'm in need of any kind of advice.

There are not people around me right now who can help so I'm asking anyone who sees this. Even an opinion would be appreciated. Thank you anyways.

[CrazyLady17]

(((Hugs)))

[Ieris]

I think it is best to save Mark from her influence. Friends play a massive part of who we are and who we become and you don't really want to surround yourself with negative people. I say this because when I was 16 I was hanging out with those people and that made my world become so hopeless and gloomy so I'd advise against it. At 15 I am not sure what he can do to help her apart from listen. If it is having a negative effect on him then he should stay away from her and she should seek professional help.

It is great that he has someone like you as a friend. Just try to be supportive and positive around him but don't forget to solve your own problems too.

I hope things work out x