Toxic Friends

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Alright. So, I have this really nice friend that I’ve known since second grade. I love her to bits, but the thing is that she wants me to call her and text her everyday and I have my own things to do. If I don’t text her then she spams me saying that she’s going to kill herself, that she’s depressed, and that she’s going to cut herself. If I don’t call her then she ends up telling her parents and then her parents get mad at me. So, whenever I do FaceTime her, she puts me with her parents and her parents start asking me, “Why don’t you call (insert her name here)? She gets really sad.” This friend is always relying on me and I’m not a therapist. She’s really toxic, and I really want to leave her, but how can I say it to her? I love her but she can really get on my nerves and whenever she threatens to kill herself I have no choice but to help her because I’m scared that she is. She once cut herself and that scared me. What am I supposed to do?

[calmck]

My apologies that I questioned the legitimacy of your question. There have been some windup posts in the past. Please take the advice you were given