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How to deal with friends who have mental health issues when ur also struggling

So, my friend Brooklyn has been struggling with clinical depression and an eating disorder. I try my best to support her and be there for her when she needs me, but even I have my own shortcomings. I’ve been struggling with severe bod dysmorphia and my recently diagnosed BPD and ADHD, but I haven’t bothered telling her because she doesn’t need the extra stress. I have nobody to talk to about my problems and it feels like I’m choking on it. 


I want to support her, believe me. She’s one of my closest friends and I couldn’t imagine life without her, but the friendship feels deeply on sided. I try to save her from falling off this cliff of her own life that I slip in the process, but nobody’s there to catch me. So I’m kind of just stuck. Stuck feeling like I’m failing as a friend and that I’m so selfish for needing support when she needs it more.


Anytime I’m going through something she’s breaking down and on the verge of going into a mental hospital, so I have to push everything down to make her happy. Make her feel better. But I don’t feel better.


Then I’ll take time for myself, and I feel selfish because where does that leave HER?

I don’t know what to do


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Hey there, I feel you, I truly do. You have to understand that helping people is really nice of you and mostly when its someone who is close to you, however you need to acknowledge that dragging yourself down by the problems of other's is never the correct move. Believe me, that your own mental health should be always the priority number one, because how can you help others, when you can't even help yourself...
Sorry if this feels pessimistic.


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