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What do I do about my best friend? He has been bullied a long time and I am worried about him.
Hi I'm starting to get worried about my best friend and we're both in middle school. He has such a big heart but he has been bullied since kindergarden and I am starting to get worried about him. He has told me he thinks life stinks and he has stopped believing in happy endings and he wants to die. What if he tries/does something stupid? I have already told him how much he means to me and that I will always be here for him no matter what but I often find him putting himself down. He has told me that his brother is always picking on him or beating him up. Please help me! I really care about him and I can't stand seeing him so hard on himself all the time. What do I do about him?
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This is bigger than you. It's not a situation that you alone can handle. Your friend needs more support than just one person to feel like he's worth something even if you give him the support of 100 people, you're still just one person on his list of people who care. If he's saying things like this and is refusing to seek help on his own, you need to tell someone. Schools are really cracking down on bullying these days. It's the best thing that you can do for him to clue other people in to the situation and get them to show their care and support as well. You as one person cannot prevent him from making the wrong choice. I'd rather have a friend with hurt feelings that I betrayed him in some way by telling than a dead friend. I wish you the best of luck.
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You need to sit down and talk to him. Tell him to go talk to somebody because if this keeps going on and he keeps feeling down and saying he wants to die, he may go through with it.
I don't know how old you are but after you talk to him, you should probably go tell someone about what's going on and that you are worried about him.
You don't want to wait and see if things get better because what if they don't?
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