Update: Your Kid's Friends Might Be Psychos
My 15-year-old daughter spent all day yesterday at her friend's house. Let's call the friend Devo. My wife said that she was basically "babysitting" Devo because she's been thinking about cutting. Cutting... what, like cutting class? No, cutting, and she mimes cutting across the inside of her arm with a knife. Oh, that kind of cutting.
I happen to know that Devo is much closer to another friend of theirs, Carlie. Devo and Carlie have known each other since they were five years old, and my daughter came into the picture maybe five years after that. Devo and Carlie's Facebook pictures refer to each other as BFFs, which has actually been a source of some frustration for my daughter, who regards them both as friends and it hurts her that they clearly regard her as a "lesser" friend.
Anyway, I asked my wife why our daughter is babysitting Devo and not Carlie. They're BFFs and all that, right? (And also, they diss my daughter so let them fucking help each other through this.) It turns out that Carlie was recently admitted to the mental ward of the local hospital. She's been having "suicidal thoughts". And now Devo is "thinking" of cutting herself.
HFS, are all high school girls crazy? I mean, my daughter can be pretty nutty too, but not literally crazy.
I have no idea what the point of this was. Guess I just needed to vent and share.