I'm not deluding myself into thinking that I can single-handedly save him, or fix all of his problems. I'm just trying to help him hold on until his home life improves, or he gets help, or he pulls himself out of the hole he's currently falling into.

I am SO glad that he trusts me enough to come to me. At the same time, I'm afraid that if I tell him he needs professional help, he'll shut me out and I won't know what/how he's doing, if that makes sense.

I know that at least one adult knows that he's cutting and my friend E mentioned that she'd gone to the counselors. How much she's told them, I'm not sure. Hopefully things with the newspaper calm down to a point that I get a chance to speak with her and figure out what she's doing about it all, because she's known for a few months. I might just drag her out to my car tomorrow at lunch so we can talk privately without a bunch of nosy journalists listening in, haha.