I thought it was very sad when she started to mutilate...We had grown apart awhile before then, so I wasn't so close to her at the time, but the only reason her mother didn't find out about it from me was because another friend beat me to it.

I also called the police on the man that is currently my best friend because he called me to tell me he was trying to kill himself. He had been chronically depressed for a long time and had self-mutilated, and I didn't doubt him. It turned out he was faking it, trying to get attention.....spending the night in the psychiatric ward of the hospital strapped to his bed took that out of him. I was FURIOUS when I found out, and he later told me that my calling the police was the most caring thing anyone had ever done for him.