I think my friend has been suffering from post natal depression since the birth of her first child, who is now 3. She now has an 8 month year old and it seems like she is just not getting better.
I really need the advise of you guys of whether I need to just mind my own business or take action. Her husband is not doing anything. She will call me one day saying everything is fine and then the next day she will call me in tears, barely able to breathe in the midst of a panic attack.
She rang the other day and told me that she just wants to move back in with her mum and that she no longer wants to be a mother to her children or a wife.
She told me that she is a terrible mother and she is just drunk all day and not looking after the children.
She also suffers from an ED and at the moment she looks incredible thin and malnorished. She only eats dinner and she said she vomits that up, not on purpose anymore just as a gag reflex coz I guess her stomach has shrunk so much.
She smokes a packet of cigarettes a day, drinks wine from the moment she gets up in the morning til she goes to bed and she drinks coffee all day too.
I told her I am scared that she is going to die from heart failure or some other complication. She broke down and asked me if I would speak to her husband because he is not taking it seriously. So she handed me the phone and he was not impressed in the slightest. I felt that he was pissed off and thought I was interfering. I told him that something needs to be done and that Im scared that she will end up dead and I told him she needs to go to hospital. He said that he agreed and promised me he would discuss it with her when he got off the phone.
When I spoke to her the next day she told me they didnt discuss anything because he was tired from work and wanted to go to bed!!!!!
Her mother and her are close and even she is doing nothing about this.
I feel that i should just take her to the hospital myself but she said there is no one who can look after her 2 kids.
Fuck I really don't know what to do about this anymore. Im scared that she will either die or kill herself or that something will happen to those two children. She already told me she nearly dropped the 8 month old coz she is too weak to hold him.




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