<human>: I have a close friend who has recently admitted to regularly self harming, and to being bulimic. I've done my best to reason with her and help her to stop - I've offered to take her blades and pills from her to help her to stop(she told me she wants to stop) but she has insisted that we go as slow as possible. I get the feeling that she doesn't really want to stop. It's got to the stage where I really want to help but I can't.

Her parents are some of the least supportive parents I've ever seen. Her mother knows about the self harm for almost a year and has not done anything to try and help. Meanwhile her father is a complete dick, and calls her out for being a freak and makes subtle jokes about her self harm; she totally hates him. Her mother seems to be completely oblivious to this.

I've suggested many things including:

* **Moving in with a friend.** In fact, she has told me that many friends have offered her this, but she is hesitant as it would 'upset her mother'.

* **Go to a GP.** I've offered to go with her but again she doesn't want to - she tells me she isn't fond of doctors and that she'd have to take her mum with her.

* **Simply talking to her mother and explaining things.** 'She wouldn't do anything. She'd probably side with my dad.' I can't make her see things a different way.

Recently I've just decided to stop talking about it, and we now have normal conversations and have a lot of fun, but I still want to do something and help her deal with this. I don't want to end up losing a good friend.

Reddit, what can I do?

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<bot>: Close friend has a problem with self harm and bulimia, has unsupportive parents and I want to help her see someone and stop.