today\u2019s story<\/a> is asking the internet if she made a mistake by establishing a boundary when a friend was in the middle of a mental health crisis and asking for her help.<\/p>\nWould you have done something differently?<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s read the whole story and the comments.<\/p>\n
I (F27) have been best friends with someone for 15 years.<\/p>\n
She was going through a mental health crisis and asked me to stay the night (or even a week).<\/p>\n
I told her I\u2019d hang out with her but couldn\u2019t do sleepovers.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t accept that, went to the hospital, and when she got back she kept pressuring me to stay overnight.<\/p>\n
She cares about her friend, but she just couldn\u2019t do that.<\/p>\n
I still offered to hang out and talk on the phone, but because she kept begging\/pressuring me, I pulled back from hanging out altogether.<\/p>\n
Eventually, she decided I was a bad friend and cut me off.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think I was wrong. I was respecting my own boundaries.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m introverted, sleep best at home, and I\u2019ve supported her through past crises.<\/p>\n
But now that she\u2019s stopped talking to me, I feel guilty.<\/p>\n
AITA?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a fine line between actually helping and enabling a pattern.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s see how Reddit reacted to this.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a reasonable take.<\/p>\n
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And here\u2019s a different perspective.<\/p>\n
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Food for thought.<\/p>\n
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You need to protect your own mental health.<\/p>\n
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This person doesn\u2019t beat around the bush.<\/p>\n
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At the end of the day, each person is responsible for their own mental health.<\/p>\n
If you enjoyed that story, read this one about a mom who was forced to bring her three kids with her to apply for government benefits, but ended up getting the job of her dreams.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Freepik\/Reddit As someone who\u2019s been affected by friends\u2019 mental health struggles more than once, I know how important…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[23625,24516,5934,102,1906,6623,2370,621,2415,2373,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-210728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-aita","9":"tag-drama","10":"tag-friends","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-mental-health","13":"tag-mentalhealth","14":"tag-picture","15":"tag-reddit","16":"tag-relationships","17":"tag-top","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom","20":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}