My friend is considering running away for a week to sleep in a tree so I'm reaching cause they won't.
My best friend of about 10 years (they're 16, I'm 17) has a series of mental and familial issues and they refuse to get help for so I'm here to get advice for them cause I'm 1 of about 3 people they will actually listen to.
So their dad is strait up abusive (like, randomly attacks them and then says that it's to train them for "self defense" (he's never given them any sort of training like martial arts and whatnot)) also he emotionally abuses them, is an alcoholic and provides them with an opportunity to steal cigarettes.
their mum is negligent at best (she provides food but little else), and actually encourages them to live with their dad because they have 2 younger siblings that their mum is much more focused on looking after (plus their step dad is kind of a lunatic).
their therapist had put almost complete control into the fathers hands, and he now threatens to call an ambulance to take them to a mental ward whenever they even slightly act up. needless to say that they have lost complete faith in this psychologist, but they have to go through their parents to see the GP, and they've been waiting for months, plus their parents trust the psychologist and will probably refuse to change.
also they need to change medication but they haven't been able to go to the GP, so they are now considering going off it entirely.
My friend won't sleep at my place cause their parents know where I live, and their boyfriend had his own home issues. and they don't really trust anyone else enough to stay with.
they're currently in year 12 so this has just been completely screwing with everything.
next year we plan on moving out together with a few friends, but that doesn't really help the situation now, and all the options I've thought of (like lending them the money to stay at a motel or something) are incredibly temporary.
also, they have an extreme mistrust of the police and the justice system thanks to their father, so going through the police probably won't work unless things get really really really bad.
they have suicidal and self harming/ self destructive tenancies, and I 100% believe that they would run away for a week just to get away so I'm really worried.
even though this seems like a bit of a betrayal of trust, I just need to get some advice on what I can do cause I have no ideas.
thank you for reading this far
A Worried Friend
