My friend who was in the hospital last week is home now, but has gone into crisis again. I have been talking with her on Facebook and she told me a couple of things that makes me think that she might not make it through the night.

Normally, I would hop in the car and go to a friend who is in crisis, but my husband is out of town, and my parents have my oldest son at a birthday party so I am home with my youngest and don't have anyone to watch him. I gave her a few phone numbers of local crisis teams and she had already talked to the hospital which referred her out to another crisis team as they were full. She seems to want to go into the hospital, but also indicated that it would be the thing that might send her over the edge and she said that she would "make sure to find a way to die" if she had to go in again.

I asked her if she would come over to my house but she said she was going to "over-medicate a little" and go to bed. I am afraid that she might fatally overdose or fatally cut herself. She really has given up on life right now.

I haven't heard from her for about an hour. She lives in her own apartment in her parents' house so I hope that they are keeping watch over her tonight. I am afraid that they might not be taking her seriously because she says that they threatened to kick her out if she loses her job over being hospitalized again.

I think I have done all I can do at this point without overstepping my bounds. I have only known her since April, but we have become close over the things we share in our illnesses. We haven't been to each other's houses or met each other's families, we have just met at restaurants or coffee shops over the last couple of months.

Have I done enough? I pray she gets through the night.