I was having a nice weekend until I logged onto this other board that I admin. I had a pm waiting for me from one of our members. I don't know why she picked me to reach out to, since our interaction has been minimal. She told me that she was really low and wanted to OD.

I got the message 5 hours after she posted it, so I'm freaking out that maybe she already has, and I don't know anything about her IRL so there's nothing I can really do to help the situation.

I pm'd her back saying that OD'ing wasn't a solution, that no matter how bad things seem now they can get better and to call a crisis line or get to an er if things got really bad. What else could i do?

Thank heaven's I got a message from her this morning saying she'd called a crisis line and was feeling a bit better.

Part of me is reallly worried about her, and part of me is really pissed off at her, since there was nothing I could do to really help her, and it's a self injury support board, not a general mental health forum, and it made me worry about her.

I really don't know how professional counsellors manage to remain detached from stuff like this.

--splitimage