*disclaimer I have severe dyslexia so I’m real sorry for spelling mistakes!*

So he’s not my friend he’s my brothers, but I’ve always got on with him and today my brother just broke in front of me he feels completely helpless and doesn’t know what to do, just wanted to see if there was any advice...

My brothers friend lets call him ‘dave’ was going through a real rough time this last year personally, he ended up getting kicked out of home and stayed with me and my brother for a couple of weeks.. around this time him and his girlfriend broke up as she was going to be studying in Russia for a year and didn’t want to deal with the long distance (there’s probably more to it, but like I said not my friend).

After this he started to smoke a lot more weed and after a while would stay at home by himself mid week and do pills. We were all worried about him then, but he didn’t want to listen to reason, or receive help that anyone wanted to offer. We had to ask him to leave our home when our parents where coming back home for a coupe of weeks (they normally live in another country, we just stay in the family home) he moved into another friends garage room and when he got here he completely quit his job and just became a real burn out just got high all day every day etc.

Cut to about a month later he decided that he’d spend the rest of his savings going travelling, I think most of the guys were kind of relieved that he would just be going away, clear his head, maybe that would make him

Better.

And everything seemed to be okay he was having a fun time or so it seemed. But about 2 months ago he got to Phuket in thailand ever since things have really gone down hill, he’s been virtually uncontactable, and the one time about 2 weeks ago when my brother managed to get him on face time he was very openly snorting cocain, popping pills and self harming with a cigarette. He also told my brother that he has joined a motorcycle gang out there and that he’ll never leave.

He’s got everyone so worried one of his sisters and there mum have flown out to try and find him but can’t get in contact and the only way we know he’s okay are by the infrequent social media posts.

Has anyone ever been in a similar situation or known someone who is? Or do you have any advice?