Can You Believe Some People?!

Question

This is concerning a friend of mine who is suffering with untreated mental illness. 
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​Her mother just told her before she left for school, "I'm on medication that makes me bitchy. Do what I say. If I snap your ass is dead". 
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​This is obviously referring to my friend's needing to go to the hospital on Sunday evening. Her mother either tells her this and other various threatening and insensitive statements or on occasion causing her bodily harm. We need to encourage her to go get help from the people at her church by calling them or have her go to her youth group tonight and have her tell them in person. That way people will believe her and the police can get involved. 
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​Please help me cheer her on! You can make the differance between saving a life or having her become another statistic. 
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If you know about this you can be held against it too. Idk how old you guys are, but you don't have to go to church to tell someone about this. This is abuse. I'd call human services for the safety of your friend. If she can't and won't get help, then you help her.

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Like others have said, you don't need to wait for her to report it. Report it yourself. Emotional abuse is still abuse and it's still taken seriously. You don't even need to put your name on the report. Just call CPS and let them know what you've witnessed and what your friend has told you. They'll ask for their names, birthdates and address. If you're worried the report won't be taken seriously, you can get other friends and family who have witnessed the abuse or who suspect abuse to report as well and CPS WILL act. 
​Your friend deserves protection, love and support. She needs to be in a safe place, and if that means you have to force her into it, then so be it. She will be south better off, I promise you. 
​I've had to report on a friend once, and I reported my cousin's abuse so she could get out of a bad situation as well.

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Is it not possible for you to call the police or is there some kind of adult protection department where you are? She may not even go and get help.

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I believe we all have a responsibility to report such concerns and I hope you will seriously consider doing this.

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