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[EDIT:] My old roommate's family came to pick up her stuff from our old dorm, the week school was getting out. I was hoping to see her again, just to see how she was doing, but her family said she wasn't well enough to come that day. :shrug: But she has been getting better. c: She has her "good and bad moments," but she seems to be recovering well. They said she should be back at school around fall. :shrug:

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This doesn't apply if your "friend" is a douche to you. :paranoid: If so, then get some new friends. I'm not trying to be mean, but seriously....If you're getting pushed around by a complete jackass, you need a new friend. :|

ANYWHO~
Let me spin you a little story about my last roommate and how I looked after her, even when she seemed to have broken down. This actually happened recently, in the last few days:

My roommate is only a Fashion-Marketing student in her freshman year, her second semester. She was full of pep and rather chatty, being a cheerleader in high-school. She was picky and seemed to have an OCD with cleanliness in our room, which she annoyed me with to no end (I'm a bit disorganized and I don't mind cleanliness, but she took the word "cleanliness" a bit too far, by cramming food into small spaces, just so she could keep the top of the refrigerator "clean" and wasting space. :no:). Those were the only flaws I didn't really like about her. But I still tolerated her. Then recently, her peppy and bright behavior was suddenly flipped upside down by some unknown cause. I suspected it probably had to do with a lot of college-stress, which tends to happen to freshmen...myself included.

Sunday afternoon, after coming back from a family-reunion at home, I had walked into the room to find her asleep on the floor in front of my desk....and a "SOMEONE HELP ME, I'M SCARED!!1!" note on her desk. I asked if anything was bothering her and she seemed to be a bit dazed, like she wasn't really there anymore, and she denied, over and over again, that there wasn't anything was wrong. But the obvious "help!" note on her desk was throwing up a lot of red flags for me, so I was prompted by my parents and neighbor to call the RA (Residence Adviser).

After a talk with the RAs about being stressed out and help-numbers were exchanged, she seemed to brighten up a bit. But then came the excuses about the "help!" note. She asked me why the RAs kept coming over to check up on us and I often brought up the question on the "help!" note (I was asked by the RAs to try to find out why she wrote the note). But every time the note was brought up, she made up the weirdest excuses for it, tried to change the subject, or beat around the bush about it, like it wasn't there. Her last excuse for it was "I was going to use it for my fashion-marketing project, by cutting out the words and pasting them on the board for the collage."

:unimpressed: I wasn't convinced. I'd seen her project before. This was a collage that gave more of a positive mood, with things like "Be you! Discover the world! :dummy:"
...So how did a negative note of "PLEASE HELP ME, I'M SCARED!!1!" fit in with a project like that?

The next day, her weird distant behavior quickly went from bad to worse. From what I heard from residents in the other halls, including the girls in our dorm-hall, was that she had been walking around rather dazed, like she wasn't really in touch with reality anymore, to the point that she wasn't responding to people. To further scare everyone in our hall, she had spent over 6 HOURS in the community-bathroom, from 10 PM until 4 AM, standing on the toilet-seats and taking off the air-vents in the ceiling, as if she was going to crawl into the ventilation shafts to escape from something. She was also letting the water run in the sinks (whenever someone turned it off, she would get mad at them and turn the water back on again). I freaked out after I noticed she was gone for so long and had left her dorm-keys and her phone behind, and almost tempted to call the RAs again to report her missing at 2 AM, only to find out she had spent the last few hours in the hall's bathroom again.

I was quickly moved out of the dorm and into an empty triple downstairs in another wing the next day, requested by my parents on Sunday afternoon, who had feared my roommate was "unstable." I agreed, considering the entire situation was stressing me out. Turns out, my parents were right; Wednesday afternoon, as I was busy moving downstairs, my roommate, who had been wandering around the campus, was found and taken to the hospital. I had only seen her once that day, sitting at a table, completely unresponsive to my questions about her missing dorm-keys. According to the school's housing manager, they had found her diary, along with her keys and school ID. Whatever she had written in the diary must have been disturbing enough for them to call for medical attention.

Ever since that Wednesday, I haven't seen her. The school doesn't know when she'll be back, if she comes back at all. I'm concerned about her, but I'm keeping my distance from her from now on, if she does come back. At the same time, I'm a bit relieved that she's finally getting the help she needed. Since she wouldn't tell anyone what was wrong, I had no other choice but to seek the RAs' help.

Despite the whole disturbing situation, I'll still look after her, even if she does come back. I've never had any friend be this emotionally/mentally disturbed before, and even though I've only known her since last semester and I was often annoyed by her, I'm still going to look after her well-being. Because she's one of my friends. When it comes to my friends and I know that there's something wrong, I'm always persistent in trying to get them to tell me what's bothering them. Because when my friends are bothered by something, I get concerned about them.

So no matter what happens, I'll still be there if she needs someone to talk to, even if she's reluctant to tell me. :shrug:

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WoodLily's avatar
I agree witnthis stamp. I do have some friends that are a jackass with me, so I can make new friends too. Did you kow that there are some people who say that they are too busy for friends?
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