I need advice.
About two weeks ago, my eleven year old cousin called me, panicking.
She had slit her wrist... "Accidently", she had said. She promised she wouldn't do it again.
About a week ago, she Skyped me, in absolute hysteria.
She had a knife in her hands. She told me she wanted to commit. Let's remember she's eleven. She told me everything that was worrying her. Her parents divorcing, her friends turning against her, the relentless bullying, all the school work she's getting. I know her mum, and she's always pushing my cousin to be perfect.
After four hours and a lot of tears on Skype later I managed to slowly convice her out of it. I didn't sleep that night.
She called me the next day, saying she, "loved me so much", and that I was the, "only one she could ever trust". Then she cut me off.
Naturally, I started freaking out, calling her mum and telling her to go check on my cousin immediately. She kept asking me why, to which I replied, every time, with, "She's gonna do something really bad, just go, please, see if she's okay". I was sobbing. Her mum said, "Okay", then hung up on me.
I tried calling my cousin again. She picked up, and I managed to convince her not to do it, a second time. Not once in that two hour conversation did I hear a door open, or did I hear her mum's voice. At the end of the conversation, I asked if her mum had come in before I called.
She hadn't.
I was furious. I had never felt more hate for that woman, ever. My cousin could've killed herself. That could've been it. Eleven years old. She could've been gone, just like that. And she hadn't even been checked on.
I told my parents. They called my cousin's mum, and explained the situation. My dad had told me that my cousin's mum had denied the fact my cousin would do that, that my cousin was her "precious little angel"...
I saw the scars on her wrists, and I heard the pain in her voice. My cousin was fully ready to do such a thing to herself.
I'm so scared, and I don't know what to do. I know she could do it. My cousin's mum wasn't concerned at all. They're a two person family, my cousin is an only child and, as I said before, the parents are divorced, so she doesn't have anyone else immediately around to keep an eye on her.
I need advice.
LucieAndGeorgia