Has a friend ever told you a secret that could be deadly? There are the secrets that my friends have told me, "I like insert name. Don't tell anyone. I would die!" But these aren't the secrets I'm talking about. It's the secrets such as, "I tried to kill myself last night on a drud overdose." Or "I'm bullemic. I don't want to be; just don't tell anyone." These are the secrets that you're confused about. Do you keep them and hope for the best; that one day your friend will kick her eating disorder and be normal again? Or do you tell an adult and get everyone involved? I was in ninth grade when my friend confronted me about killing herself. Of course I wouldn't tell anyone; I wanted to help her and so I told her how I'd be so upset if she went through with it. After talking and spending a lot of time with her, she seemed to improve her mood and I knew things would be back to normal. In tenth grade, my friend got a new job and started hanging out with kids that smoked, drank, and did drugs. She would say she was having fun, but I couldn't see how sneaking around and lying to her family was fun. She stopped talking to me, since she knew I didn't approve of her new change. I didn't realize how serious things were getting until the middle of the year. On a school trip she told me what was really going on. She told me that she was bullemic. I blew up at her. "Do you know what could happen to you! You could die! I don't want you to die! What can I do to make you stop?!" She said had only been battling it for a few weeks now, but that she needed my help. "Please, don't tell anyone," she said. "Just follow me after I eat and make sure that I don't throw up." Since I knew the consequences, I followed her. About a week or two after the trip, she called me to tell me that she had finally stopped. Not every story like this has a happy ending; be there for your friends when they really need you.