My best friend and I have known each other since elementary school, she’s grown up in a toxic household her entire life and has many mental health issues that she has been dealing with all her life.

I remember when she starting telling me all her issues and trauma dumping onto me since middle school and in the beginning, I didn’t mind helping and listening. Granted I had zero ideas how to help, I mean at the time I was probably like 10 years old trying to convince my best friend to stay alive nearly every other day, or listen to her home problems with her mom and toxic stepdad, along with self-body issues, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, you name it.

But now, where both adults and I feel as if I can’t do this anymore. Nearly every time we talk now it’s about how she hates herself or how s***** her life is and she gets to the point where she constantly asks to hang out with me just so she can trauma dump in person and I mentally can’t keep doing this with her anymore. But she’s my best friend and I know she’s not doing this to be toxic and just needs someone to talk to but it’s like this every single day. I don’t know what to do or how to help her, she has a therapist and she takes medication for her depression and anxiety but I know she doesn’t take it consistently as she should.

Part of me wants to end the friendship but I can’t help but feel like an awful person if I go through with it.