I’m so sorry in advance for how long this post is, but this whole situation has just got me fucked up. So this girl and I were friends for quite a while and we used to talk all the time, call, play games together, etc. I knew she had all sorts of mental disorders (including but not limited to BPD, OCD, psychosis, ADHD, severe depression, and severe anxiety) but that didn’t stop me from being her friend because I’ve struggled with my mental health as well and we got along so who cared.

However, things escalated when I noticed she started to grow attached to me. She’d get drunk every day and spam text me about how she feels about me and even went as far as to send explicit photos of herself. I kindly told her I valued her as a friend and also that I wasn’t comfortable with receiving those photos from someone I wasn’t in a relationship with. She apologized but it was obvious that she was offended and took it personally. She continued to act this way which eventually lead to a minor argument that I’d started by unintentionally snapping at her, and this lead to a spiral in her BPD as she split on me. She immediately cut me off but kept me on her social media to talk about how I “fucked her over” and said a bunch of hurtful and insulting things about me. We argued back and forth for a bit but eventually, I ignored her until she ended up reaching out to me via direct messages. She apologized for her behavior and I apologized for mine, leaving us on okay terms but we didn’t speak after that. I couldn’t see her the same way. I considered blocking but I felt like it would make things worse and we both got closure so I thought it would be okay.

Fast forward to around a month later (now), I noticed from her posts that she was going through another episode but much more severe this time, posting more explicit photos (publicly) and hurting herself. I ended up messaging just to check up on her but I now realize I really shouldn’t have done that. I encouraged her to talk to someone and get professional help, potentially even get checked into a psych ward since her psychosis was getting so bad. I spent a long time trying to talk her out of hurting herself more, and she said she was sorry for everything she’d done to me and that she felt bad but she ultimately ended up saying goodbye, and posted that she was ending it.

On my social media, I have a little anonymous dropbox that I like to keep because some of my friends enjoy sending me little drawings and things like that. Today, I started receiving all sorts of anonymous messages from someone about my body and other NSFW things. At first I was confused wondering who it was, but then eventually, I realized they were from her based on the style of typing. Honestly, I was confused why she was doing this when she posted that she was about to end it and her behavior along with what she said made me very uncomfortable. A friend told me I should just block and so I did. Literally minutes after I blocked her, she sends me more anonymous messages saying there’s something wrong with me and shit like that. Honestly, I do believe it was my mistake for reaching out when I knew she was attached to me and I should have never tried to comfort her, but I didn’t know what else to do when she was in such a horrible place and we were genuine friends before she split on me.

Any outside perspective on the situation would be appreciated. AITAH? Was I supposed to message her privately before blocking? Not block at all? Anything I could’ve or should’ve done differently? Thanks.