u/Z_Art1221

My best friend has recently been in a really dark place. He’s expressed how he doesn’t feel a need to stay alive and that I’m really the only reason he woke up today. I’ve been very carefully helping him through his for about a month now but I’m just an inexperienced teenager against a task that seems impossible. I’ve been trying my best to convince him but it’s terribly difficult. His parents are divorced and his mom and sister (he lives with them the majority of the time) don’t care much about his feelings when he reaches out to them, either brushing his feelings off or turning it into an incessant argument that only makes it worse. The only people that really care about him are me, the other two people in our close friend group, and his dad. Out of these people, I’m the only one who he feels he can reach out to excluding his therapist (who he meets up with every two weeks, not enough). How in the world do I help him more than I am right now? URGENT