how do you deal with betrayal by a friend?

[lestahlass]

I have a friend in whom I have confided so much about my life - some things are so personal that I struggled to talk about them and I thought this friend - who said she did counselling work - could be trusted. However I have now found out that she has not only told other people - who I barely know - about certain personal aspcts of my life etc - but also has been laughing at me.

I am somewhere between wanting to kill her and wanting to run away!!!!!! The killing her option seems like a good one at the moment but hey who wants to go to prison for a two faced b*tch eh???

Advice please ....

Did you make it absolutely clear to her that your conversations were confidential, or did you just assume that she had enough tact to realise that they were?

How do you know what she's said and to whom?

No I told her categorically that this was very very private confidential information. It was intensely personal and I said to her that she was the only person entriusted with it.

I know because I have been asked about it by two mutual friends who had no idea

There's nothing you can do, tbh.

Unless she's telling lies, I'd be inclined to let it go but tell her that you're very upset.