I worked with one of these people for years. Eventually she grew out of it. I can say some extremely hurtful comments about these people having wasted much of my time.
In the end:
-it's a cry for help.( dont let em fool you it's not)
-it's a weak childish habit
-it will not end, unless they want to help themselves
-they will bring everyone involved down with them
-it's very predicatable habit , with predictable responses from the SI.
Once you get past all that and are still willing to help, get ready for a long numb road. It's like trying to teach an old dog new tricks. They will ignore everything reasonable and sensible. Unfortuanly it killed my friendship with this person, but she is no longer SI. The lies and deceit totally drained every ounce of trust i once had. You can read some active forums with this kind of problem. You'll hear the same damn thing over and over. I can't bother reading them anymore, the frustration breeds a rather deep anger.
I can talk about how i helped, throw me a pm. Oh, Don't let the psychologists fool you. Their field is barely a science. They some pretty retarded comments much of the time. Psych's is the only science to claim soo much with so little real knowledge. I studied neurobiolgy heavily in college. I laughed directly at many psych groups when those PhD's started talking about the brain. What i am trying to say : If you think you are helping better than the therapy , then you probably are....
All bitterness aside, it can be helped , and you can help.
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