I agree with the others.
A day in the summer my friends were laughing about someone who told everybody that he self-harmed and tried to show them the cuts. I had to have an input, and somehow laugh at the guy as well. I was so scared because I was sitting in the room, also using self-harming.
Later that day, the friend who had started the bitching about the 'self-harming' guy was in the room whilst I was searched for 'tools' as such. I'm not going into the finer details. That evening, the friend apologized to me for the joke she had made earlier in the day. She felt so terrible for what she had said.
I don't think that your friends understand it. If it is 'happening to them'- as in, someone close to them then they will be more accepting of it and won't laugh at it or mock it. They will want to help you because they care about you. Just, that is my experience.
It is best to come from you than to be 'found out' as well.
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