Does ' It took me really a long time to sort what was going on in my mind out,  she said.' stand independently of the premise 'My friend helped me to make sense of what was going on in my mind, she said.', neither following nor contradicting it?
 It took me really a long time to sort what was going on in my mind out,  she said.###My friend helped me to make sense of what was going on in my mind, she said.