when people don't understand things they usually react to situations in a bad way, they become frightened than they become helpless than mad. it's quite normal for people to do this. i constantly have to seek people out who understand because my partner nor family understand a lot of things i gi through and they make me feel like it's not important. a few days after meeting my partner he saw that i SI and it's been one of those elephant in the room deal where we just don't talk about it everyonce in awhile he will see cuts on my arm or bloody towel blood on my clothes and once it was bad and he helped with the stitches (yes i did my own stitches when it got really bad) and my whole family knows but we don't talk about it. and back in the day when you hurt yourself they would put you in the hospital and they wouldn't let me out. they found out in treatment i was doing that then i got shipped off to the state!

i don't have urges quite anymore but there is no one to talk to about it. and it was always taboo to be talked about. i'm glad that it is out in the open now and more people talk about it, but with that said i notice that people are not taken seriously because off this also! i am sorry she doesn't listen. my expierence is not to try and open up that line of communication and talk to people here or somewhere where you are understood.

i am here if you need to talk you can pm me but i still feel weird talking about it in a forum. i still feel like it's a taboo subject. your post just really touched my heart

"you don't fully know and can't quite comprehen until you have gone through it yourself"