Silentscream, I wish I had some wonderful words of wisdom but I don't. My problems didn't start until my mother died. By then everyone else was gone, too.

Again, I don't know anything about self injury except that it releases some of the pain inside you or proves to the person that they can still feel. Because I'm an abuse survivor and it seems that almost everyone else here is too, my impulse is to tell you that maybe you should seek professional help before you break it to your parents so that you have "someone with skin on" to guide you with your specific problems and someone to go to in case things go bad. Of course, we're all here to support you, too.

At any rate, good luck in whatever you decide to do.



This above all: To thine own self be true. -- Shakespeare