[Sarah4613]

This year I am going into my junior year of school and my fourth year of cutting. The past year I have been trying to stop cutting on my own, but I just can't do it. I don't have the strength to get rid of my razors. I break down if I have no access to razors or knives. My mom thinks that I have quit, but it is too hard. I want to stop, but I am afraid to ask for help. Things have been so stressful lately, so it is a lot harder. I keep opening the same four-year-old scar and causing a worse infection. I need help trying to find ways to tell me mom the truth so that I can stop. I'm sorry for rambling.

[bipolar_bear]

((((((((((((((((((((((((((((Sarah))))))))))))))))))))))))))))) Because of the negative stigma of cutting it is hard to reach out to people. It is such a hard thing to stop on your own as there are issues tied to the action that until resolved will continue the urges to cut. Are you afraid that you will disappoint your mom if you tell her you are still cutting? Maybe you can show her what you have been doing and ask for her help. Please show her soon as if it is getting infected it can be serious. Please take care of you. I am glad you are reaching out here. Take care.

BB

[Soidhonia]

(((((SARAH)))))) hello and welcome to Psych Central. It is very hard to stop cutting alone at times without therapy. i feel that youe should tell your mother that you are feeling the urge to cut again and that you would like to get professional help to help you at this time. I hope thing sgo well if you choose to tell your mother that you would liek to enter therapy. Take care (((SARAH))). Soidhonia

Sarah,

I hope you reach out to someone. Maybe if you can't reach out to your mom, maybe a pastors wife, or counselor, or school worker. You deserve the support in your life.

[Sarah4613]

I want to tell my mom, but I can't. I mean she won't understand and I am afraid she won't do anything for me. It has happened before and she didn't help me. I think maybe I should wait until I am eighteen so that I can go see someone, but I just don't know.

[Rapunzel]

Sarah, maybe she didn't know what you would have liked her to do for you. Some kids are afraid that their parents will send them to counseling. Have you ever told her that you would like to give it a try? You can also start by talking to your school counselor and asking for help with talking to your mom if that makes it easier.

[LittleMilly]

i know exactly how you feel sarah, i have been there before but trust me try again tell her you want to see someone, dont give up after just one try, you need to keep trying because this is your life at risk and you need to let her know that, when i was going throught it and still are i was really scared that she would either make me go to counselling or completely reject me, i too have been re-opening wounds and then they just scar and i re open them and they dont turn out very nice, but again trust me try try again because it may just be the thing that saves your life... just like mine

if you need to just PM or anything

i am here

Milly