[Rebekh]

How did your therapist come to find out about your self harm? Did they ask, or did you volunteer the information? How did they respond? If it was minor did they act like you were being dramatic?

[Daas]

I've been wondering the same thing...
I've been having pretty constant suicidal thoughts and have engaged in SH while I'm waiting to see my therapist and my prescriber. I know I should be completely honest and transparent but don't want to end up in the hospital or something. Any suggestions?

[random_emotion]

My current therapist knows I cut I mean she would probably find out anyway so I figured it be best if she heard it from me. I have told when I actively self harm and she always makes sure I am being "careful" and if I do cut deep that I would seek treatment but in the past I have not been honest about it but I was a minor then so my parents told her anyway. I think if you hide things from your T or Pdoc how are they supposed to treat you accurately and also if you ever get admitted to the hospital and you sign a release for your T or Pdoc they are going to find out anyway and I also find if you upfront with them they tend to over react less at least in my case. I also didn't get the feeling that they thought I was being overly dramatic

[justxholdon]

I want to say each of the therapists I saw had it on their intake forms and I just had to like check a box and offer a frequency. It was never something that got focused on in any of my sessions though. I never got the sense that I was being judged for being 'dramatic' - it's a coping mechanism -- they're not looking for who's the most hardcore, they just wanna help you find ways to deal that aren't so counterproductive, you know?

I started by explaining why I did it, then said "And that's why I sometimes hurt myself."

It nearly went wrong - she thought the explanation was just me explaining a train of thought/feeling, and started to say she understood, so I had to barrel through that and say it.

[velcro003]

My T dragged it out of me, basically. I was really depressed and it was early in therapy. She was like, "with all this intense self-hatred you have, you MUST have killed someone," which made me laugh, and she sort of worked down the list. She started off with shooting heroin, and even though it took a long time, and i had to write it down on a post-it and throw it at her, I told her.

She looks at SH as a symptom of everything else going on. She made sure I was safe with it, and I told her I don't cut deep, so she isn't worried about that. She will ask about it if I am not doing well, but she doesn't freak out.

[ForestWasp]

I was very up front with my therapist. I rolled up my sleeves first day. I wanted help and I knew that was the only way of getting it. She was not happy that I was doing it for 10 years before telling anyone but it was all for the better that I told her right off the bat she thought it was serious and did not make me feel uncomfortable and no I did not end up in the hospital