I am 13 and have only injured for about 6 months. I don’t want to say anything because my mom will freak. Also I can’t trust my friends because there was a girl who used to go to my school who injured and she told her friends and they told her mom. I don’t want anyone to know cause it would ruin my life if people found out. I found it often helps to write, if im annoyed at school i write in russian so no one can read it. Scince I am really mad at my mom right now and can’t find any paper im just going to type stuff here. And warning, this is going to be long. I really want to stop, and i pretend that i don’t injure, like whenever the subject comes up with my friends i have to be all like oh its so wierd how people hurt themselves to feel better, wont that make them feel worse….. ect. But then I get home and my mom starts yelling at me and i run and injure. and i feel like such a hypocrite and that if i tell my friends the truth they can help me and not tell people. But then i remember that other girl, and i don’t say a word. I am so desprite for people not to know that i injure I hide it and if some one notices I blame my cat. It started when me and my mom got into a fight and didn’t speak for 2 days except to yell at eachother. I was so stressed, i used to never curse, so at first i would go into a nearby forest and just repeat curses and that would make me feel better, but then during the second day of the fight it stopped working from over use i think, so i didn’t know what to do until i accidentally injured and realized that that made it feel better. It’s working for now but i am really woried that, like curseing, it will wear off and i will have to do something more. I want to stop, until my mom and i get into another fight and i remember what a relief it is. I guess that is also why I won’t tell, a part of me doesn’t want them to stop me. Also im scared of their reactions. My friends are closer to the goody goody type so i think that their first reaction will be to tell my mom. Well, I feel better now. Writing does help quite a bit, but not enough. If anyone out there as any advice on what i should do just reply please, I need help on how to stop.
i’m 12 and it does not help when your parents find out mine did and now my mom just througs it in my face again and again. i had a friend turn her back on me when she foundout. i don’t mean this to sound discouraging. but what i AM trying to say is maybe you should tell only your friends you trust and writting has saved my life more than once. so f you every want to talk email me at: rosealcorn@live.com
im 12 too. i curse and self injure. my boyfriend told me to stop but its hard. my mom treats me horrible. i have to hide every thing from her. im also getting bullied at school for drawing anime and wearing dark makeup. sometimes you feel like you have no one to talk to. but theres always someone there who feels the same. my parents have been divoreced for 5 years and my grandma calls me stupid my sister calls me ugly and my mom calls me worse. but TWLOHA and this site have helped me alot. “keep onn trucking” email:stunesemily@yahoo.com