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Hi everyone! My pen name is Hannah and I am a 17-year-old girl. I like languages, friends, cats, and many other things. I really love giving advice, and I am studying psychology now. My favorite questions have to do with mental health. As I said above, I am taking psychology classes now, but I also do a lot of outside research, so chances are that if you say something to me about a disorder or anything like that, I will know what you are talking about. Although I am not a licensed psychologist, I hope to someday be one and I would love to get some practice here.

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I really want help for my cutting but i dont know how to get help. besides my friends should i tell someone? i CANT let my parents know and most people would go and tell my parents. and without my parents knowing i cant join a support group or see a counselor. what should i do!?!?!?! Thank you SO much!!!!!

Haley :]

Hi Haley!

I would only tell people that you trust. I understand why you don't want to tell your parents, and if you are able to get over it without them knowing, then there isn't a reason to tell them now unless you want to. But you be the judge about that.

Do you have a school psychologist? I don't know if they would tell... I know that they are obligated to tell if someone's life is in danger, but you check out what your school says about that.

There are many support websites for cutting in which you can contact other people who self-injure. Here are a few that might help you:

dailystrength.org (Did you check this out? It has message boards, private messages, online journals, hugs from other members, and other features. Cutting is one of the groups.)

http://www.golivewire.com/forums/groups.cgi?action=group&id=415 (more message boards)

http://gabrielle.self-injury.net/
(mostly message boards)

http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html
(information and help)

http://christianforums.com/f478
(Christian forums for self-injury)

Those are the best websites I found. If you can't tell you parents, it is really hard to do anything in "real life" so online is the next best thing.

If you are interested, here is a good video from Youtube about self-injury:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KV_ulfRTOs

-Hannah =]

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(Rating: 5) Thanks so much! good advice as always! ya i did try dailystrength and i really like it! :)
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