Help for Cutting

How can i help a friend with cutting?

• Ask about it-Friends with cutting problems are often glad to be able to talk about it. If you bring it up and this person isn't self-injuring it won't start just because you said something about it.
• Offer options but don't do. If someone's using cutting or some other kind of self-injury as a way to feel in control, it won't help if you try to take control. Helping someone see ways to get help-like talking to a parent, teacher, school counselor or mental health professional-may be the best thing you can do
• Seek support. Knowing a friend is going through this can be frightening and stressful consider telling a teacher or someone else you trust. And remember even if you don't want to share your friends's secret, you can still talk to a mental health professional about how it is affecting you.

Remember you're not responsible for ending your friends self-abuse. You can't force someone to stop or to get help from a professional. What you can do always, is keep being a good friend.

How can i help myself?

• Talk to someone you trust. Maybe its a parent or a good friend or a school counselor. Tell them you're cutting yourself, you want to stop. Ask them to help you find help. Know that you may get some tough reactions like denial or sadness or anger, but that will pass. If you're not comfortable with that, cotact a local mental health group or a hotline.
• Get help. Cutting isn't something to deal with on your own. There are therapists and support groups who can help you work through what makes you cut. Even if you're nervous about getting help NOW is the best time to do it. If you wait, the problem will only get bigger and harder to hide. And remember, you can stop cutting.

ya know i type all this up about get help and i've got help ya know but its hard and sometimes i don't even want to quit so i don't know about this whole thing.....i encourage everyone to get help and talk to someone about it.

Living with mental illness

I just read a blog by someone and they were talking about what its like to live with mental illness. To live with the effects of bipolar disorder or Borderline personality disorder. How it can screw up your life your relationships every thing.

Also how people make fun of mental illness like its a game or just some silly little thing that doesn't even matter when really it does. It matters a lot. People throw out suicide threats all the time just joking around but they don't know the real pain of someone who's really going through that. The lonliness, pain, sadness, depression. Feeling so bad that you hurt yourself. you actually take a razorblade and slice into your skin. They don't know that kind of pain. Or how about to take a lighter to your skin and hold it there. Or to hold a lighter to your clothes hoping they'll catch on fire and you'll die.

What about when the pain gets too much and you take that almost fatal overdose. They aren't sure whether you'll wake up or not or if there is damge done or not.

People who don't feel this who don't experience it don't know about it and therefore they shouldn't joke around about it.