As has been mentioned before, you should seek some professional assistance to help you with your goal. It's majorly an unhealthy habbit and could have detrimental effects to your own sanity.
There are things called the Patient Privacy act - with facilities that are focused towards teens, you could seek help there and they cannot disclose information to your parents without you present (unless subpoena'd by a grand jury / judge. It's extremely hard for someone to obtain a subpoena without being a law official of some sort.
Furthermore, if you tell your parents- you will stop your habbit immediately. Most caring parents will make it almost impossible for you to cut yourself. This will ultimately stress you out and make you develop other habbits to rationalize your stress relief; however, for accomplishing your goal, you should really speak with your parents and have them help you with a medical professional to accomplish your goal.
All the same, I hope you make the best decision possible. Best regards, ArtistBBoy
omg I hate it when girls do that. it looks unattractive, it causes me to get further away from girls. have you tried to stop doing that and possibly get a boyfriend? getting one, will definitely get keep you busy :]
Oh then why are you doing this to yourself? do you have family issues or is your boyfriend pressuring you to do something? I honestly would tell my parents, I don't know why but I think that telling your parents is best :] - 4 months ago
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No its nothing to do with my boyfriend he's great to me(he doesn't know I do this). my parents make little things into big issues - 4 months ago
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Oh then I suggest you should visit your schools counselor, just make sure to tell her/him not to tell your parents :] - 4 months ago
Your parents will find out eventually scars are forever, seek mental help and let your parents help you it will only get worse in the long run if you keep lieing to them
Lol disown you I doubt it, unless they are morons - 4 months ago
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I know for a fact that they will disown me..thats what they did with my older bro they don't invite him to any faimly holidays and outings. they act like he doesn't exist. - 4 months ago
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What did your brother do that made your parents hate him so much? - 4 months ago
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He was cutting himself but he was more obivous about it - 4 months ago
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Why is everyone in your famly cutting themselves? Well you have 2 options Get help and move on with your life, or keep cutting yourself for whatever reason that may be, you worry about what your parents will do yet are fine with doing physical harm to yourself how stupid is that? - 4 months ago
I haven't hurt myself badly yet and its been 8yrs...and I don't want people who know me to find out I cut...so I don't want to see a shrink - 4 months ago
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Well...the people you know you best is your family...I'm sure out of unconditional love for you, your family would help you get the right help so that you can stop doing dangerous things to yourself. Don't be afraid if they find out. - 4 months ago
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I know for a fact that they will disown me..thats what they did with my older bro they don't invite him to any faimly holidays and outings. they act like he doesn't exist. - 4 months ago
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Well your parent's have a definite problem then...It's their problem. If your parent's weren't like that I guarantee, that you wouldn't be cutting yourself. - 4 months ago
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Most likely they like causeing issues over nothing - 4 months ago
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Exactly my point. If they truly care, they'll get you the right help. If they don't they have too much pride and are not willing to swallow their pride to admit that there is a problem going on. - 4 months ago
I used to have that problem. What got me to stop was thinking about how bad I would feel if people saw. I don't know if that would affect you the way it did me. The sad thing is, I stopped about 5 years ago, and I still can't wear short sleeves without it showing. If you don't stop, it will most likely get to that point if it hasn't already. There are certain days where it's too hot to wear long sleeves and wearing a jacket makes me look like a freak. Those are the days I am constantly hiding my arm. Constantly worried because they are so large and shiny and there's so many of them overlapping each other. Constantly so anxious that I can't even have any fun. Constantly making weird movements even at work to attempt to hide something I know people have seen. That's why I hate summer. Do you want to hate summer?
You know what, you need to stop. It is that simple. You know this is crazy, harmful behavior. You know that you should talk to someone about your problem.s But first, you simply need to stop.
Then do it. Asking for advice on how to stop will not help. You know you don't need advice. You just need to stop. I don't know if you feel that you need attention and that is why you are talking about stopping instead of simply stopping. You need to stop, then get the attention you clearly need from your family by talking with them about your issues. - 4 months ago
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I had this problem and what I did is I told a really close friend of mine and whenever I got the urge I'd talk to them instead, you able to do that?
+1 Anytime someone needs me, I am here for them. I have talked with several other friends as well. Thank you for trying that method, I'm glad to know it works in some cases - 4 months ago
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