needtobefree / Nov 10 2009 17.49

Its alreight to feel that you have to self harm...its like a drug, only there are no substances in your system. It is hard for others to realise how their behaviour or there reaction affects you. There is help out there for you if you really do not waht to talk to your school...I self harm and i cant tell my collega or i will be kick out. If you need to talk...Please. take care

Ebony95 / Nov 12 2009 18.12

I feel the same and think the reason everyone gets addicted to it is because we become so dependant on it to relieve us from our emotional distress. x

rowie / Nov 13 2009 21.40

don't feel bad just because you self-harm. i used to regularly and then stopped for a year but have recently started again. its so bad because people don't understand it if they never have..its so hard to explain to people. when i first did it everyone found out and most of my friends stopped talking to me...which kinda made it worse! i would love to be able to give you advise but self harmers can't help each other. because we don't know how to help ourselves. i've been doing this for 3years and i still don't know how to stop. do what i've never had the guts to do and go and see a counsellor..be brave. tell me how it goes. i've always been to self conscious cos i hate crying in front of people.

sorry about this massive reply!

CharX / Nov 14 2009 23.15

i know how you feel. thats how my self harming started but he did hit me.  like you i have stopped and started over the course of 3/4 years. Talking to someone helped me. but i found it easier to talk to people i didn't really know, butcause they couldn't judge me.  Google 'To write love on her arm' Read the story on there. that really helped me through this.

Maybe you should make a doctors appointment about the sleeping eating thing. they will know what to do. i was really bad. i have my days not but i promise you it will get better. but the doctor or your parents are probebly the bast people to go to. i let my eating get out of hand and i am still fighting the battle to get out of that.

hope you get batter.