Thank you ALL for all your help in answering my last question, but I don't know what to say.?

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Hey thank you guys so much for your thoughts on my last question! It made me smile and feel like people cared! :o')!
A few of you started this, but what do I say to them (my parents)? We don't have much (any really) money, I have 6 siblings, and there's no way I can tell my dad. (He has ADHD, he'll get mad @ first) so I think I'm gunna go with my mom, but, WHAT DO I SAY??!
I'd apreciate your help on this!
Julia~

Answers:
i remember that age.

i used to think about putting a gun to my head or swallowing all of the painkillers in the medicine cabinet.
it would have been sooo simple.
then, i had a moment of clarity and realized that i needed help. i knew i needed to tell my mom (dad and i didn't get along).

so, i just told her. i was scared and feeling horrible and bawling my eyes out and just told her that i needed help and i was lost in my life.

i recommend the same to you. there's no "easy" way to tell her. just find a moment to sit down with her and tell her about your life and how you feel and tell her that you hurt yourself and why you think you do it.if you know.
it's not easy, but you feel better once it's out there and you know that you're not alone in this. the time that you're alone is when you're keeping the secrets inside and seperating yourself from your family and friends more and more each day.

please take care darlin and just so you know..life does get better. i'm the happiest i've ever been in my life right now. you truly do create YOUR happiness;)

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How about sitting down with your mom in a private setting for starters - someplace where you won't likely be interupted and where you'll have her undivided attention.

Tell her first what has led up to you feeling depressed (or whatever feeling you're having that's causing you to self-mutilate). After you've explained your feelings and what, if anything, you've done to try to prevent this behavior, tell her that you've found an unhealthy way of dealing with the situation, and that is cutting.

Explain to her that you want to stop and that you need her help. Tell her what you want her to do to help you and also explain your fear about your father's reactions.

Good luck.

Say that again!:-)

Sweetie I can only assume that you are pregnant.
And if this is the case your mom will probably be upset somewhat as well,but that is only because she still looks at you as HER BABY and she always will.Don't be afraid of her she will come to grips with this whatever it may be and soon understand and will be THE ONE who stands by you through it all.

Just sit her down and say
Mom I love you,you have been there for me for ever and I know you always will.I am sorry for all the times I have disappointed you in the past,but you was there for me then and I really need you now,so please don,t be to disappointed in me but. and tell her what it is you want her to know.

This is the girl who wants to tell her parents she has been inflicting incisions on her own body - "cutting" herself.

Honey, tell your mom, ask her to go out to lunch with you or to dinner, and tell her that you are very scared to say what you are about to say, and please not to be angry with you. She may still get mad but you have to tell her. It takes a strong person to tell someone something that you know will make them mad. You can do it.

I'm cheering for you.
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I'm a mom, and I'd want my daughter to tell me something like this.

PLEASE GO HERE ASAP http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/problems/resisting_cutting.html

YOU'LL FEEK BETTER AFTER READING THIS AND YOU CAN EVEN FIND GOOD FRIENDS..

I don't have any answers for you, since I didn't read the last message but the person who gave the link to the website for cutting, seems to have given you the best advice. I'm just telling you, that my heart is with you.

Maybe you could have a trusted friend be with you when you tell your mother. A little moral support couldn't hurt.

Whatever you do, remember, times will get better if you continue to make the effort to stop. Your mental wounds will heal in time.

I, thank God, found different ways to cope with my stress. My mother tried three times to murder me. I got even with her by learning to love and make something of myself.

You are a precious person and you deserve the best life has to offer. Check out the website on cutting. You deserve to love and be loved. You have taken that important first step. Now, read the web site and then talk to your Mom. She loves you.

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