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Did you speak to the counsellor then? Or did you stop cutting yourself because you were too afraid to go to the counsellor.You should definately think about getting some professional help here.
I had a 'cutting' habit about 6 years ago (for different reasons to yours) but I got help and can't imagine doing it again.
Take care.

Eww, An emo f**k face.

to lockets i did see the counsler and it helped

i did see the counsler and it did help

Why do you need advice? Its simple... Stop cutting your self and get has much out of the time you have with the counsler. You already knew this..

Ok, if it helped you, then why don't you go back again for more? Maybe more in depth this time, maybe a different counsellor, you know you need to stop this somehow.

wtf

cut your slef if you die you die happy

if you are a girl the that is really hot, i like girls that cut themselves they are usually hot

please no one leave mean comments i am in a really bad mental state right now and don't tell me to kill myself either

God help me, but I'd have to say that Spam's advice is spot on. Cutting may be said to be a safety valve for releasing inner pain, but after the initial slice or two, what purpose is really served?

My mom died seven years ago, and it was a very unpleasant death at that. However, as Spam observed, I know she would have wanted me to come to terms with her death and get on with my life, remembering the happy times. And that's precisely what I've done. Knowing that there is nothing you can do that will bring your mother back, please try to concentrate on the things that you still DO have in your life -- your father, your friends, your school work, and whatever else gives you joy.

Three years is a long time to continue with the kind of profound grief that you seem to be experiencing. If you cannot cope with this on your own, please speak to a trusted older friend or family member about getting appropriate counseling. It's great that you made some strides in dealing with your problem by discussing it here, but you need to take the next step by working it through with a professional if things don't improve. Good luck to you.

Hell I still do it sometimes... so... all I have a right to say is be careful.

Spam,
There are at least two ways to interpret this post... the first one being that she likes the pain.
The second being that she needs attention so badly that she will slice her own flesh.
considering she LOST HER MOTHER... its not hard to understand how she may be lacking some forms of attention and affection.

you are cool if you are emo

i'm a guy just so u know

i'm not emo i'm just some one who is depressed and i need a way to vent it and this is the only way i know how i need help...

Oh, sorry.

don't kill yourself the world needs emo people

You dont know what depressed means. You are an attention seeker is all. Come back when you can say you been depressed for over 20 years and I might listen. In 20 years of serious depression I have never once sliced myself. I have thought about it but it doesn't seem to me to be an answer so I never have.
Maybe you just lack inteligence. You obviously don't think it through!

Hi there Depressed water ^_^
I just wanted to put my pennysworth into this little debate, firstly i hope you are ok today and i hope you havent felt the need to hurt yourself,

i want to see if your situation mirrors my experience in any way, i have self harmed since a young age coincidently when my father was involved in a car accident,
although thankfully the accident wasen't fatel it left our family a wreck as a result, my dad was afflicted with mental illnesses one of them being depression, he just changed over night everything changed our whole family structure, our relationships with one another, mental illness threw my perfectly stable happy family into a blender and ruined it (for a long time) and that was hard to cope with being so young (12 at the time).

I'm posetive no one here would contest that loseing your mother in a accident at a young age like you did would not have a detrimental effect on your life as well, and altering it considerably.

As a result i became anxious, when you live with someone with mental health problems its like your walking on broken glass...i became even more anxious untill finaly my anxiaty reached its peak and i self harmed,did the same thing happen to you? Or was your self harm triggerd by depression?

Alot of people make the asumption that self harm is unequivicaly linked to depression, it isent. it is however indisputably linked with anxiaty. I have never experienced depression and indeed am extremly greatfull for this but i have self harmed due to extreme anxiety for the past 8 years on and off.

To everyone else that just can't seem to fathom why someone would cut/burn/scratch/irritate or poison themselves because they have suffered with depression and they dident engage in that kind of behavior, let me just say, we all cope in different ways to things, self harm is a copeing mechenism albiet not a health one i agree but one all the same and its also highly addictive i should know..self harm is coplex like most addictive behavior. when the body is in pain endorphins are released which are our bodys natural pain-killer opiates, like heroin and morphine and just like people can get addicted to drugs that simulate endorphines people can get addicted to endorphines themselves i.e pain.

depressedwater i hope some of this makes sense to you and that you feel like i'v given you some helpfull insight because for me when i had to stop this (and there's no doubt about it you do need to stop sometime),insight into the reasons why i engaged in this behaviour were invaluble to me, was it depression,was it stress, anxiaty, addiction all of that is relavent if you want to quite the behaviour you need to figure out what it is that keeps you doing this (your 'Triggers' if you will)

keep in contact i'd like to know how you get on and if you ever need to talk about things i want you to know you can talk to me, openly and without judgement *scouts honor*

please visit this site for the complete in a nutshell on this kind of behavior maybee it'll help.i hope it does. >_<
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/self_injury.htm

this is also an intressting paper about the physiology of pain addiction..take a peek.
http://www.thepositivemind.com/tpm/aboutpainanddullnessarticle.html

take care and stay safe

that was a lot more than a pennies worth

thanks for that i think that it is going to help in a way in the long run... i'm glad to see there's people on here who arn't just here to talk bad about people and discorage them...

nearly you should know everyone handles depression in different ways. Now you just sound like an ignorant asshole.

are you nearly?

He is telling a kid that he is not depressed. Over the internet. Is that not assuming too much?

Anyway, I am touchy on this because I had troubled teenage years, and its easy to say that the pain is invalid, but its fucking not.

ummm.... u guys who read my post can yall give me new ways to deal with depression instead of cutting cause i need to quit...

Medication
therapy
excersize
hobbies
snapping rubber bands on your hands or really cold showers.
making friends and getting the hell out of the house.
And you are probably too young, but sex.

You know all that already, I am sure. There is no magic cure, you just have to do something about it, and no one can say a few magic words to get you that motivated to change online.

just cut deeper and free up some oxygen for other less dumb people in the world!

yes, that is true... oops.

go to sedona.com and watch the free video

y not use a blunt knife??????????????

first off to that kid Atomicway (12797) ur an ass fucker second i have cut myself for 4 years it is a bad habbit to stop it wrap ur arms and they wont tempt u trust me this is how i stopped. if u ever need to talk im here for u My email is gatagroove04@aol.com pleez i think it would be a good idea to talk to someone that has lost their mother as well