How do you know when you need help?

[Megson]

I hear some of you guys are seeing therapists about your SH. I've only been cutting again for a few weeks, and only when I feel like I need it. Since I started again, the longest I've gone without cutting is four days.

NO ONE knows about it. I don't plan to let anyone know, and I hide my cuts religously. But how far does it have to go before I absolutely need to let someone know and get help?

Also, did you guys tell someone about it? Or did someone just find out about it by accident?

[Aubrie]

I think you need help when you first consider it. Stop now, please. It only gets so much harder.

I told a few of my closest friends when I was desperate for help. Some people found out by accident because they didn't believe my lies.

Edit: My mom found out after she read my diary.

[Fiction]

I think when you're at the point where you can't stop, even if you wanted to, that's when you should get help. An addiction is an addiction, and you'll need help to stop.

I told a few friends, others found out. My parents found out when I ended up in hospital after overdosing, that's when I ended up in counselling.

[ShatteredGlass]

You need help as soon as you start ts an incredibly slippery slope to head down and you lose control before you even know you have. I told my mom after I talked to my school counselor about it. I implore you to talk to someone now. Whether you want to or not it's better for you to have someone to hold you accountable and someone who can moniter it. But you have got to stop. Whatever emotion you feel that you can only express through cutting you need to think about and asses and determine why and find an alternative. I will help anyway I can, but you can only stop when you make the decision to, so if you do seriously, PM me or even if you wanna talk because you think you have control but if you keep this up you won't.

[Megson]

I would like to stop... I've been taking the matter into my own hands. I count my SH free days, but sometimes I just feel the need to cut.

I don't feel like its that big of an issue that I would need to tell my parents, or anyone else. I'm not comfortable with people knowing personal things about me, and I hate asking for (or even getting) help from people. It makes me feel weak and worthless. It always has, long before my SH started.