What did your parents/friends do when it turned out that you are self-harming?

[zizu]

What did your parents do when it turned out that you are self-harming?I'm just wondering if they did or said anything when it turned out.
Did your friends know?Did they say anything?
I am really interested in your stories.

[Fanta_Lover44]

Well, i ended up telling a freind, they where shocked because i use to be really happy, they just said to tell someone, and they left it there as they don't really care about me a lot. My parents never found out and they arnt going to either.

[Harley Quinn]

At first they did the whole caring parent routine, checking up on me, taking away my things, making sure I didn't have new cuts etc. Then after about a year of that they got bored and left me to it, in some ways they also got more bitchy about it but that's okay. Rather that than the whole checking my body routine they did. They didn't want me getting help, said it was a phase and whenever they refer to it now it's also like 'Oh Siobhan also went through this phase' so that's cool.

My friends didn't really care, most of them also self harmed so it was nothing new to them.

[Mob Boss]

My parents never knew. Well, to my knowledge they never knew. My oldest sister saw scars and fresh cuts down my left shoulder and top of my back when a shirt I was wearing slid off my shoulder. I didn't notice it, and we were in line at a grocery store with a handful of people right behind us. My sister saw them, started laughing and said "Having fun there? Are you emo all of a sudden?". Then a boy in my senior class saw when we were forced to take off jackets for a freaking science lab. I tried laying my, then extremely long, hair over my shoulders, but he saw anyways. I gave him the whole"my cat scratched me" excuse. Instead of buying it, he jerked my arm and showed his friend and they both started laughing. Then he said to the entire class "Did everyone know Bridgette cuts?". :/ So that's why I've always been ashamed of it. But, no, my parents don't know. I'm pretty sure my mom does, as I'd leave cut up razors and bloody washrags in my bathroom when it'd slip my mind to toss them. She probably just looked the other way about it as she's always done, or just didn't care enough to bother bringing it up like my ED. Meh, so that's my story and everyone's reaction.

[Miserabilia]

Are you emo all of a sudden? and he said to the entire class "Did everyone know Bridgette cuts?"
that sounds horrible, i would atleast imagine your sister to have a little more sympathy.
I once cut myself but nobody knows/noticed, and I hope they never do...

[Mob Boss]

that sounds horrible, i would atleast imagine your sister to have a little more sympathy.
I once cut myself but nobody knows/noticed, and I hope they never do...

Hah. Yeah, really lonely, bad year for me. XD No, my sister can't comprehend that people may be struggling with issues that don't involve, like, boys or makeup. She's never understood my ED, even told her friends when all of us were going grocery shopping, that anything we'd buy me to eat, I would throw up. But, my family really doesn't understand anything relatively outside of the norm when it comes to emotions or struggles. It's all a facade for attention to them, so that's why they know very little about me. :)

[muffin with a knife]

My parents made me stop hanging out with my only friend. They thought she made me do it. Since then it went from bad to worse, but they never did anything.

[germangirl]

My mother cried after a teacher told her I cut myself. Since this day she just ignores it and never again asked or something. My father didn’t talk to me a few days and still doesn’t care. My best friend stayed calm and helped me a lot after I told her. My other friends (who finally got to know everything in PE one day) reacted differently: some seemed to care and were like “oh my god, why are you doing this to yourself?” but I never told them so they stopped asking and ignore it now; others were like “what? You cut yourself? Didn’t know you’re such a freak...” (by the way, that aren’t real friends) and yeah, of course there were a few who made fun of it in the first place, called me names like emo or attention-seeker.. Probably these reactions are the reason why I never wanted anyone to know and I still feel uncomfortable showing my scars. Most of the people just can’t understand.

[Conqueror of Hearts]

My mum made me say I wont do it again and that I'll come to her if I feel down. Of course I didn't stop, and I didn't talk to her about my issues... we do have a good mother-daughter relationship, but i always end up giving her advice, cause I never talk about my feelings. Non of my friends know, though I want for a long time to tell by best friend, but i'm just so afraid of her reaction.

[ArtistInNeed]

my mom first found out when my guidance counselor at school sent me to the crisis center because my cutting was getting worse and the doctor had to see my cuts and when i showed him my mom was like "where!? let me see!" she was very insensitive about it and didnt quite understand. she still doesnt understand. in her mind i stopped but she doesnt know the half of it. that was 6 years ago she thought i stopped and was "healthy"

[tubanic]

My parents told me to stop biting and scratching my hands but they didn't do it very forcefully. My mum doesn't understand why I cut with a blade and makes insensitive comments about it. My dad insists on seeing my arm every so often, but it doesn't matter because I have started cutting on my breasts and they won't know. I don't have any friends so I don't know.

[amour]

My mom got suspicious and asked me. I denied it. She still thinks I do but I hide it well. My best friend, who is a online friend, she cares and is here for me. My brother found out through her, he hasn't said anything but she said he was shocked.