it's only a matter of time

[Babs]

before my mom finds out. summer's coming and I have a feeling it will be a really bad one. I will try to wear long sleeves whenever possible but she'll get suspicious. concealer never helps. I don't want her to ever find out I cut. what should I do if she does? when my she found out my sister cut she had her start taking ginseng tablets and st johns wort. (tbh I don't think they really do much) and I don't wanna deal with the inevitable long discussion that would happen if she found out. I don't know what to do.
what did you do when your parents found your cuts.

[Chrisscotland]

its horrible to know at some point people might see ur cuts and its hard work trying to hide them. my mum and dad found out recently that I cut and its been hard since, they are always watching me have taken me to the doctor to get tablets that will stop it and check my arms all the time.
i was terrified when they found out and so ashamed ive just tried to answer their questions and do wot they are telling me, its not stoping me wanting to cut though, I don't know wot would.

[Harley Quinn]

before my mom finds out. summer's coming and I have a feeling it will be a really bad one. I will try to wear long sleeves whenever possible but she'll get suspicious. concealer never helps. I don't want her to ever find out I cut. what should I do if she does? when my she found out my sister cut she had her start taking ginseng tablets and st johns wort. (tbh I don't think they really do much) and I don't wanna deal with the inevitable long discussion that would happen if she found out. I don't know what to do.
what did you do when your parents found your cuts.

The thing with self harm is, you're not going to be able to hide it forever and that's the sad reality of it. You're going to have to face people knowing, honestly, sometimes talking about it can help and can help you get to the point where you don't rely on self harm any more. Obviously, at the start it's never actually easy and parents don't usually take well to the fact their child is hurting themselves, but deep down they do actually care, they may have a weird way of showing it but hey ho. If you really don't want her to find out, you'll have to become sneakier with where you do it and what you wear, you could say your sprained said area and cover it up with a bandage, that usually does help too. But again, it won't last forever and you will have to come clean at some point.

[maddogmj77]

Well, my dad found out from going through my phone and he just wanted to know why I did it. If I didn't tell him, he would take away my phone until I told him. I convinced him to let me have my phone, and not tell him, if I would just stop cutting. That lasted about a week, then I started up again, worse than before. Right now, I'm going on 4 days. I'm not sure how to help, so I thought I might tell you what happened when my parents found out.

[Thatcarguy]

Ive never been in this situation because cutting has never gone through my head but just out of curiosity what are the pros to cutting and what does it do to you to get you through tough situations? Is it really that hard not to pick up your tool of choice?

[Babs]

Ive never been in this situation because cutting has never gone through my head but just out of curiosity what are the pros to cutting and what does it do to you to get you through tough situations? Is it really that hard not to pick up your tool of choice?

what are the pros of cutting? admittedly, there are none. for a while I did it to punish myself, now it relieves stress because it becomes addicting, and because of that, yes, it is very hard to not pick up my tool of choice.

in reply to the rest of the people who posted, I know I cant hide it forever. I guess my best option is to try to quit and if she ever sees it, tell her I used to, but i'm done with it. otherwise I don't know.