what did you do?

[lamentation]

what did you do when people found out you SH? how did you react?

[Kaius]

I cut more to be honest. Though when my parents originally found out they started to hide anything i could potentially harm myself with and locked it all away. It never lasted long, though it felt like it went on for months when actually it was weeks.

[FullyAlive]

I was confronted about it by the Assitant Head. She said something about the possibility that i had been self harming had been reported my head of year and then to her and she needed me to take my blazer off. Obviously my instinct was to deny it, which I did whilst refusing to remove my blazer. She told me that this was basically admitting it. I went on about my privacy. Around 15 minutes later i took my blazer off and she looked at my arm. She was really nice, supportive caring. But she phoned my mother so u hated her for a while.

When my friends told me it was them who reported it, i was really embarrassed. However they too were really good about it. They were worried, concerned but supportive and helpful. They really proved themselves as my best friends.

My mother too reacted positive and supportive but I couldn't take it. I hated the way she acted around me. It would have been a lot easier had she hated me. She no linger knows now and I prefer it that way. She used to check my arm and wrist but now she doesn't bother she thinks its stopped.

Buy whilst I had all the support I could possibly want I like Aaron, cut more. The self harming i was doing escalated dramatically and hasn't decreased since.

[Fiction]

My parents didn't really react that badly... I don't know. I overdosed the same night they found out, I think they where a little more preoccupied with that. After that though my mum questioned me about blood on my sheets, and after one incidence when there was in her eyes "a lot of blood" she made me show her. She has at times occasionally asked if i've "hurt myself" latley. She's also used it against me, but mostly we just don't mention it.

[love is louder]

my best friend that lives with me is the only person that knows. when she found out she had a HUGE go at me telling me i could accidentally kill myself and all that shit but once she calmed down (after a week or so) she was nice to me and we havent spoke of it since.

[Syvelocin]

Well, different things happened since I had different episodes of people finding out. My stepdad noticed it first, when my mum was off on a trip. As a matter of fact, he noticed it the night I did it. He was curious because I had an arm warmer on my left arm, and I guess the tissue I had under it to help the bleeding was more obvious than I thought it would be... he didn't say anything at the time, but phoned my mum and confronted me about it in the morning.

It wasn't that bad, really. My stepdad just took it like he takes everything. Concerned, but calm. My mum had some issues, because her way of dealing with it was blaming it on her mistakes as a parent. Well.. you could actually debate whether that caused it or not. But she never did any of that on purpose, so her blaming herself was harder on me than if she blamed it on me, or a friend of mine, or something like that.

The only thing I hate was that self-harm was never my little secret. It was a family issue from day one. It seemed like everything I went through was a family issue. Of course, my brother and sister don't know much about any of that but I think they've gotten a hint that I have something going on with me.

Now, when my friends found out... bleh. They figured out like they did, with the arm warmers, but they caught on much later. I don't know which one, but one of them ratted me out to the counsellor. That was perfect...

Everyone else who found out from there, either just assumed it calmly because by that point I stopped hiding it, or I just directly told them.

[Bath]

Nobody found out at one specific time. I still sometimes get "OMG U CUT?!?!?" if my sleeve slips down or something like that. I just make them feel like an asshole and say, "it took me a lot of courage to get out of the house this morning actually because I was afraid of somebody noticing, thanks." If they're nice about it and confront me in private of course I'm not mean, but I'm not Ms.Sunshine either, I hate talking about it, so I just give straightforward answers and then tell them to drop it.

I can be a bitch about it but who can blame me, it's my personal business and I honestly don't think I'm ever going to recover because I don't want to. So what's it to them?

[Fruit_Tart.]

Gasps. Looks. Sometimes not so bad reactions.

[Ambrosia]

No one major has ever found out. Sometimes people point out that I have scars and my reaction is I get very COLD and nervous. I went to the doctor her recently and they saw my scars and asked if I selfharmed. She was very calm about it and told me how she cared for her patients and asked me to talk to the "Head nurse practioner" so I got up and left.

[FullyAlive]

And....
I spoke to soon. Mum saw my wrist today. She asked if I was doing that again. Fuck off! She got mad, going on about how I shouldn't be spending so much time in my room. Erm fuck yes I should!! I don't like you or my dad or Alex I'm not spending time with you. Just get me help and leave me alone!

[Charleigh]

Nothing. I didnt and couldnt give a shit. Its not peoples job to interfear with my life. So they can un-interfear off.

[Immortal Love]

Well it depended on the person. When my mother found out, I got all worried and scared since she yelled and didn't understand. When some friends found out, I only Cut more often because their words hurt. Now that the school Officer, and couciler know, I trt to be more secrative about where I do Cut, since with my luck, the day after I do it on my arms, they'd probably decide to check me.

[beag_amhain]

my parents dont know, jus think im a troubled depressed anti-social cheeky b**ch, but my friends know, they all kind of took it differently, i didnt tell any of them, they just knew, my best friend understands why i do it n if she knows ive done it she makes me show her cuz shes training to b a nurse n tinks its gonna get infected, another always fights with me over it bu i know he just cares, so everyone just reacts differently, i find it helps that they know bu other times i hate that they do cuz its not just me who gets the effect of it anymore
they get upset r angry n i jus get upset, so i try not to talk to them bout it, but that doesn work very well anymore

[Roses_Are_Yellow]

I told one of my friends who I knew cut. She acted like I told her the weather, which I was happy about :) :)

....now if anyone else were to find out, they'd ALL probably flip out and think I was some phsycho....