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We're absolutely floored, easy child has been cutting for a year...
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<blockquote data-quote="AnnieO" data-source="post: 416286" data-attributes="member: 6705"><p>Oh, sweetie.</p><p> </p><p>Unfortunately, this is actually really common. I wish I had some words of wisdom for you... But I don't. I do have lots of hugs.</p><p> </p><p>Don't think about the adoption that way. I believe it was easy child that was with you in 2009? Beautiful young lady... (Unless I am WAY off...)</p><p> </p><p>Usually the cutting is surface, and it really does not bleed much - because it's more about having control, over the pain and what causes it, than it is about actual suicide. YES, it indicates there is something wrong, and if she said she was depressed and needed help? Then she is doing better than the "average" cutter. And the deep gash may have been a way of getting help sooner, rather than later.</p><p> </p><p>When I was a teenager - I didn't cut, but I would get frustrated and smack myself in the head, or on the arm with a brush - interesting bruises. If anyone had seen them, even then, the authorities would have been called. It was my way of punishing myself for not being able to control whatever it was I was frustrated with. It was a joke, then - that I would get so frustrated with my hair - but that was the symptom. I really, really needed counseling. And I never asked. I'm sure if I said this to my parents, now, they would blame themselves for not seeing it. But, really - kids are great at hiding things.</p><p> </p><p>More hugs, hon. Let us know what happens. Please...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AnnieO, post: 416286, member: 6705"] Oh, sweetie. Unfortunately, this is actually really common. I wish I had some words of wisdom for you... But I don't. I do have lots of hugs. Don't think about the adoption that way. I believe it was easy child that was with you in 2009? Beautiful young lady... (Unless I am WAY off...) Usually the cutting is surface, and it really does not bleed much - because it's more about having control, over the pain and what causes it, than it is about actual suicide. YES, it indicates there is something wrong, and if she said she was depressed and needed help? Then she is doing better than the "average" cutter. And the deep gash may have been a way of getting help sooner, rather than later. When I was a teenager - I didn't cut, but I would get frustrated and smack myself in the head, or on the arm with a brush - interesting bruises. If anyone had seen them, even then, the authorities would have been called. It was my way of punishing myself for not being able to control whatever it was I was frustrated with. It was a joke, then - that I would get so frustrated with my hair - but that was the symptom. I really, really needed counseling. And I never asked. I'm sure if I said this to my parents, now, they would blame themselves for not seeing it. But, really - kids are great at hiding things. More hugs, hon. Let us know what happens. Please... [/QUOTE]
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