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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:02:15

It's not that you need rehab (unless you also have an addiction to drugs or alcohol), but that you need to have your mental health properly diagnosed and treated; that treatment may involve medication and/or therapy.

Tell your school psychologist if financial issues or a lack of insurance is keeping you from seeing your family doctor or a pediatric psychiatrist.

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You need to stop and think about what is causing you to do this rather than surfing on a wave of emotion (or non-emotion) and finding you have cut yourself again.

At the base of this is always depression and low self esteem. If your doctor isn't helping, get rid and move on.

Good luck.

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go to a free clinic where they can give you things so you wont feel the need to do that anymore

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i've been there and it sucks.i have the scars i see every day. I think every one of your comments so far is right in some way.it is an attention things,just as it is a psychological thing. when i did it,i want attention and that was the easiest way to get it,but all it did was have people thinking negatively about me.I think your best bet is to think os something else to bypass it with.even just drawing or singing or perhaps going for a run.You have to try something else in order to stop it becoming habit.At one point,i was doing it daily when i was in a perfectly good mood-simply because it was a habit.You need to find a better outlet for your hurt,and you need to work out what is hurting you.The sooner you do that,the more chance there is of you pulling through.It's got to be a personal journey though-if someone else takes control,you will fall back in.you have to WANT to stop.x

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Wow! You could be telling my life story. If it helps, I made it out okay - I came out on the other side.