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health advisory Hospital Mental Health 2007-11-15 19:02:17

Speak gently with her about how much she means to you and how concerned you are about her, and try to convince her to get help in finding other (safer, healthier) ways of dealing with life's problems.

If you approach her with anger or are overly aggressive, you will likely do more harm than good.

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Because she can't handle the pain of her life or whatever the case may be so she replces it with a different pain, something she herself can control. Get her some professional help.

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She is emo. Not saying that to be mean but it is the truth. She feels like if she cuts herself, well, pain feels good sometimes if you know what I mean. She thinks she is releasing her pain by cutting herself.

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Three things: control, attention, confusion.

SHE has control over doing it or not, where she does it, and what she does it for. My best guess is that she doesn't have that power over other things which is why she wants to control this. She needs to have things she's in control of. A good idea would be for her to join a sports team. Then she can use the team events and practices as a means of getting away from her parents, and she can have control over something all of her own.

SHE gets attention for it. Obviously. But that's the most difficult part. If you don't pay attention then she could do things more dangerous to get attention. No advice on this one.