How to Stop Self Mutilation?
Question by lindsay schill: How to stop self mutilation?
I’m 15 years old, in 11th grade and I’ve been self mutilating on and off since 6th grade.
I suffer from really bad social & general anxiety, but nothing that has ever been diagnosed. I’ve been mentioning my anxiety problems to my mother for a while now and every time that I do she blows me off and then tells everyone I was “looking for attention”.
I recognize how harmful that self mutilation is, and I’ve been trying to stop ever since I’ve started. I’ve gone 2 weeks, 8 months, 12 months without cutting but I always end up relapsing. Mostly because it’s the only way I know how to cope with my anxiety(aside from alcohol, but I don’t like to use that), and there isn’t anyway my mom will get me into therapy. She doesn’t know I cut. My mother has Depression, diagnosed but possibly incorrectly Bipolar, Panic Attacks, Fibromyalgia, Memory Loss, Chronic Lower Back Pain, and is generally either raging and being verbally/emotionally abusive(a major cause of my anxiety) or is out stone cold sleeping. Telling her about my cutting would do more harm than good, so I wanna try to stop cutting without her knowing in the first place.
I attend one of the best high schools in my district, and I don’t want to put myself in a precarious position by being found out as a *gasp* cutter.
Any tips or suggestions on how to stop would be greatly appreciated.
Best answer:
Answer by barry
View http://www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org/fibromyalgia_treatment.html & http://chronicfatigue.about.com/b/2011/01/25/vitamin-d-for-fibromyalgia-chronic-fatigue-syndrome.htm
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Dr. John Cannell, of www.vitaminDcouncil.org advises that the co-factors most often deficient in the American diet, and necessary to optimise its absorption, and utilisation are magnesium, zinc, boron, and vitamin K2 ( http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/03/26/the-delicate-dance-between-vitamins-d-and-k.aspx ). I recommend using either health food/vitamin stores, or preferably http//www.lifespannutrition.com/products.asp?catagory=Vitamin%20D or Mercola.com (check them out on vitamin K2 as well; the MK7 isomer which they use is several times more active than other types, and they ensure the highest quality available; I often use their products, although not exclusively). Give the EFT a good tryout, to see if it helps you. It is free via the searchbar at Mercola.com “EFT” *& “EFT therapists” (also view: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/26/dr-john-lowe-on-thyroid-disease-part-1.aspx ) or www.tapping.com or www.eftuniverse.com or www.emofree.com Professional is best. – There is a version for use in public places*, (if you like, you can claim to have a headache, as you massage/lightly tap your temples, but you would then be restricted to subvocalising: saying it to yourself in your mind: “Even though I have fibromyalgia, I deeply and completely accept myself.” One home remedy I have heard of is scalding hot showers (careful). View: http://www.everydayhealth.com/fibromyalgia/treating/fibromyalgia-alternative-treatments.aspx & http://www.everydayhealth.com/fibromyalgia/treating-fibromyalgia-with-excercise.aspx and the other articles; also: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/02/26/dr-john-lowe-on-thyroid-disease-part-1.aspx S-Adenosyl methionine (SAMe), a derivative of the amino acid methionine that can help with depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia. Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/028498_antidepressants_clinical_trials.html#ixzz1KtCUZGol and http//www.cidpusa.org/FIBROMYALGIA1.html may be worth looking at.
Answer by tod m
check for diabetes, avoid sugar.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1887272/does_hypoglycemia_and_low_blood_sugar.html
eat whole grains, they’ll help keep your blood sugar stable.