
Self-Injury Support Group
Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.

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Have any of you told members of your families that you SI? I never have. But is that right? Do they deserve to know or is it pointless putting them through the pain of knowing what you do?
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For me, personally, it was unhelpful having them know because they didn't understand it at all.
When ever my mum notices any inflected bruising or cuts all she says is "Had another stupid moment did you?"... Really not helpful.
But i think family WANTS to know.
It really depends, if you have an understanding family then you should tell them.
But if its only going to cause more damage, i wouldn't advise it.
If one of my family members got into it, i would want to know so i could try and help them.
But yeah... it really depends on the kind of family you have in my opinion!
Once or twice I used his advice but I felt I was hurting him because again he took it as it was his fault....
Now I will not say anything to him, and I am shocked he has not found my latest. Thankfully by the time he does locate the scars I can tell him they were old.