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Know that we at the BeachHouse Student Ministries and Trinity Presbyterian Church will do everything we can to support you. We will pray with you and for you. If there is anything we can do for you, please do not hesitate to call. Here are those resources we promised. All of these links will open in new windows so you won't loose this page.
Survivor's Wall - Students who were stuck in anorexia, bulimia & cutting and have overcome them.
- Blurty.com - real life web diaries from teens who cut about thier life. Caution: this is raw, uncensored emotions of real teens telling the way they really feel about their lives right now. Discressionary viewing is encouraged.
Articles to Read
Finding Help
- Celebrate Recovery - a local support group helping people past lifes hurts, habits, & hang ups.
- Helping those who hurt themselves - Unfortunately, there is no magic cure for self-inflicted violence. However, there are some things which you can do (and some things you shouldn't do) which can help those individuals who are hurting themselves.
- alternatives - resist the urge to cut, try these ideas instead
- ChristianAnswers.net - my panel will disagree with some stuff on this site, but they do have an extensive list of books, articles & resources for you.
- Mirror-Mirror.org - helpful article with tips to help you overcome the urge to cut.
- SelfInjury.net - a site designed by people who struggle with depression everyday in an effort to help others.
Poetry that speaks volumes
- My Poem
im going to write a poem.
a poem with a twist.
i'll write it with a razor
i'll write it on my wrist.
and when i write this poem
a fountain will apear.
with this pretty fountain
all my problems will disapear.
- annon
- where I make friends
with my sorrow
I feel used
and I want to cry out to my mother again
like i did when i was six
and she would come and wrap her arms around my little body
and make everything okay
I wish she could come right now..
and make me happy
But if she saw me
would she scream?
Would she hesistate to touch my broken
bloody body?I have no one
Nobody can touch a being like me
- by masterpissant, a Blurty.com user
- Why does it hurt YOU when your FRIENDS cut? How deep does friendship go?
You see, my friends are my life, most people my age depend on their friends as their support, as their trust, because they can chose their friends, and they chose them to know they're gonna be there. Once you have a friend you are gonna be with them for a long time. Many examples will prove this point. But when I have a friend, I consider them a part of me...they are in my heart...they pump my blood and keep me alive. If they are hurting themselves, they are hurting my heart, they are slicing away at their skin, well then they're doing the same to me *why i wear my bracelets*, Everytime my friends takes that razor and brings it across their wrist, they are taking blood from my body, from my heart and letting it leave them... it's like they might as well just cut me instead of themselves cause i feel it more than them. About the bracelets, a lot of people that do wear bracelets, wear them for that reason. Because they want to cover up marks, scars, etc. You could take my bracelets off and see clean wrists, but I wear them for symbolism, I promise. I want my friends to know I feel what they feel, if not more. Again with the bracelets, that is why they're there.
- by N.B., a Ground Zero 9th grader
- Scars
Scars I want to fade
Scars your lies made
Scars running inside of me
Scars of what I was changing to be
Scars I wish would go away
Scars showing me a brighter day
Scars I can no longer hide
Scars of the skin I deprived
Scars that show you how you make me feel
Scars that will never heal
Scars of my past
Scars of my feelings that will never last
Scars of wrong turns
Scars of my heart stinging with burns
Scars of me being dumb
Scars making me numb
Scars of all this grief
Scars showing some kind of relief
Scars that wont end
Scars of my non-existing heart trying to mend
Scars of blood that wont stop
Scars showing my stress level pasted the top
Scars of what people put my through
Scars of me needing you
Scars showing I'm done
Scars showing you have won
Scars showing what I took
Scars that make people look
Scars of you lie
Scars helping me die
Scars of what I can take
Scars my razor helped make
Scars showing my hate
Scars showing your to late
Scars I cant fix
Scars of all the blood that was to mix
Scars of the blood that trinkled down
Scars of my frown
Scars of ways I felt
Scars of my life melting
Scars of you no longer there
Scars of my just standing here
Scars that are so true
Scars of me tired and blue
Scars of my life
Scars of a new knife
Scars of things to change
Scars of my out of control rage
Scars of me holding back tears
Scars of me showing my deepest fears
Scars of water felling up my eyes
Scars of my life slowly saying goodbye
Scars showing all my anger
Scars putting my life through danger
Scars of all your glory
Scars telling my life in one big story
- by an 8th grade young lady in Ohio
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