Dear Jasmine,
I hate my family and I feel like they hate me. I have been cutting since the 8th grade and I told my family that I had stop but honestly I have gotten worst.
My dad and mom constantly yell at me and my sisters make me feel so insignificant. One of my sisters just went to the hospital and isn’t coming home and now my other, the one my parents think is perfect, is going to move back in.
I fear when she does that my cutting will climax and I am going to cut to deep. I’m afraid to talk to my parents because well they don’t really listen too much. What am I too do? I don’t want live but I am afraid to die.
Erica
North Carolina
Dear Erica,
Cutting yourself is not the answer. Whatever problems you may be having, you need to gather enough courage to face them and over come them. Sure it is an easy thing to say but you need to look within yourself and realize that you are a person who deserves to be happy one day.
Cutting is only going to hurt and scar you for the rest of your life. If it doesn’t kill you it will kill you inside. Take a stand for yourself, give yourself a chance to be someone who can overcome this and believe in themselves.
Even though you may not believe it there are people out there who love you. Even though your family may not be the greatest at times, the truth is no one’s family is. Every family has their problems, their ups and downs but what sets them apart is how people handle them.
You have chose to hurt yourself even more then you are already hurting. Don’t do it, it’s not worth it to cut yourself. You have the ability to be happy and your not allowing yourself to that experience. You are not being fair to yourself and you are not giving yourself the chance to even have any happiness in your life because your hurting yourself physically and emotionally.
Don’t let other people control your mood and make you cut yourself. Control your own life, control your own emotions. Be strong and over come this and realize how important you are and what an impact you can make in this society.
Don’t let the pressures of family life, societies norms and what not get you down. Everyone goes through something that brings them down but they don’t let it keep them down. When you are at the bottom, you need to dig yourself out of the hole you created and climb yourself out of it.
Let your parents know that you are still cutting yourself. Let them know what is bothering you and try to work something out because no one wants you to cut yourself. You have your whole life ahead of you, don’t ruin your own life by cutting yourself. Do yourself a favor and be hero, save your own life.
Always here,
Jasmine
