it’s also possible to report your concerns to a counselor or even teacher at the school and they can then be aware of the situation and watch for signs as well.

Hiding your feels doesn’t make them go away. It just means that they need to find another way to get released. And the worst thing is that buried feelings don’t usually find a healthy outlet. You need to find someone that you can talk to about those feelings and learn ways to deal with them more effectively.

Hurting yourself with buried feelings only creates more buried feels of pain that will need to eventually find a way out as well. Stuffing problems and pain only creates a vicious circle that gets more and more difficult to break the longer you continue such an unhealthy way of dealing with it.

I do believe what you say about it not always being a way to get attention…

“Many people believe that teens who cut themselves are doing it simply for the attention but in all actuality this may not be the case.”

However, Thinking that cutting yourself is a healthy way to help yourself is a confusing concept. Can you help us understand how hurting yourself by cutting your own precious body is actually helping you? Isn’t there some other way to help yourself, as you say, other than harming your own body in the process?

Sometimes we develop methods of coping with problems as a child that seem to be the only way available to us. But when we reach adulthood, we need to question these coping mechanisms that may really be more harmful then helpful. Just consider the possibility that just maybe there is another way that might be just as helpful and not harmful to you at the same time.