Stop her from hurting herself

my best friend once did that and we talked her out of that. we just confronted her about it. that was it. we talked to her. and she kinda just got out of it. Tina

you should help her find some support :) encourage her to tell someone, and get counselling etc. You can go to your local doctor or clinic and ask for help there. Tell her you love her and that its not only affecting her but its hurting the people around her. I really hope this helps and I wish you the best of luck :) xx

Well professional help would be probably the best thing for your girlfriend but personally if I was her I wouldn’t personally like that advice. What I could suggest is talk to her about whats going on with her life, and whats causing her to feel like that tell her how its making you feel cause its the last thing that any boyfriend wants to see from their girlfriend’s. Have a long night talk and if she needs to cry just tell her its fine to cry, cry with her if you need to and just light up the conversation a little bit from time to time by telling her how much you love her and despite everything you will still love her. She might have some bad experience that people might have looked down at her telling her shes worthless or she’s not good enough for anything, and those type of words are what really bring people down and lead to this kind of stuff especially if it comes from the people whos really special to them. By talking about her feelings and letting it out, will give her a good feeling about herself, im not sure but she could go back at cutting herself anytime even if its just a day cause it will be still there even though she felt good about herself for once, so you have to keep this going as much as you can to make her happy, and make sure she doesn’t keep her feelings and thought to herself. :]

hope I help :) take care, god bless! x

See if you cant convince her to get some professional help. It is highly doubtful that you’ll be able to help her stop yourself (dont guilt trip her, when I used to self harm, nothing made me want to do it more than someone telling me that I was hurting them). Look, cutting is something that makes her feel better. You will never be able to take that place… because no one can be around 24/7, not to mention there’s no way you can stop her from getting hurt… so dont try and fix her problems, that will just set you up for failure. What you can do is be there for her, it’s the most you can, understand that she is not doing it to hurt you (it has nothing to do with you), and that she’s in a lot of pain… but def talk to her about counseling… and this site is pretty helpful if you want more info about stuff http://www.palace.net/~llama/psych/injury.html