My daughter?

Question

My daughter is 12 years old, and I found out a while ago she was cutting herelf and trying to kill herself, what do I do??

Answer 1

Call your local hospital, they normally have a mental health unit that will interview your daughter and make recommendations. They may recommend she be put into an inpatient facility until they can find out what is going on or they may just set up an appointment for her to see and therapist to talk about what is going on. Whatever you do, dont ignore it and hope it will go away, it wont, and eventually she will get addicted to cutting and will always do it or go to far.

Answer 2

Have You Sat Down And Really talked about It? Sometimes When you just take Them Straight To Someone Else. It Kinda Makes Them Feel Like You Don't Wanna deal With They're Crap. Maybe You Should Have A Really Serious Talk About how She feels. Let Her Know She Can really Confide In You. And If She Does Don't tell ANYONE Else.... Kuz Then She'll feel betrayed. Coming From Experience, maybe She Feels Alone. maybe Things In Her Day Just Don't go Right Or her Expectations Of certain Things Dont Go Her Way... There has To Be Some Kinda Problem And You Need To Find The Source. Not Only Will She Have Her mom by her Side... But She'll be Gaining A New Best Friend....

Answer 3

You know i used to deal with that everyday where i used to live but taking her to a counselling session is not just enough to help her really the question you should be asking is what the problem is and how can we both work to fix the problem. this is just advice take you daughter to the GP as depression is caused by a chemical unbalanced in your brain so she needs to be properly medicated for her symptoms depending on how depressed she is, but also it helps to talk to your daughter but if she doesn't want to or doesn't feel comfortable ask her who she is more comfortable talking to if all else fails and she is still cutting herself take her to counselling sessions and if that fails the only last resort is a rehab(or mental illness centre) but those options are very much last resort and i know it seems cruel but it could end up worse than it already is. well i hope your daughter is alright and she gets the helps she needs. good luck.

Answer 4

She sounds like an EMO, which means she is an emotional kid who thinks she needs to punish herself!! She is only young so I hope you can get her out of this before the body piercings start! My 18 yo daughter had the same problem when she was younger but luckily she survived it, she used to cut herslf and still does sometimes when she is sad. Lots of kids cut nowadays.
Just give her love and support because she needs you so much now! Let her know you are there because there will be hard times ahead for you both!! Good Luck!!!

Answer 5

You really must get some help for her. My son has a friend that was cutting herself and shes almost died from it. The best thing you can do for your daughter is get her into counselling right away!. You might even think about doing as a family unit.
She really is crying out for help so be there to answer her cry.
It is so hard today to be a teenager, with all the pressures that are out there.
I have to teenage boys and every time they tell me about something that has happened i cringe.
Good luck sweetie.

Answer 6

Get that girl some type of psychologicsl help, quickly. First, sit down with her and let her know that you are there for her if she has any secrets she need to address and don't get weary and scared if she talks about them. She doesn't want to scare you is the reason why she hasn't said anything so don't get her feeling like she can't talk to you about her problems. Show her a little more compasion as a mother should. She probably trying to cry out for attention!

Answer 7

I would definitly talk with her and let her know that no matter whats going on, you love her more than anything else. Than I would go find a good counclor first thing in the morning for her to talk to. You could save her life. It may be hard to deal with the issue, but her life is worth it. She will thank you someday. She made need to be put in a safe place where she can not urt herself. Good luck. just love her and help her through it. No matter how hard it gets.

Answer 8

shanna. keep the dangerous weapons away. Being in school and taking care of kids gave me some experience. I once knew someone like that. I had to be firm and actually i helped her get some therapists to help out. She's fine now, for some reason she was just really depressed.

it turns out that she had some hormonal problems. sad case, but she's ok now. All better, cheerful friendly and well mannered.

go see a doctor and do some scans. might help u.

Answer 9

Spend lots of time with her. She needs attention. But focus on positive things so she is not getting attention for negative behavior. She needs to understand that you love her and family will help her through. Share times in your life when you thought your life was in the toilet. Remember being a young teen; they get older earlier than we did!
If a guy broke up with you publicly and spread awful roomers abought how you .......
0maybe a more g rated story. But bond with her.
It sounds real bad but honey if she really wanted to kill herself, we would not be wrighting letters. She needs attention and you need to give it to her.
Good Luck!

Answer 10

Talk to her nice and easy. Become the best of friends, slowly slowly and then u will find out. Maybe she "loves " someone too much but cannot tell him about it, adolescent stuff.! Sometimes the music the teens hear can provoke to that and the person is forced to that action without knowing why.