Want to tell someone about SH, worry about being “put away” for it or something
I want to try to figure out how to come clean to my therapist or psychiatrist about SH, but I’m worried about being “put away.” I’ve had multiple family members and friends who have spent time at a hospital and I can’t say it ever helped any of them. I genuinely am not suicidal. I like being alive and I have a lot of great people in my life. I’ve been cutting myself consistently every day for over a month now. I started off smaller and using a different item, but I switched to something else (being vague because I got the idea of items to use from reading about ppl talking about it online, don’t want to give the same ideas to people) and the cuts have been getting a lot more serious recently. I’m 18 now, but I started seeing this therapist a couple years ago. She couldn’t “put me away“ for this if I said what I said here, and she couldn’t tell my mother since I’m 18 now right? I don’t know whether “danger to yourself” constitutes SI or just SH. Thank you.