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Parents – How would you react if your daughter was cutting herself?

  • Posted on January 8, 2011 at 1:21 am

I have been cutting myself for over a year now, and its gotten way out of hand and bringing me more problems, like an eating disorder but I don’t want to tell them about that …
It’s getting to deep, and I’m scared I’ll die from blood loss. I don’t want to die, my cutting isn’t a suicidal intent, it’s just something that relieves my emotional pain and has become addictive. Also, I belive the cuts have become horribly infected and like I said, I don’t want to die! I’ve discovered that I’m not going to get out of this addiction on my own and that I need to help of someone, like my parents. The thought of telling them freaks me out so much, and I;m scared they’ll freak out on me and abandon me or something …
So, what I’m asking is if your teenage daughter told you they were cutting, how would you react?
thank you so much
xx

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Was I wrong to react this way to them drawing my daughter’s blood?

  • Posted on October 2, 2010 at 7:21 am

My daughter (15 months) who is usually healthy as a horse mysteriously developed a fever of 103.6 all of a sudden and vomited so I went to the emeregency room. Well it didn’t take the doctor long at all to diagnose an ear infection in both ears. So he ordered some bloodwork.

Well the nurse came in to draw her blood with another nurse to help me hold her down. Of course at this point she was sick of having thermometers up her butt and swabs down her throat so she was screaming and squirming. The nurse spent forever trying to find a vein and clearly didn’t have a good one because she missed the vein and kept *digging* in her arm with the needle for several minutes. Now I justh ad my blood drawn the other day and the lab person missed at first and dug for about 15 seconds and it really hurt! I was just about to tell this nurse to stop digigng in her arm when she finally pulled the needle out. She decided to try the back of her hand and once again was unsuccessful and started digging again with the needle under her skin so finally I said “Stop it, that’s enough. You wouldn’t be digging like that with an adult because they’d ask you to stop.” Well the lady BLOWS UP at me and yells “I’M NOT DIGGING! SHE’S MOVING!” and I was like “Look, I understand it is very difficult to get a vein in a screamy squirmy baby but there is no excuse to torture her like that when you can’t get a vein.” Well she had an attitdue and was like “Fine, I’ll get the doctor in here and you can explain to him why you don’t want her to have bloodwork done. But don’t say I was digging because *I* don’t dig on children!” Then she left in a huff and I heard her out in the hall ranting to the doctor “Oh, I wasn’t even *touching* the needle and she said I was digging!” Well the doctor came in to explain how important the bloodwork was and I said “Listen, I want the bloodwork done but that lady had the needle in for several minutes digging under her skin. There’s no reason for that.” My little girl was already developing little bruises where the needles had been.

So anyway, they sent someone from the IV team and she was much gentler. She tried her other arm and after about 30 seconds of no vein took it out. THen she tried her foot and got a little bit of blood but again pulled the needle out after a reasonably short amount of time. THe little blood she got turned out to be enough to do the most important tests. Now my baby looks like a heroin addict but at least we know her bloodwork was alright.

While we were still there I heard that first nurse ranting to her coworkers about “the mom of the baby in room 18.” I wish I’d gotten her name to report her.

My question is: Do you think I was being unreasonable? I understand the importance of shots and bloodwork and i have always held her down and tried to comfort her but not interefere with shots and finger pricks. But this is the first time someone treated her with a complete disregard for her pain. Has anything like this happened to you?
Insomniacsdream517 – Thanks for your answer but I never yelled at her. I calmly told her to stop, and she immediately yelled at me.
Uhm Albert E, you just completely changed my story. Wtf?

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How would you react if your well behaved 17 year old daughter told you she is a COCAINE addict?

  • Posted on July 30, 2010 at 1:24 pm

What would you do about it?
I’m not a parent, I’m the daughter… I want to tell my parents and get help, but I’m scared to death to do that… I only started doing it a couple months ago but I’m so addicted and I want to quit…

Does anyone have advice on how to tell them?

(and by well behaved, I mean I’m home by curfew, I’m polite, I dont drink, I do fairly well in school, etc)

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Question for parents: How would you re-act if your son/daughter started using drugs?

  • Posted on July 28, 2010 at 4:24 am

Re-action for these drugs: Marijuana, Ecstasy, Crystal Meth.
I’m just curious haha xD would you be mad or try to help them? What would you do?

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If some 33yo* guy named Jesus gave your 17yo daughter an alcoholic beverage in Mexico how would you react?

  • Posted on January 11, 2010 at 4:07 pm

*between 33 and 2007 years old
Yes and the cheese was intelligent designed from some moldy old socks which was all that was available. The wine of course was intelligent designed from water.

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