My 8 Year Struggle With Self-Harm
**If you are struggling, talk to me. I understand.**
I am writing this both for me and others, so they won’t feel like they are alone. And to spread awareness. Names are changed for privacy.
I struggled with self-harm and self-mutilation for 8 years. I started the in 2nd grade. My mom had just moved my brother and me again. This was the third school we’d been to since we had started kindergarten, and my brother was only in 1st grade. We left our house in the middle of the night so that our Dad wouldn’t know. If he had, he might have threatened to kill himself in front of u