Hi Jane,
I’ve got a problem that I’m very ashamed of and I haven’t told anyone about. It involves me being very secretive and covering certain parts of my body all the time. I cut myself. I’ve been doing it since I was 12 when my dad left my mum and now I’m 18 and I’m thinking of leaving home, maybe to get a job, so I can be more independent, or maybe to go travelling so I can get away from all this and find people who I feel I can relate to and who might understand me but I really want to stop cutting because although it makes me feel like I can cope better with things I know it’s not a good idea to carry on. Plus my skin is really hurting and it doesnt look great. I’m too embarrassed to even think about sex and girlfriends because I don’t know how to tell someone about this. It would be nice though to feel that I had someone to talk to. I like DIVA because it helps me to feel more connected with that part of myself because I can’t do it in real life if that makes sense. Hope you can help.
DL