Ermm well I first told my tutor a few years ago so she knew.. my music teacher knows cause I'm close to her too and I talk to her about stuf, my other teachers.. this sounds weird but I don't know if they do, I have support staff and stuff so they know, whether it's gets passsed on to my other teachers, who knows...I tihnk it can help sometimes if tachers know
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My favourite teacher who is more like a friend found out because my best friend was really worried about me and told her. she was absolutely fantastic and she sat me down and talked to me and hugged me!
A teaching assistant knows because I ran out of a lesson crying and she followed me and caught me cutting in the school toilet. she sat with me talking things over for hours.
I am assuming that my English teacher knows because I often write essays about the subject but we have never spoken about it!
i have had a very positive reaction from every single member of staff in my school that has found out about it!
My course mananger found out because i told her, she seemed shocked but was willing to help and has helped me as far as other staff memembers they found out i am having couselling but they dont know what for.
my english teacher is REALLY observant.. and she always starts acting funny around me when i've cut / been close to it.
she hasn't openly asked me...but i think she knows.
I'm not 100%, and its not like im gonna ask "do you think i cut". Eh i don't really care anymore. if they know then they know. I'll just prove them wrong on what some "emo kid" can do.
They don't paticuraly care i don't think. As long as the kid makes grades, and is their idea of 'social'... it deson't matter.
hold on a second.. i can find a REALLY good quote on this....\
"I'm antisocial they say. I don't mix. It's so strange. I'm very social indeed. It all depends on what you mean by social doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about tings you like like this... Or talking about how strange the world is. Being with people is nice, but I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and not let them talk, do you?"
well it makes sence to me
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Well one of my teachers told the counselor that he/she was worried about me hurting myself, so I guess so. But it bugs me because I have no clue which teacher it was! ...or how on earth they knew.
My SI is a very private part of my life. It probably isn't healthy but I work hard to keep college and SI seperate! When things get reeeaaaaal bad of course, the two merge as I end up Si-ing in college... but apart from that.
I know, for this reason that I don't want people in college knowing. I have a couple of very close friends... that's it. I feel uncomfortable thinking about people judging me or treating me differently, because of my SI and mental health issues.
I nearly ended up letting my drama teacher know, as I nearly wrote in my production portfolio about using feelings and emotions ascociated with SI in my character development (a character I play is sexually abused), but I didn't, even though giving evidence of using techniques such as this would have been likely to give me more marks. I was just too scared to 'expose' myself like that to her
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I've woken now to find myself In the shadows of all I have created... Won't you take me away from me
2 of my professors know... One because we had been talking about suicide and I had to leave class so I stayed after and told her about my si and the suicide watch I was on.She told me she was there if I needed to talk and asked what my plans were for the weekend and my plans if I ever felt suicidal again... The other because I am behind in the class and therefore having a hard time keeping up so I told her that I cut and the work was stressing me out, she just told me I could withdraw from the class or get an incomplete (because of the stress)... And I took a defense class and told the female instructor because she could tell I was down so I told her I cut and it took her a moment to realize what I ment then told me I was going to stop because she told me to (in a caring way).... and I think that's it.....
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I'm a teacher and on the whole we don't necessarily know, its not like a big memo goes out but having said that if its relevant for us to be told (for example someones having a hard time because of this that or other)
If a teacher does know about it they legally have to pass it on to the correct people
my p.e. teacher from my freshman year knows. i don't even remember how she found out. she was actually pretty calm about it, but of course she had to tell the school. the school notified my parents. didn't change anything. i had to talk with my counselor at school once, my dad never said anything, and my mom brought it up once and i didn't want to talk about it then. i assume that she thinks i quit or she just doesn't care. it's been over two years since then and she hasn't talked about it since. i don't see the teacher.
My form tutor and head of year know, the assistant head of years know too and the 2 matrons.
Some senior member of staff knows too because he's nosy lol.
See I cannot feel this, not matter how you try and in the real world, there's no goodbyes.
none of my teachers no yet but ive been considering telling my maths teacher she no's a lot problems that have been going on lately so i might tell her soon, just how i dont no
Head of year.
Pastoral leader.
Form tutor.
P.E teacher.
Student welfare.
School nurse.
Head teacher.
Those are all the people I knew knew from when I was in Year 11.
Head of year.
Head of sixth form.
Learning support assistant.
And those are the additional people this year, and there are others that know stuff is up but I don't know whether they know or not that I cut like the PA's of some senior members of staff and I think all my teachers have been told I struggle with depression.
So thats quite a lot really, I think only 3 of them I told others had to be told when I was either in a crisis or in trouble at school or when I was truanting but they have all been very supportive on the whole.
The 3 that I told were P.E teacher, School nurse and Form tutor. First off my P.E teacher we know each other quite well and I went to her about a week after I told my best mate I cut who didn't take it at all very well and I was concerned for her and so was my teacher and she was shocked that I was the one having the problems because I always look so happy and everything but she was really good with me and hugged me and told me that if I needed someone to talk to I could always go to her ect. After telling her she had to take me to the nurse and either she was going to tell her or I could and she sat with me and I told her, again a supportive reaction and she arranged for some guy to come in and talk to me every couple of weeks. And my form tutor for last year she well I actually can't remember her reaction but I think she was kinda shocked but was able to handle it.
Bethany how come all your teachers have been told?
We are here if you wanna talk.
Amy x
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'Cause I'll always remember you the same.
Oh eyes like wild flowers within demons of change ♥
My director/theater studies teacher knows about my ED and has periodically asked me about 'harming myself'. I feel like she's referring both to the AN and the Si. Personally.
But no, not directly, and I don't think I'd tell them. Thats just for me, and personal cirumstaces, but I'd advise others to talk.
Sadly my head of year knows.
I had to go see him when id cut a bit deep and hit an artery in school.
That happened just before the easter holidays.
God its gonna be uncomfortable when i go back to school.
Nobody at college knows....Actually, possibly... I dunno.
I think the mentor might know...Actually crap the first aid woman knows because I had a panic attack and she held my arm, touched my scars and said "did you do these to yourself?"... Maybe my tutor might know because her son is one of my mates... I dunno tho.
At school most of them knew after I cut so bad in the toilets after a girl had thrown a chair at me and I'd had enough of the bullying that I was sent to the hospital =S That's why I was glad to leave the bastards.
School counsellor
Former Head of year (year 10)
Current head of division
Prinicipal
My French teacher (years 10, 11 and now)
Former form tutor (urgh)
Current form tutor/French Teacher (possibly)
Current English teacher knows due to a piece of my recent coursework being on the subject of SI
Current Psychology teacher too
ha more than i originally thought..
but my two french teachers - it feels like they can read me like a book sometimes! always feel like i could talk if them if i ever wanted to - and ones leaving at the end of the year
maternity leave though, so i'll let her off for that =D.
ok i'm rambling
My tutor kind of knows. I haven't directly told him but we talked about something being wrong.
RE teachers know something is wrong but have only ever asked me if i'm okay and never probed deeper.
I sometimes wish my teachers knew so that when i'm having a bad time or stressing about my school work they wouldn't be like 'why haven't you done it?', 'everyone else has handed it in, i want it monday' etc, etc. However, I don't want to be given any 'special' treatment, I should be made to do things the same as everyone else. I'm no different. I've got to deal with my problems myself. I don't want any attention from any of this....? It a hard one
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain
I told my 4 best friends, and one of them decided to tell everyone ( ALL my teachers, friends, her mum, her boyfriend, his mum,) without even mentioning it to me. She found out, left me, hasnt spoken to me since, and the next day my form tutor day " I think we have to talk"
so my form tutor had to tell my head of year and parents, and the "friend" told all my other teachers
She used to SI, so she knows what its like. I HATE HER. BITCH. SHes ****ed up EVERYTHING.
Its ok bethany, i had a 'friend' like that when i told her she told me she used to do it , agree to my face she would not tell anyone.At lunch my friends were asking questions that they would not normally ask such as " Are you okay?" and sounding really concerned i thought it was a little strange she had said she would not tell no one and i thought it was true. The next night she was saying how "pathetic" it was and that were i did it i was just the classic attention seeking then the next day i had found out she had told my 2 mates.
I got told my a former sher that i was attention seeking!
