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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, please, at your own home and at your parents' house when you go there (did the doctors say it was OK to do that? I really would get her therapist's explicit clearance for it) -- please gather and lock away anything she can use to cut. Taking razors won't necessarily do the job. A friend just had to, under a doctor's order, remove ALL possible cutting implements from the entire house, including not just razors and kitchen knives but also things like peelers and tinfoil/plastic wrap boxes which have cutting edges, because friend's teen son did just what your daughter did -- cut again pretty badly after a while of stopping.

Your DD could get to your parents' house and find razors in their bathroom cabinet, nail scissors, who knows what in the kitchen. Not trying to scare you but trying to let you know that in a very similar case the doctor wanted EVERY possible cutting edge out of the teen's reach--as in, locked up, not just hidden. And the fact you're going to someone else's home where you won't know what's in all the drawers and closets - that would concern me. Removing these things may sound like a lack of trust in the teen, and frankly it is, but think of it as removing some of the temptation to cut and making it harder to take that route for comfort. And there's no need to tell her or make a big deal of removing things.

The option for intensive outpatient treatment may be one to ask the therapist about. It might not be right for this time but should be something you learn about in case it's needed. And meanwhile, ask the therapist if you need to just remove any temptation to cut by removing cutting implements, even ones that wouldn't occur to most of us.[/quote]

I'm sorry, but whoever gave your friend that advice was foolish.  If a kid is going to cut, they will use anything, absolutely anything.  It's a lot easier to deal with a clean cut than a jagged rip made from a key or plastic silverware.  It's not possible to take away every single thing that a cutter will use, it just isn't.  The only way to prevent it is to have someone awake with them 24 hours a day.[/quote]

You are absolutely right.  They will find anything to use to cut.  When my DS was in the 5th grade he grabbed a paper clip during school, straightened it so it was a straight line, and used that to cut up his arms while in school.[/quote]

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