Hi there,
sounds like there are a number of things going wrong for you at the moment. Your daughter cutting herself is scaring you pretty bad, huh? Well, from what you said about why she does it she is doing what I used to do. I was a self-cutter back when I was a teen. There was so much pain and stress in my life, I felt like I had no control over what happened to me. Everyone else had power to change things or to do what they wanted but I had none. I used to just cry and cry at night, fall asleep crying. My tears stopped eventually. I was all cried out. I couldn't cry... at all... for any reason. Shortly after that I started cutting myself. I would make relatively shallow slashes in my forearms and lower legs, sometimes many all at once. I used broken glass, razors whatever. Partly i was trying to let the pain out... no tears, so the next best must be blood... right? Partly I was taking control of something, my body. I could make it bleed and I could make it sting and hurt. I could starve it too. Often times cutters have eating disorders too, but not always. Your daughter needs help, she needs help from someone who knows how to treat cutters, self-mutilators. Failing that, someone familliar with or focused on eating disorders would be a heck of a lot better than nothing. I will try to find some websites or something on this for you.
Feel free to email me at; [email protected]
I would be happy to offer you any help I can on this. It was scary for me, I just shudder thinking about my kids doing it... must be awful.
Blessings,
~Witch