I'm the mum of a 15 yr old female teenager. She has loving parents with a very small family unit. Over the last 6 month's we've had teenager issues where she's caused us panic and worry, like not coming home when she should or missing from school and generally getting mixed up with the wrong crowd. But thankfully that seem's to have stopped. My daughter lacks confidence and been an only child I think she finds that difficult. My daughter will open up to us but this can be hit and miss..... depending on how she feel's. But this February when her relationship ended we found out she had been cutting her arms and leg, we got my daughter to open up about why and how she felt and "said because of her boyfriend" and she felt lonely and missed him. We felt after that things became better but I kept finding this book in her room containing all things she felt, drawings of her self with " ugly, refusing to sink, and I refuse to give in. Then one drawing with a figure hanging from a tree. We consulted the school and my daughter has been seeing the nurse there, everything seemed to be going well with her she has a new boyfriend and hopefully starts a Saturday job this weekend. Then yesterday I noticed she had cut her arm again, she denied it and got defensive about it. She won't talk about it and say's we should believe her and won't show us her arm.... although I can see it. I'm going to ring the nurse at school and see if she can give me any help and advise. I'm finding it really hard and its taking its toll, I find myself feeling like I've failed and because our relationship with my husband is so good, I feel like that might start to crack soon. Any advise from anyone would be good.