this thing of suicidal thougt is there and if it not noticed by your significant others you end up damaged.it hard to cope on your own esprcially if you just see the problem as it will never end.

Dear Tyra,
I applaud you for addressing painful issues that otherwise people would ignore. I have an alcoholic husband, my 26-year old daughter has started heavily drinking since the death of her father (to alchoholism) last year, and I have a 14-year-old who cuts himself to release his emotions. My father is an alchoholic drug addict pedofile, and I have an older son (25) who is addicted to gambling, drinking, and cocaine. I am praying a lot and trying to make them all face their problems and get therapy, but knowing that someone out there is bringing up the issues that people face so they do not feel ashamed is commendable. Thank you. God bless you, Tyra. You are really a wonderful human being.
Sincerely,
Robin

TYRA,
I WAS WATCHING YOUR SHOW TODAY ABOUT CUTTING AND ALCOHOL. IM 17 YRS OLD AND HAVE BEEN CUTTING FOR ABOUT 8 YEARS. I FIGURE NOW NOTHING CAN REALLY HELP BUT YOUR SHOW ENCOURAGED ME A LITTLE. I'VE TRIED TO GET HELP THERAPY, LOOKING FOR PLACES BUT I FEEL LIKE I JUST CANT DO ANYTHING. EVERYTHING IS WAY TO EXPENSIVE AND SO I'VE PRETTY MUCH GIVIN UP AND FIGURED THAT THIS IS WHO I AM AND HOW IM SUPPOSE TO BE. I'VE ATTEMPTED SUICIDE A COUPLE TIMES. I JUST CANT GET PAST THIS. BUT THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING IT ON YOUR SHOW.
A GOOD PLACE TO TALK TO PEOPLE AND MAKE U FEEL A LITTLE LESS ALONE IS
TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS
ITS AN ORGANIZATION THAT STARTED WITH ONE AND HAS GOTTEN MANY PEOPLE TO JUST LET IT OUT. GET ENCOURAGEMENT.

12 step programs are not for everyone! 9th Circ. Court ruled that people arrested, can NOT be forced to attend 12-Steps as they are religious. (God or Him - male - are mentioned ~7 times in the steps.)
I used Rational Recovery & sobered up with no God in my life. It's possible.

I just Love You Tyra.

Interventions are nice in theory but the reality is...with the privacy laws, only the person who needs the help can arrange care. Im going through this with my 20 yr old son right now. No one will speak to me!
Im completely HELPLESS!

i am sixteen years old and i've been cutting myself since i was twelve. my parents know but they don't seem to take it all that serious. i actually think they are just to scared to realize i have problems. I don't know why I do it but i could totally relate to the girl that came on the show that was on intervention...except i only cut my wrists and sometimes legs. I have scars all over my arms and i want to get into a treatment center but i don't know any in my area and I am afraid to be to far away from home. I think I need a lot of help because I am starving myself and cutting myself and I just can't stop. I have tried many many times but I just can't.

hey tyra..
im from SOUTH AFRICA:-) i watch your show evryday. g2g mwah

hi tyra i can't believe how great you are the things you do for people is incredible i don't think i spelled that right but o well i love u i am 11 yrs. old and i live in the sun shine state. no matter what it takes i watch your show every week day at 5 o'clock i love the way you don't care and just get out there and do your thing i admire you i feel that you are the last celebritie that i look up to that is doing drugs and other stupid crap and you are the only one who uses the buety God gave to you to help those who need a hand thanks,
victoria

Hi tyra, I'm Julia i live in South Africa. I would like to congradulate you on the wonderful work you are doing.I am very much addicted to your show and i would like to meet you.One of my fantasy is to be in your show. I love you Tyra

omg! tyra i love u i live in south africa. my name is fatimela. unfortunately there are no tvs or computer or cellphones there so i always strive to watch your shows. they lift me up when im down in the dumps of the savannah with all my animal friends.

dear tyra
my name is happiness i am 15, i live in south africa and my dream is meeting you. i am one of your biggest fan cause i am always watching your shows and every moment i see you i scream with joy and happiness so that means you inspire me to be a better person. i love you verrrrrrry much and hope to meet you one day.

I feel so weird writing anything here for everyone to see because I have invested so much time and energy into finding my problems from everyone, even trying to minimize them in my own mind. I have been cutting myself for the last 5 years. Most people are oblivious to my issues, but those who do know what I am doing, and how I feel don't care. I can't say that I blame them. I hate myself in every imaginable way, and I truly believe that I deserve the treatment that I give myself because of what a disgustingly pathetic person I am. All I want is someone to love me, someone to care whether or not I live or die, but I don't think that person exists. The only comfort I have is from my razor blades. They are the only thing keeping me sane. Whenever I feel like I can't go on I take solace in the knowledge that I will eventually muster up the courage to totally end my pain on my own. I don't want to live the life I am living. I am not the person I pretend to be. Someday everyone will understand that.

hi TYRA
my name is kamohelo,I live in south africa quiet person and i love
you my life is messed up . im alots im more like you i may say in my words and too obsessed about you even my friends know that coz all the time i talk about you they just get irritated . ok let me tell you my story i live with my aunt . and dont feel that love & comfort but feel like a slave or abuse victim coz really i am an abuse victim and dont have that bond relationships with either my parents or family(both sides)i always cry and pray to GOD that HE could help me be strong . and i always listen to what you always say coz it also guides me and im 14 years old .sometimes i pray to GOD to give a MOTHER like you and even though i dont have chances in this country

hi TYRA
my name is kamohelo,I live in south africa my life is messed up . im a quiet person and i love
you lots im more like you i may say in my words and too obsessed about you even my friends know that coz all the time i talk about you they just get irritated . ok let me tell you my story i live with my aunt . and dont feel that love & comfort but feel like a slave or abuse victim coz really i am an abuse victim and dont have that bond relationships with either my parents or family(both sides)i always cry and pray to GOD that HE could help me be strong . and i always listen to what you always say coz it also guides me and im 14 years old .sometimes i pray to GOD to give a MOTHER like you and even though i dont have chances in this country

hello tyra!

i am 15 now. and i watched your show today. it was amazing. it made me think of how many people have the problem i do. i've been cutting on and off sence i was 12. i do regret it, but it makes me feel so much better. i dont know what to do. i am a very competative swimmer which makes me sound more stupid because everyone sees me all the time. i try so hard to hide it. but when my mom found out she yelled at me for it. she was very angry but i lied and denied the fact. she made me talk to the school councler and that did no help at all. she made me feel bad about myself and for what i had done. my mom thought everything was better, i didnt look like i was hurting from the outside. i kept it all in. everytime she confrunted me i denied it but she didnt believe me so she took me to a therapist outside of school and i only talked to her for like an hour(which was very wierd and different)but she gave me antidepressents and told me to take them everyday. i still do and i have been for about a half of a year now. i am a lot better now. sometimes i believe they help, but other times i feel like dying. i think about suicide every day, and more than once a day. i try not to cry, i hate it. it makes me feel weak inside and unstable. i have a brother and a sister who are older than me. they both were normal do to this fact. and they had no problems like me. i feel like i dont fit in. its been like that forever. and i just feel lost tyra. your show really helped me, by telling me that im not alone. do you have any suggestions or anything i can do. i just want to be happy. my dream is to help people and maybe even be a teacher. thats all i want to do. id really like that chance but my low self-esteem doesn't help. but thank you for your show. and all the other shows that you have put out like this. its made a difference.

Hi Tyra. I'm twelve and I cut myself, but only once. Afterwords, though, I was drawn to it, but too afraid to being stuck back at square one to give in to cravings. Suicide flashes through my mind every second of the day. I cannot look at buildings without wanting to jump from them. I imagine myself jumping from overpasses while my mom, completely oblivious, drives me home from skating practice. Then, thirty secons later, I think "I'd be dead by now. It'd all be over." I'm afraid of pain and hell- although I'm not religious, the thought of spending an eternity in a place like what I believed earth was kept me only inches away from suicide. I think I'm depressed. I don't know what to do- I don't want to talk to my mom, but I don't want to feel the way I do. I told my mom that I was depressed, which I was- still am. Then, I put on my normal facade, and she forgot about my sadness. She thought I had gotten better. But I'm still dead inside. When I cut myself, I feel human and normal- I bleed. Now, I slap myself and pinch myself and bite my lips. I don't tell anyone anything. I am afraid of what my mom will say. I don't know myself. I don't know this sad, pathetic person who's tears have all dried up. But those tears spilled over again while watching your Intervention episode. I'm lost and confused, but I know I'm not alone. Thank you for that.

Hi Tyra!
I'm 13 years old and have been cutting myself for almost a year and tried comitting suicide four times. I just watched your show and I learned something valuable about cutting. I'm not surprised that more straight A students cut more because I am a straight A student. A lot of people insulted me in so many painful ways that I just had to cut. It's almost like they hurt me on the inside, and I hurt myself on the outside in return. I'm additcted to cutting and it somehow never stops. I feel alone in this world, I feel trapped in my own shadow, and I feel like I am my own prey. I sometimes believe I am so worthless, I can't find a reason for myself to live. I don't even remember the last time I was happy. A lot of people cut, it's not shocking. The pain just somehow shows us a way to escape from everything...for a short time.

Hi Tyra, im 14 yrs old and i cut myself, i've been cutting myself for about a month i stopped but i did it again...i don't know how to stop but at the same time i feel like i don't need help. i do it because i feel like nobody loves me and also because i feel like my parents expect me to be a straight A student...after watching your show today i did another cut on my stomach and my leg.i hate doing this but its the only way to not feel stressed...

Hi Tyra,I watch your shows all the time an lots of them sometimes relates to me. But the one i saw today really related to me, because my mother n father are on drugs and have been for a long time and i really hate it.It helps me realize that i wasnt alone that people have all kinds of problems.Thank you i really admire you...

Hi Tyra,I watch your shows all the time n lots of them sometimes relate to me. but the one i saw today really related, because my mother n father are on drugs and have been for a long time and i really hate it.It help me realize that i wasnt alone that people have all kinds of problems.Thank you i really admire you...

Hi Tyra,
The show about addiction really related to me. I am 14 and I have been cutting everyday for almost a year now. I've been trying counselling but it doesn't help at all. My parents only make it worse by yelling and saying how i dissapointed them, but its that pressure that was one of the reasons i started cutting. I want help but nothing so far is working and as my thoughts of suicide get stronger it feels like the best option.

Hey Tyra, When you were talking about cutting and the doctor said that if your parents had an expectation and you couldn't achieve that goal you turned to cutting and your parents have found out about your cutting that they change there expectations, I disagree. I used to cut myself in seventh grade because of my mother and because she would make rude remarks about my weight and she was sometimes a mean drunk. And she found out and I went to therapy and all of that stuff. And to this day (it has been three years) I still cut even more then I did before and he standers are way higher and she still hasn't noticed my cuts and the marks on my body. So they don't always change what they want to to be like.

Hi Tyra
Once again you hit a subject close to home for me. I was married to an abusive alcoholic for 11 years and this show with the woman with the three kids ripped my heart wide open. I hope and pray that you helped her to get sober for good. My ex got sober after I took the kids and left him. He has been sober ever since. I am so proud of her mom for stepping in and taking the kids away. Her son reminds me of my oldest daughter as she was nine when we left and she always wanted her dad to stop drinking and now I know so much more about the disease and realize so much more than I did then. I wish all your guests today the best of luck and I hope they soon realize how much more there is to life than there addictions! Keep up the good work Tyra! God Bless

Hi Tyra,
I watched your show. My 24 year daughter is one of them...cutting herself and drinking. She does not want to talk about it. I tried sending her for counselling, but that does not seem to help her much.She cut her wrists very badly in college, that she had to be hospitalized and suspended from school for a semester. When she went back to school, she wasted a whole semester, drinking heavily and knocking out until she got into debt and then I came to know about it.

She is a brilliant, beautiful girl, now a neuro scientist at Harvard Medical school, a talented singer, pianist and a poet (writes really dark songs)..no one would ever suspect she has so much pain bottled up in her and she refuses to talk about it.
HOW CAN I HELP HER???
You mentioned a place in Texas(?). My daughter is in Boston..she needs help to recognize she has a problem with pent up anger about something, that makes her drink.
Please help..