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I've been having horrible headaches this summer and I feel nausea. After one headache, I got very depressed, and I started cutting myself with my fingernails; until I bleed. It made me feel a lot better. My headache went away. This was the first time I have ever done something like this. I don't know why I did it, but I was terrified afterward. I don't want to tell my parents that I've started to do this. I might risk not going to college this fall, but I'm also worried it might get worse. I recently went back on an antipsychotic called Rispederdol, and I don't think its helping me. I actually think its making me very depressed and causing these headaches.

I definitely have aspergers syndrome. I've been diagnosed since I was two. But in my teens, psychologists have also diagnosed me from bipolar to psychosis. All they do is give me medication which I feel awful and bloated on. As soon as I'll say that I started harming myself, they'll give me more medication. And the downward cycle will continue.

I'm scared on what to do next. By the way, I'm seventeen years old so my parents have to be involved.

Hi, Silentvibrava. I know you don't want to tell your parents, but I think you need to let them know about the headaches and scratching yourself. If the Rispederdol is making you depressed and possibly causing headaches and self-harm as well, it's important that your doctor/psychiatrist is told- you may need your medication changed. If you don't tell anyone, the symptoms may get worse and you could be at more risk. Please talk to your parents about it right away- I'm a parent of two teenagers myself and I would want to know about ANYTHING that was affecting my children's health.