weighing_of_heart

I am 23 and currently wondering what would happen if I told my counselor that I cut myself. I don't do it regularly, and it is in no way suicidal behaviour. I am unsure what will happen if I do tell - I don't want to be put in a hospital or anything...I just want to be able to talk about it with her.

Please, I would like if people who have had this kind of experience to answer or people who are registered counselors.

Firstly, I understand that Roman Catholics don't "pray" to Mary and the Saints, but simply ask them to pray to God for them.

I am a Protestant, but trying to understand Catholicism better - but I simply cannot understand why Mary and the Saints would hear us while in Heaven. I have a hard time understanding why Catholicism prays to people who are physically deceased (although I understand that they are alive Spiritually). I have a hard time trying to wrap my brain around why these people (while in Heaven) would want to listen or to help us when they can be with God in Heaven which is without earthly needs.