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Just wondering if I'm the only BP that does this.
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No. you aren't. I'm pretty sure I've lost jobs because of my scars. My left arm look like a road map.
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I have just been diagnosed as bipolar and I do this...(although I have been clean for a month and a bit...)
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I'm a recovering cutter myself.
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Have a friend who cuts, it's pretty commonplace among bpers
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yeah I got the pretty left arm too. my husband don't get it but if he knew what i would to to self destruct instead he would choose the cutting.
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Look, I was manic, and I took a bunch of drugs. When I was coming down I just wanted to feel something. and I had done it before on a smaller scale. And occasionally I still think about how physical pain would be better then feeling emotionally. But it's a bad idea. Really. You don't want 27 stiches and a stay in a mental hospital. Please don't cut yourself.
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no real stitches I am an EMT after all-but been hospitalized and the therapy there was a joke. I prefer self-help and I hope it will pass the new meds have lessened the urge I actually have no new cuts over the scabs of older ones. thanks for talkin tho
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I cut about every couple months....I just "go off".
Its usually in response to stress of some kind.
It often happens at the end of a hyopomanic period too and this followed by depression.
Ive self harmed on and off since 14.
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mine has sorta-"morphed" over time-starving myself-sexual exploits, od'ing among other drugs and cutting. none of this healthy for me or my family.
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