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I Self Harmed Today

Thor2008
Thor2008

I burned my skin with scalding water on my stomach.  Sensitive area and the pain lasts a long line.  I did it to take my mind off of my PTSD and to try and deal with it.  The pain lasts for days and it is slow to heal as the skin in soft.  I can hide what I am doing and can explain it as clumsy to anyone that asks.  The healing skin and it bubbles up and peels off help me to deal with my PTSD.  I can transfer some of that hurt to the PTSD.


I will burn again.

Beryl367
Beryl367
Sorry you were feeling overwhelmed by things and that your other coping skills weren't adequate to address the PTSD you're dealing with. Your therapist is probably working with you on developing other coping skills that might make you less dependent on self-harm.

If not, here are some resources:

https://www.amazon.com/Helping-Teens-Who-Cut-Second-dp-1462527108/dp/1462527108/ref=dp_ob_title_bk


https://www.amazon.com/Freedom-Selfharm-Overcoming-Self-Injury-Treatments/dp/1572246162

https://www.crisistextline.org/topics/self-harm/#what-is-self-harm-1

The last of those resources contains a link where people feeling like self-harming can text with someone about it.


Thoughts and prayers for better days.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
Thor..... Big hug..... I would be really careful of burning.... They get infected soooooo easy.....

I wish you wouldn't do what a corrupt system did to you.... Another hug of healing and compassion....xo
Community LeaderLeo
Leo
Thor, I've self-harmed, and please, your pain can find other ways out ----- scream, throw paint at a wall, grab a rock hammer and turn a piece of rock into dust ---- but please, don't harm yourself the way you were already harmed. Healing peace to you
Secouya
Secouya
I’m sorry you are having such a rough time, Thor. Please be careful with burning and cutting. Infection can set in causing further problems. I also have self harmed. I’m trying to quit. Please try to find other thing to distract your thoughts. I hope you feel better soon, Thor.
Community Leadermujicaptsd
mujicaptsd
It wasn't self harm, Thor, but I've had to recover from a severe acid burn that got badly infected, so be careful. All I had was a bee sting on the inside of my arm opposite my elbow. But when I went and asked for alcohol to be put on the sting the alcohol bottle got mixed up with a bottle of concentrated acid. I was told to close my arm and wait.

TRIGGER WARNING

It wasn't fun having mentally ill parents, because weird injuries like this one kept happening under their attempted care. Parenting like this ran in my family; all 6 of my cousins by my dad's younger sister were taken from her by social workers because they were unsafe. Because my parents had moved us to South America, there were no social workers to take me out to safe foster care. Some when acid was poured on me instead of alcohol, when I straightened my arm up, the skin just peeled off from both side to reveal burning down to the meat, veins, and arteries of my arm.

I found out over the next year that an acid burn was harder to heal than other fire burns I'd had. It kept getting infected over and over for 12 months. Each infection made it even more painful than the original day acid was poured on it to begin with. It would be better if you didn't self harm at all, amigo, but you know that, of course. In the mean time, be careful with this burn and infection thing, OK? It got really complicated for me
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