you can do it :)

i promised my therapist and my BFF id stop...i relapse..i cut daily to every other day i can occasionally go a week without cutting but thats all...i turn to getting tattoos to help me with my urges...im not ready to stop for myself so how can i stop for someone else...good luck on quitting for someone else. if you can do it please keep me updated so i can jump on the band wagon too

Distract yourself go out visit a friend so you dont talk to someone you trust you can beat it

e4now, i wil keep you updated. i need to stop and im determined to do so.
im going to keep distracting myself, my boyfrriend said i need to get out, because i just sit at home doing nothing. so i told him i will get out, and so i invited a friend over for the night, shes sleeping right now so im online. but yes, im determined to stop.
thanks for the positive messages, i know i can do it!

I'm working more and more each day on making the promise to and for myself. I kind of learned the hard way that if I make the promise to somoene else, I will ultimately let them down because in a way I want to cut. And continue the cycle of it. If that makes sense. Like someone posted, I too covered myself with tattoos hoping that the feeling would be the same, and if I could cover up the scars so I did not see them the urge would be gone. I was quite wrong.
I would focus more on yourself here. And start promising yourself you will not harm yourself. Although there will be ups and downs I have learned it does help to promise yourself.

ive tried promising myself i wouldnt do it and then i always let myself down. but i know that promising to my boyfriend ill be able to keep that promise,and if i dont i will be admitted into the hospital till i get better. but for now, im going to keep my promise and if i feel im going to hurt myself then maybe ill admit myself on my own, and do what i need to do to get better. well see, but so far i havent broken my promise although its only been a day. but well see.

It's been a few months since I did, and I have scars that I'm actually scared of. It's very hard to sit here and remember how I felt the last time I did it, and not do it again, ya know? I've wanted to for months, but when I have a thought about it, I'll text one of my very best friends (they're cutters also) and they will talk to me about it. Quitting cutting is nothing you can do alone, trust me!

i know and im working hard at it to stop. i havent done it in days

It's okay, we all fall sometimes. Hopefully you have the support of loved ones that understand it's not something that we can just turn off. You can do this, I tell myself everyday "it just gets better"

i know, adn every day i tell myself i wont do it again. tell myself i cant

That's so good that he cares about you :) I promised minebi wouldn't cut either i know the urges are so hard to fight. My boyfriend said we'd do something nice if I made it to one month maybe u can set a goal together and plan a little reward stay strong be grateful you have someone who loves you :)

thats good that you have a supportive boyfriend too, it really helps when there supportive.
yes he loves me, very much, and i am so glad i have him. so far ive made it a little over a week without hurting myself. and im still going.

Same here he's great :) and a week is great stay strong you have people to support you idk what I would do if I had to do it alone. Have you gone to theraphy?

im in counseling now and in process of getting a new pdoc. ive been in counseling with a different counselor for a year and a half as well as a pdoc, and then i just got a new counselor and im in process of getting new pdoc. see my counselor every week.