Self-Injury Support Group

Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.

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caites13
caites13

So a little back story on me. I started cutting at age 16. I cut every day, several times a day. After about a year i stopped. Now thinking i started drinking more around that time too. I was 'clean' from cutting until i was 21. THen it was only every now and then. But the last little while its been more often. Ive never left scars before until this last stretch.


I suffer from bipolar, anxiety and dysthymia, so its safe to say i'm down way more than i'm anything else. I've lost many friends to my battle with mental illness. When i get strong feelings of self hate and doubt, i can vent to my friends and risk pushing them more away or i can cut. I don't want to lose more friends so i cut. I'm now 23, and an avid cutter. I have other vice for when i don't cut, but none are healthy. i do go to the gym when my anxiety is high but it doesn't help when i'm down. 


I guess i rather self implode then push even more people away.  But i feel that this isn't a healthy attitude. but i don't know how to deal if im not venting or cutting. I've also tried journalling. It make me thinking of more things to be sad about rather then help me sort out ideas.


So i guess i'm asking for advice.

cassichase
cassichase
I had to get help when it got out of control. My family and friends could not handle my mental illness and I had no one to talk to. I loathed myself which caused me to cut even more. I found a therapist that basically turned my life around by the grace of God. Staying alone in your cutting will only make it impossible to manage. Please do some research and find a therapist who deals your issues that causes you to cut yourself. There is a way out, but you need help to find it.
caites13
caites13
I do see a mental health professional. She thinks trying to give me methods to deal with my anxiety is the key to all of this. So far I've done all the excercises and it's helped my anxiety a bit but not enough.
Faven_Elizabeth
Faven_Elizabeth
Oh darlin, I'm in the same boat except my friends completely dumped me for my manipulative ex saying was the problem. I had a personal blog that my 2 former friends and ex managed to hack and get into. They used all the things I wrote about against me and told everyone. I got clean on my own and it was hard. I was Self-harming since I was in 8th grade. I stopped in 2013 when I met this amazing guy and we began dating. He helped me recover, he got me threw my fathers death even though he was a ex he was my best friend. Then in 2015 I got with my now ex we were together all of 2016. Since being with her my anxiety got so bad I have to see a cardiologist, my self-esteem has been lowered to net to nothing, she verbally and mentally abused me. My friends believe my ex saying that she never said or did anything I told them. I sent them screen shots as proof and they still called me a liar and dumped me for her instead. So I relapsed and my self harming got worse. I'm leaving very visible scars and began burning.
Even if the only people you have to talk to are online, talking helps. I don't see anyone as for professional help, I do recovery on my own each time. I have no support and my mother thinks I'm doing it for attention. I find ways to self help and recover online and they help a lot. Instead of self harm I began drawing, writing, and popping a rubber band if the urge to self harm is still there.