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.
I have had an amazing stretch of not cutting. I am 20, and I haven't cut sense I was 16. But I am breaking down. When I was 19 I had 2 full mental breakdowns, but I was lucky enough that my boyfriend was there for both, and held me down to his bed so that I could not hurt myself, and brought me to my therapist and got me help the next week. But I think I am going to break again.
My mother's abuse from the past is coming back. Especially because I have to see her a lot recently. She is somewhat acting nice, but sometimes definitely acting opposite. Then a school. I am in college and I just finished my last final. The stress of it was killing me. I got a 78 on my last final... I DO NOT get less than an 85, EVER. Plus I have a million medical issues that just won't go away. Plus having to quit my job from stress seizures, so my dad having to pay my rent and everything. Plus just flat out being mentally unstable.
I am afraid of another breakdown. I just can't seem to stop it. I am wanting to cut more and more and more. And now my boyfriend works 10 hours a day 5-6 days a week so I am finding myself planning it when he is not here. Can anyone help me?
My mother's abuse from the past is coming back. Especially because I have to see her a lot recently. She is somewhat acting nice, but sometimes definitely acting opposite. Then a school. I am in college and I just finished my last final. The stress of it was killing me. I got a 78 on my last final... I DO NOT get less than an 85, EVER. Plus I have a million medical issues that just won't go away. Plus having to quit my job from stress seizures, so my dad having to pay my rent and everything. Plus just flat out being mentally unstable.
I am afraid of another breakdown. I just can't seem to stop it. I am wanting to cut more and more and more. And now my boyfriend works 10 hours a day 5-6 days a week so I am finding myself planning it when he is not here. Can anyone help me?
* Listen to music
* Take a walk
* Talk to a friend
*Take a nap
*Write in a journal
*Clean
*draw a pretty picture
* Play a game
Do some thing you really like to do.
as far as school stress goes, think about it this way. school is over now. you can rest and relax for a few months before having to go back in the fall. and you know things now that you didn't know before. so set up a schedule for studying or a time to meet with a group. and remember, a test score isn't an evaluation of how smart you are. it's an evaluation of how you did on one test. the stress you've been going through could easily be contributing to a lower test score (as i failed 3 tests a few weeks ago, when my stress was sky-high, then when i got to relax, turned around and pulled 90s on 2 tests the next week). the problem with stress is that it compounds. you get stressed, then you get stressed about being stressed, and so on and so forth. take some "me time" to relax. trust me. you've earned it :)