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'm turning 16 in 5 days. It'll be my 16th birthday, and the 4 year anniversery of the first time I injured myself. I have been a christian since I was 11 years old. I have been a follower of Christ longer than I have been hurting myself. People accuse me of being a fraud. They've said that I can't truly be a christian if I cut myself. I've heard it from friends and from people on DS. Well, here is my rebuttle. Take your epistomelogical bullcrap and shove it down the throat of somebody who cares. Not me. Not anymore. In case you haven't heard, even one sin sets us apart from God. He is perfect and we are not. I know that I am not perfect, and I know that God doesn't want me to hurt myself. But He still loves me. And Jesus does too. The next time a Christian tells me that I'm going to Hell for cutting myself, they need to take a good, long look in the mirror. God is the only one who's judgment matters. God is the only one who knows whether or not I am a true Christian, regardless of the SI. He see's my heart, and he see's how much I am hurting when I SI. Nobody else can say that I am not true. People seriously need to get off of their high horses. They joke about SI and they tease, because they don't understand it and they don't want to believe that it's real. Well, I hate to break it to them, but it goes back to biblical times. SI is very real and it's not going away. It's time for a reality check.
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
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I am not a christian or any religion. i take in to accounts of different philosophies and thats it. But i dont see how your religion should ever influence your coping mechanisims. those who tell you, you have sealed your fate, have a less understanding of the bible then i do, as far as i am concered. Because i believe jesus talked immesnly about forgivness.
I am sure, a cut or cutting would not have jesus enternally damn your soul, i think everytime you cut or anyone of his "children," (i put that in brackets out of respect for believers and non-believers) that he cries, and cries tears of sadness pain and wants to help you, but he knows you know that you can always turn to him at any moment, and he will welcome you.
cutting has nothing to do with religion, its a personal choice, a coping mechanism. thats a choice you have made, and they can judge you all they want, i think in the end, the one who's opinion ccounts the most for you, is Jesus and Gods . . . i hope i got that right.
dont let others selfish and ignorance hurt you more. they are merely ignorant to the world that is around you and them. at least you can see the truth.
keep fighting my dear.
Morose-Mary
dw about it- i go to a christian school too and they say i'm not truly christian because i cut myself. They say i'm breaking the rule that my body is a "temple" but i dont listen to them. I know in my heart what i believe and as long as i know the truth- thats all that matters. My parents recently found out about my SI and they dont take it very seriously either... So dont worry- your not alone! I'm here for you if you ever need to talk.
Much love- xox
who are they to say who is going to hell (which i don't believe in a hellfire anyways but that is me) Is not God the only one who can judge?
God sees the pain and anguish we are in, and he is there to comfort us. Bible witter Paul wrestled with a thorn in the flesh. I think the Bible does not say what exactly it was so that when we are suffering from illness or self inflicted anguish we can have comfort in knowing that God helped Paul, he will help us too.
God is the hearer of prayer. there are no conditions on that - we just have to want him to hear us.
I am very strong Christian, i follow the Bible closely as i can. But sometimes my love for God and my Love for my family is not enough to stop the pain and anguish i put upon my self.
When I slip back to the SI coping strategy I never feel condemned by God. I remember the line "a bruised reed he will not break" When people are judging, be it about SI or anything else I remember the verse warning the proud that "whoever causes one of these little ones to fall would be better to tie a rock round their neck and jump in the lake!"
How you deal with inner pain and turmoil is a matter of choice and habit. SI isn't an ideal coping strategy. In an ideal world maybe we would all stop - or never start. However, we do start and stopping is very difficult, and God is with us in that struggle.
i go to church to and have since i was first born but only my closest friends there know and they dont criticise me for it and i think that is how church is supposed to be!!
When I first told my youth pastor, I KNEW he was a cutter when he was younger and he had dealt with lots of things like this, so he was really understanding and REALLLLLLY helped me make it through everything.
im a christian and i cut. i do believe that cos i sh i was pushing christ out of my life but thats jst me it doesnt mean he left me. i know that he helped me thru all the bad times. but what i needed to do ti allow the holy ghost come to me. was to ask for forgiveness and to ask for help to forgive myself. i think somweone mentioned earlier about our bodies being a temple. well thats what always made me feel so guilty. i was grateful that gor gave me this body but i didnt know how to cope. instead of trusting him and asking him for help i sh. but now i feel stronger and i know that he has forgiven me i dnt cut as much now. well in the last 4 months i cut once. i think sorrow and guilt stopps us from knowing the true love that we all deserve.