
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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how do i know if im addicted 2 hurting myself?
ive done it for almost 4 years now
if im not cutting....i want 2
i can go months without cutting or hurting myself in some way
but no longer than 6 months
after that...
i gotta do it
but the time that i go without doing it....i wanna do it
i let my "bad" emotions build up until i cant take it anymore
thats wat ive done 4 the past 3 months
but these past 5 days ive cut almost EVERYDAY
how do i know if im addicted??
ive done it for almost 4 years now
if im not cutting....i want 2
i can go months without cutting or hurting myself in some way
but no longer than 6 months
after that...
i gotta do it
but the time that i go without doing it....i wanna do it
i let my "bad" emotions build up until i cant take it anymore
thats wat ive done 4 the past 3 months
but these past 5 days ive cut almost EVERYDAY
how do i know if im addicted??
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www.myspace.com/bingodingo75 and go to my blogs, it's the most recent one.
It sounds llike you just get so pent up with emotions that you just can't take it anymore, and cutting is the only way to do that for you. My advice is to try writing a poem, or even better- talking to friends or a friend, someone cllose, or just writting your feelings down in a list, things you are mad about, things that you're sad//upset about, things like that, I have a bunch of other things that can help, I will post the list in a couple minutes as "Things to Take SI's Place"
as far as writing a poem and what not.. writing in a journal is helpful yes, but sometimes things are so bad and thats when I cut.
I have noticed however, that now that I am more open about my SI I dont tend to do it as much b./c i know there are more people watching out for me.
When you accept it as a symptom of something greater like depression or a mood disorder and not a disorder in itself then you might find that helps more.
read Cutting.. its a book by some dr, i dont remember the name right now, but it had some good info in it.