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.
For the new year, I told myself I'd stop cutting (because at the time I had "FUCK" healing on my arm, very visibly and it freaked me out). And even though I know I've set myself up for failure, I want to stick to it as long as possible. Of course, without cutting I need another thing that I can control and that will make everything easier to cope with. So I've stopped eating. And I'm not sure which is worse. I don't want the scars of self-injury, but it's easier to hide than starvation. And if I keep this up, come summer my doctor will notice my weight loss and all my depression will come out into the open and I'll have disappointed my parents yet again.
I wish I could just be okay. But I have to have some control.
I wish I could just be okay. But I have to have some control.
That's what I did--I want to stop cutting, so I started starving myself so I could have some kind of control. It's not worth it. And you probably know that, but sometimes hearing it from someone else can help it sink in.
You need food. You need to food to survive. There are other ways of dealing with things. But you have to eat. Please eat. Find a hobby, something to get your mind off things.
It'll become a viscous cycle of not eating and eating and feeling guilty and it becomes almost worse then cutting.
I really hope you decide to eat. I'm here for you if you ever need to talk or anything. **hugs**