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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I may as well stop

MaryinLouisville
MaryinLouisville
trying. I keep trying but I suppose I don't want to stop, but then again maybe I do because why would I even take the time to visit this site about everyday. When will I stop or even NEED to SI? My whole life has been exceedingly hard. Why do I do this? What difference does it make that I know? Would that then give me an excuse to SI. Loving myself surely must not include SI.
LoveAlice
LoveAlice
I am sorry you are struggling. I keep getting defeated like that too and feeling like I should just stop trying. I think that you can still love you self and SI. It is so complex.

Idk why you do it because it can be different for different people. I will tell you why I do it and then maybe you can relate somehow. For me, cutting helps me when I feel "bad" or like a failure. It also helps me when I feel that "fucked up" feeling of intense anxiety, anger, and depression all mixed into one. Or when I just feel anger by itself. Sometimes it helps with grief. Really I feel like doing it when any really bad super intense out of control feeling comes. I get really overwhelming feelings. Especially do to flashbacks. (I have ptsd)

Do you know what triggers you to SI?
guycountry
guycountry
I don't know why you SI or why you continue. All I can do is give you a little bit of my story and hope it helps. I wanted control over what was going on in my life. I really didn't have that control in any part of my life at the time I started. So to take that control that I craved I started cutting as time went on I finally stopped and then not to long ago I stated burning and scratching. Its a hard thing to stop. And you never know if you ever will stop because it becomes and addiction. All you can do is hope that you can control that addiction. I have yet to master that because at times I crave it more then anything else in the world.