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.
First i was wondering if other people also
1) cut
2) self hit
3) head bang
4) scratch
5) pull hair
It's very hard to get through the day without doing at least one of the behaviors. I have seen therapists for about 8 years or so, and have been self harming for about 6. Nothing seems to help really. I just have so much self hatred. I can't do anything right for myself (or, as i also believe, for anyone else). I know people love me, but i cannot understand why.
I don't have relationships, never really have (romantic anyway-i do have one friend). The SI in all its forms acts to keep me away from other people, and it serves as a response to the fact that i have no relationships, and furthers this problem by making me ashamed of what i have done to my body. I really want to truly contemplate being in a relationship/experiencing love because i am so incredibly lonely and isolated, but my anxiety and depression are so high, and the scars are so numerous (and telling, since i have carved words relating to my eating disorder onto myself) that i am paralized.
Does anyone else deal with this? Is there any advice that anyone has?
Thank you
1) cut
2) self hit
3) head bang
4) scratch
5) pull hair
It's very hard to get through the day without doing at least one of the behaviors. I have seen therapists for about 8 years or so, and have been self harming for about 6. Nothing seems to help really. I just have so much self hatred. I can't do anything right for myself (or, as i also believe, for anyone else). I know people love me, but i cannot understand why.
I don't have relationships, never really have (romantic anyway-i do have one friend). The SI in all its forms acts to keep me away from other people, and it serves as a response to the fact that i have no relationships, and furthers this problem by making me ashamed of what i have done to my body. I really want to truly contemplate being in a relationship/experiencing love because i am so incredibly lonely and isolated, but my anxiety and depression are so high, and the scars are so numerous (and telling, since i have carved words relating to my eating disorder onto myself) that i am paralized.
Does anyone else deal with this? Is there any advice that anyone has?
Thank you
And you dont need to know exactly what style of therapy fits you, even if you can just say you want to try something different you can brainstorm with your counselor a bit more.