Self-Injury Support Group

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I do all of the normal physical SI, but I also punish myself in a social way.
Like I don't allow myself to have friends, I have'nt talked to any of them in almost a year.
I don't allow myself to leave the house- not even to walk my dog or go jogging.
And if someone tries to make conversation with me I tell myself I don't deserve someone being nice to me and that they are faking it and they are only talking to me b/c they feel sorry for me- so I find a way out as fast as I can.

Does anyone else do this? Like purposely make yourself feel like you are all alone and every one has turned against you when really you did it to yourself?
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why wouldn't you let yourself have friends or go out? you're killin me!! you deserve all that and more. of all the people i've met on this site, i love you more than any of them. you're seriously a badass and i really wish you'd realize it. i love talking to you, you listen to my bs, you crack me up. sometimes i get into that mood where i think everyone's against me and everything, sometimes they are and i know its my fault, but you gotta lighten up. i don't know how anyone could not like you so loosem up, go out, and let yourself have some fun. i wish you lived out here, i'd take you to some parties and MAKE you have fun. don't feel so down, meg-ho from chicago driving the aveo with her dog dingo luvs ya to death!
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Some of this reminds me of the way i can be sometimes! If anyone ever gets close to me i have this inbuilt thing i personality which will push them away like it changes my behaviour so i become the sort of person that perosn liked before when we became friends! In a way ive learnt to cope with being alone now and i cant stand being around people unless im online! i never saaw it as a punishment in my case, to punish myself id have to force myself into a group of people lol!

Atleast you have been able to identify it though and maybe you can work to try and reverse the damage it did ~ Hugs ~
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this is my usual word FEAR your afriad wht people think and how they do
if you self harm then you have scars?
with me i feel like a freak! not normal, weird ect thats why i hate to go out!
but i never go out anyway because im not allowed because my mum also thinks in the same way
be positive!!!!
write if you need me xx
smiling is infectious,
you catch it like the flu.
When someone smiled at me today,
i started smiling to.
:)

i passed around the corner,
and soemone saw my grin.
when he smiled i realised,
i'd passed it onto him.
:)

Ithought about that smile,
then i realised its worth.
a single smile just like mine,
could travel around the earth.
:)

so if you feel a smile begin,
dont leave it undetected.
lets start and epidemic quick,
lets get the world infected!!!!!

x