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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Stupid *trigger*

xBlissx
xBlissx
After months of not having SI, I cut the other night and now I feel like I've got to do it every night. The urge is unbelievable! I never had this before. I only ever do it when things are REALLY bad. Where has this compulsion come from?

Also I STUPIDLY scratched "think happy thoughts" above a long scar I have on my arm. I don't know why I did it, it was just going round and round my head and seemed kind of ironic. So I decided to scratch it into my arm as a reminder.

x-Bliss-x
deleted_user
deleted_user
looking at my former scars also triggers me sometimes...I don't know why I guess it's cause it was just such a comfortable feeling I was so used to..it just reminded me of my former "coping" device...and now I can't hide from my emotions anymore and I actually have to face them which seems a whole hell of a lot worse than cutting =\
TwilightStar
TwilightStar
Urges can come on very strong when you have a slip up. My advise it to step back and take a breath. The urges may be strong but you have the power to take control. You have gone without SI before, you can break free again. You do -not- have to do this every night.

Remember the coping skills that have gotten you this far. Distraction, the whole rubber band / marker / ice thing. Whatever else you have used.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I see my scars and I think about how long it's bbeen . I was 19 I never heard of such a thing. .

I attended an art trade school in my thirties that hacd a lot of goth kids. SI scars they were quickly being cover by the 19 and 20 years olds with tatoos.

I think about having my removed. I talk to a 38 year old ex girl friend that had several doctors use lasers to try to fix her arm.

Truth is people will never stop thinking: " If they do that to themselves what might they do to me, my family, my children."
kittydodge
kittydodge
When you cut your body releases endorfines(however ya spell it) that make ya feel good that can be addicting