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.
I know it's addictive, and I know each of us gets something out of it, but can it ever overall be positive, even in one instant?
To give you an idea of where this is coming from, I was so certain I was going to kill myself last night - I had everything ready and laid out until I sat back and thought I'd give myself one last chance in the form of cutting - if that could take the edge off of it, maybe I would make it through one more night, and clearly I did...
...I don't want to in anyway advocate self-harm, I still hate that it ended up being my last resort, and I went through such a long patch of not cutting, but I'm not sure it didn't save my life last night...
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I have a feeling some replies will be more aimed at trying to get me help/ into the hospital. I really appreciate the care and concern that that conveys, but I do have a psychiatrist who I pretty much trust, and I've been hospitalized twice to know exactly what it can and can't do for me, and right now, I'm not going back.
To give you an idea of where this is coming from, I was so certain I was going to kill myself last night - I had everything ready and laid out until I sat back and thought I'd give myself one last chance in the form of cutting - if that could take the edge off of it, maybe I would make it through one more night, and clearly I did...
...I don't want to in anyway advocate self-harm, I still hate that it ended up being my last resort, and I went through such a long patch of not cutting, but I'm not sure it didn't save my life last night...
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I have a feeling some replies will be more aimed at trying to get me help/ into the hospital. I really appreciate the care and concern that that conveys, but I do have a psychiatrist who I pretty much trust, and I've been hospitalized twice to know exactly what it can and can't do for me, and right now, I'm not going back.
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i wouldnt say it is "good" in the true sense of the word, but i find it is helpful in the sense that it stops me killing myself, as it did you, and provides an alternative to suicide that allows me to express my feelings, not necessarily in a healthy way but it expresses them all the same. so it is helpful in that sense although id love to stop for many reasons, scars etc.
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I have been here before, a long long time ago and now I am back.Forgive me for not just saying what I want to say,even under a triple dose of antidepressants it is still raw and seeping and I am hesitant at revealing it as at least under the bandages around my heart I don,t have to look at how raw and wounded.My child was cleaved from my heart by his own actions. my child of ten,turning eleven...
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
