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.
Everything just keeps getting harder and harder. My temper is getting worse. I snapped at a girl at lunch today in front of the whole cafeteria. I have been clean 4 weeks but my wrist is itching badly again. I just tried coming out to my family and got shot down. The first words out of their mouths were can you please just study the bible more. Talk about ouch. My family always said they would be accepting. That was just a big lie. I'm gonna go home and find my razors again.
As for studying the bible more, just remember what Jesus had to say about sexuality... nothing at all, ever!
let me re-phrase..... your family SHOULD be saying love the sinner - not the sin.
I do disagree with your lifestyle, but that would not prevent me from welcoming you into my home and loving you as if you were my own child.
Gods blessings to you. And I hope he reminds your family that GRACE is one of the greatest words ever. They should ponder on it.
You can't change others reactions only your response to them.
I am really sorry this is happening to you but if I can make it over a year without SI, you can too!
When I was in high school, in my chronic cutting days one night I sat my parents down, showed them my scars, my open wounds and told them I cut - a lot.
Now, at 26, my mother is still in denial about it.
She doesn't want to think she failed me as a mother, I get it.
Doesn't make it right, but I get it.