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.
Hello, im new here.
I almost broke the need for it but woke up with more cuts and now can stop thinking about wanting to cut.
Maybe it's the taste of blood I need and to destroy something
This is all made worse by having alters (multiple personalities) people can go and tell me not to do it oer and over but they always do anyway
maybe it's just to be bad i dont know
anyway I have had some like need to taste blood ever since I was little, I remember making my nose bleed just to taste it.
cutting calms me down for a while but it then just repeats the cycle and I dont know how to stop it
im just told to stop looking at violence to stop the addiction to it but telling someone not to do something kinda makes them do it
Yeah, when people tell you to "just stop", they have never had a sort of addiction because if it were that easy, we'd be better.
First off, therapy and appropriate medication do a lot of good. Have you had an opportunity to utilise those?
As for the taste, is there something else that could satisfy that taste? I know people say pennies taste like blood. Perhaps you can disinfect a penny and suck on it when the urge strucks up?
2: I can try that maybe
thank you