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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andi0828 04/07/2013

i started cutting at around 12 did it just about all the time for a few years I finally stopped at 16 had slip ups evey now and then but note i just want the thoughts to stop. I can't have these urges to do this i'm a mother of a 2 year old and have one on the way. i was supposed to grow out of this bit it had never left me. If something happenes and i get mad our upset i just want to be mad or upset not have thoughts of harming myself going threw my head.I just want it to stop.

deleted_user 04/07/2013

I don't know when it will end. What kind of other stuff have you tried instead of cutting? Like, what stuff do you do to distract yourself?

deleted_user 04/08/2013

lovelittlelucy makes a great point. People cut (or any other bad habit) to cope with whatever it is that bugs them. It's damaging and causes more problems than it solves BUT it is a way to cope.

It isn't enough to stop doing a lousy way to cope. You have to replace it with a GOOD way to cope, and do that instead.

So what do you do? Yoga, meditate, paint, sing, aerobics, martial arts, read, watch movies, write novels?

If all you did was quit a lousy way to cope, with no replacement, no wonder you still think about the lousy way to cope.

andi0828 04/09/2013

I try to paint or.go outside or do anything to try not to think about it but i have 2 year old its not all that easy to just stop and paont when i have him.

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