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.
Finding out WHY I cut helped me to stop. I don't even want to anymore. I joined this to hopefully help people come though what I did.
I'll start off.
I used to cut because...
I hated myself. Once I decided to forgive myself for the little mistakes I made every day, and forgive myself for not saving the world, and accepted myself for who I am, I stopped wanting to cut.
Another thing that helped me was telling someone who lived near me. She would demand to know what I did, and she always was threatening to tell my parents if I did it anymore. She never did, I ended up telling them because I had a brief moment where I wanted to stop.
I'll start off.
I used to cut because...
I hated myself. Once I decided to forgive myself for the little mistakes I made every day, and forgive myself for not saving the world, and accepted myself for who I am, I stopped wanting to cut.
Another thing that helped me was telling someone who lived near me. She would demand to know what I did, and she always was threatening to tell my parents if I did it anymore. She never did, I ended up telling them because I had a brief moment where I wanted to stop.
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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??
i used to cut
because i hated myself
i felt like i needed to punish myself for not being perfect
i felt like i had no control in my life
it was the only thing i had control over
it was the one thing that nobody could take away from me
when i felt so numb
it let me know that i was alive
Primarily, it is due to the fact I hate myself, for not being good enough, having enough control, or I was being a burden to others. When the anger & rage inside gets bad, I lash out... usually at me.
Im glad that figuring out why you cut has helped you and I am soooo glad that you dont do it anymore. I am hoping that I can find someone soon to talk to.. i have a few people helping me track down someone in my area that has experience with SI so hopefully that will help me.
My dad knows about the self harming now, my husband and my b/f (long story) also know about it but sometimes they just dont understand why i do it and that getting angry at me for it just pushes me away and makes me not want to talk to them as an alternative even more.
not wanting to hurt my bf because i SI is the only thing that had kept me free of it for a year; but that isn't working anymore and i don't know any other way to stop it.
i never really thought about why i si like this.. but i'd have to say its somewhere along the lines of perfectionism, guilt, hatred, rage, being a burden, yet feeling alone. throw in a mental cloud and depression..