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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hopeless25
hopeless25
I started cutting again and now i can't stop.. I love the rush, seeing the blood, and running my fingers across the fresh raised cut.;. I have to punish myself or i will never learn.. I'm not hurting anyone, and i do it on my upper arm so why stop...?
deleted_user
deleted_user
But you are hurting someone, your hurting YOU. It's not a healthy way to deal with what life brings us. And it won't ever get better, it won't give you that feeling of "all's okay" but it will get worse the more and longer you do it. You don't have to punish yourself, your not a bad person and your worth far more than what your doing to your body.

I'm sure you have friends and family that it hurts too, because your hurting yourself. There are ways to learn how to cope with the "life stuff" healthily without cutting yourself....but you have to be willing to commit and do the work. Anything that's worth doing or having is generally tough to get.

Kat