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Yesterday was horrible. The whole day, all I wanted to do was make just one more cut. Just one. It won’t become a habit. Just once. But deep inside, I know it will become a habit. All it takes is two times. I already scratch myself continually to the point where I tell my friends I have a soap allergy. I also want to eat part of a bar of soap. It’s just an urge I have. I know I shouldn’t, and anyway I would have to find an excuse for stealing a bar of soap from the downstairs bathroom. Idk, I’ll just have to wait this stuff out. The urges are just getting unbearable though. Especially the cutting one. Oh well. I’ll figure it out. I always have. Sort of.
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Hey Dear, You don't know me and that's okay. I love you though. That is my problem. I love people and when you are hurting you should look into reaching out for help. I don't cut but I do have Trichotillomania and it basically means I pull out my hair and eyebrows and eye lashes as part of an anxiety coping mechanism. It is also a form of self harm because sometimes, it does hurt. I am working on controlling this issue though and if you need help please reach out to me. I can't promise to give you all the answers or to make the pain and hurt go away but I can promise to always be there and that I am a good listener. I love you. Be safe. Love, your new friend, Me.
Replylife is hard but we can think about what is going to happen next might be easy.
ReplyI understand how you feel, I scratch my arm to the point it bleeds and takes weeks of careful supervision and cleaning to heal and when it does it leaves dark marks all over my arm. I also pick at my skin a lot, which I have been told is a form of self harm as well. A way that I have been told to stop or at least curve the urge is to do something else with my hands, for me it's drawing, writing or playing the piano. honestly, thats 25% of the reason I use this website.
For the soap thing, maybe try chewing gum.
I hope you feel better. Life really is sh**, but it has people who are loving (including beautiful-soul-21) and honestly, that's the biggest part of making life bearable.
Good luck, lots of love
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ReplyAnd Anxious Nerd I just wanted to say this is the writer and you remember that other one you saw called Self Harm Advice? I wrote that too, so thanks for that as well.
ReplyI kinda guessed that. I hope my comments helped. I know how terrible this can all be, especially if you don't have anyone to talk to about it. And I know people usually say to just stop, but I think that it's just better to do it safely and try to get through it on your own time, if that makes sense.
Well, I hope you stay safe and remember that lots of people care about you and want to support you.
With love,
AN
ReplyGuys this isn’t the writer and oh my gosh I had no idea there were such nice people on this website! Thanks all you guys I’ll remember you!
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ReplyLet me start this by saying I self harm too so I understand what you are going through. If you have the urge to cut yourself there are a few methods you could try to stop yourself with. 1- if you like the blood or the marks then draw on yourself with a red marker, make yourself an art piece or just make random lines where ever you have the urge to cut. 2-draw something on yourself that represents a person or the name of a person in your life that loves you and wouldn’t want you hurt. Write or draw this one the place that you want to cut. When you get the urge to cut think about them and how much they care about you instead and distract yourself. 3 distractions with friends are the best. If you are around them it makes it harder to cut discretely and you may not even have the urge. 4- I really don’t recommend this at all but if you cut it is a lot easier for it to get out of hand then doing this. With cutting you could cut to far to easy. If you use a sewing needle to prick yourself it is harder to get deeper but still gives you pain of that is what you are after. What I personally want from cutting is the sting that the cuts give me. Again I don’t recommend this as a good way to quit but it is a better alternative that cutting. 5- again everothig I said about the last one applies here (don’t do this as a method of quitting but it is less harmful that cutting open skin very directly). this is what is do, use a box cutter(full of you want to put more pressure and sharp it you don’t want to put much pressure) press it into the skin like you would using a butter knife on butter(don’t move back and forth and just keep it in the same place) don’t press hard enough to break skin. It will feel almost like a large paper cut if you don’t or barely break the skin. As a last warning don’t do the last two methods and try to quit using the first three. I really hope you get and feel better and quit cutting. also not every method works for everyone and I am not a professional. So look at sopport websites and go to therapy if you have to. I really hope you feel better.
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