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I recently turned 20 and I've been self injuring for more than 6 years. I don't know how to stop it. I thought I had it under control a couple of years ago when I started college. I thought I had kicked the habit. I was clean for months. After I drunkenly confessed to a few close friends that I was a cutter, and then, as a result, poured boiling water over my arm, I decided to stop. Part of the reason was I knew they would be watching me. I felt horrible. I felt like, now that they knew, they were treating me like I was crazy. They were treating me like a little kid. It made me really angry. I've had countless relapses since then, and the problem is worse than it ever was in high school. I've never sought help for it--telling people about it makes it too real. I need to stop, but I don't know how. Sometimes I feel like I need to cut to function, to feel normal. Sometimes I can't do to sleep unless I cut. It calms me down.
I've only seriously burned myself once. I had 3rd degree burns. I told everyone it was an accident and I had spilled the water on myself while draining pasta. The burn got infected and I could barely move my arm.
I pull my hair out. I used to think it was a nervous habit.
I give myself horrible bruises.
If there's nothing around for me to cut with, or I get the urge when I'm with people, I dig my nails into my skin until I feel better. Please help me. Post edited at 11:10 pm on July 6, 2008 by walktheline
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blufindr
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hide all your shit. move in with someone who can keep an eye on you for a time.
or book yourself into a clinic.
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[ℓiחŋie]&[вeиηy]
Someday when you're lonely / Sometime after all this bliss
Somewhere lost in emptiness / I hope you find this gift
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sidewalk
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every time i feel like cutting, i have a cigarette.
it's worked so far.
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fix the sky a little.
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BEAUTiFUL MESS
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Your body. Your rules.
Theres nothing you can really do to stop cutting besides just stop completely!!
I'm addicted to cutting. It's my life, I like it. WHO CARES what other people say, if you wanna do it, DO IT!
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BEAUTiFUL*MESS.
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redhotchilis64
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You need something more than a forum. Get help bro, you're in really deep with a really bad problem.
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For our sake I hope heaven and hell is really there...
but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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silverbullets
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well, what sort of things cause you to feel like SI'ing
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sick of being tired ~ and tired of being sick
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sourpatch831
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Go to people u can trust n be blunt with them, tell them that u cut urself but when u do tell them mention that u want help getting over it, my friend confessd to me that he was cutting himself n that he wanted to stop, so i took all razors from his house i even took the sissors n knifes, n i told his parents to lock them up, but then again he was 15 n i was about to turn 16. if u want help go to the people u know u can count on people that u love n that love u back.
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two, four, six, eight, look at me n masterbate
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dark eric
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Try tobacco. Its always the answer
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We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors,
We borrow it from our children
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calluna8122
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I'm a recovering self-injurer, and unfortunately there is no easy answer to that question. Although self-injurous behavior can become an addiction, it (almost) always a coping mechanism for another problem. So, the best way to try to stop is to first figure out the underlying reasons behind why you are self-injurying, and to deal with those first.
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The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot,
who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.
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