Comments on: What to do When You Want to Self-Injure http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/ A Mental Health Survival Guide Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Scott Davis http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5652 Scott Davis Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:41:56 +0000 http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5652 Hi Hope, I'm very glad the article has helped you! I wish you all the best in finding your passion. Thanks for writing. Scott Hi Hope,

I’m very glad the article has helped you! I wish you all the best in finding your passion.

Thanks for writing.

Scott

]]> By: Hope http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5642 Hope Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:40:26 +0000 http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5642 i cut myself today after a gap o 7 years. when i first did it i didnt understand it but it did make me feel better. i stopped crying and jus didnt feel sad anymore. i actually felt alive.it made me feel good. i didnt know anything about the need to SI and its connection with depression. Until today. i just wanted to thank you for writing this piece. after reading it i know the reason, i know that there are people who would understand this aspect of me and that gives me the strength to fight my circumstances and take better care of myself. What i am going to do to get out of the 'mess' that is around me is to get back to something that really fills me with passion and hope. Hope it will work :) Thank you Scott you have no idea how much you have helped me. God Bless You. i cut myself today after a gap o 7 years. when i first did it i didnt understand it but it did make me feel better. i stopped crying and jus didnt feel sad anymore. i actually felt alive.it made me feel good. i didnt know anything about the need to SI and its connection with depression. Until today. i just wanted to thank you for writing this piece. after reading it i know the reason, i know that there are people who would understand this aspect of me and that gives me the strength to fight my circumstances and take better care of myself.

What i am going to do to get out of the ‘mess’ that is around me is to get back to something that really fills me with passion and hope.

Hope it will work :)

Thank you Scott you have no idea how much you have helped me.

God Bless You.

]]> By: fatalistic_rose http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5293 fatalistic_rose Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:32:48 +0000 http://www.findingyourmarbles.com/health/what-to-do-when-you-want-to-self-injure/#comment-5293 somehow this makes me feel a little less alone, my family thinks its strange and just ignore it becuase they dont know how to deal with. So I've been pretty much been alone with this for years. I used to take a razor blade and cut along the side of my wrist, to me the blood draining out used to represent a bit of the bad part of me leaving me. Then I met this guy that I liked and it actually stopped for a while, i thought i had someone finally and that the pain would go away. Then he walks away for a party boy lifestyle that i cannot fit into, so much for acceptance. After i beared my soul and told him about the sexual abuse by a cousin and my father's phyiscal beatings, his attempts to kill my mother. I cut myself that night 50 times, watched the blood drip to the floor, gaining a type of solace that only Si's would truly understand. it took me a little while after to realise that this just isnt working, and i decided to make a change. So strength came from somewhere and i started to fight my circumstances, it was hard but rewarding. its been 2 hard months with no cutting. What I did was a combination of what Scott speaks of in his article additionally when ever the feeling came i tried to get myself amongst people, that way i wouldnt cut because id be ashamed to with an audience. Its working...so far. I hope all of you work it out. I know its hard cuz most times you feel like your drowning in the ocean and all you really want is something to hold on too. My problems cant compare with what some people have gone thru but do give it a try atleast i think the combination of the methods works best..we gotta look out for each other cuz its a dark place down here. Blessings all the best everyone! somehow this makes me feel a little less alone, my family thinks its strange and just ignore it becuase they dont know how to deal with. So I’ve been pretty much been alone with this for years. I used to take a razor blade and cut along the side of my wrist, to me the blood draining out used to represent a bit of the bad part of me leaving me. Then I met this guy that I liked and it actually stopped for a while, i thought i had someone finally and that the pain would go away. Then he walks away for a party boy lifestyle that i cannot fit into, so much for acceptance. After i beared my soul and told him about the sexual abuse by a cousin and my father’s phyiscal beatings, his attempts to kill my mother. I cut myself that night 50 times, watched the blood drip to the floor, gaining a type of solace that only Si’s would truly understand. it took me a little while after to realise that this just isnt working, and i decided to make a change. So strength came from somewhere and i started to fight my circumstances, it was hard but rewarding. its been 2 hard months with no cutting. What I did was a combination of what Scott speaks of in his article additionally when ever the feeling came i tried to get myself amongst people, that way i wouldnt cut because id be ashamed to with an audience. Its working…so far. I hope all of you work it out. I know its hard cuz most times you feel like your drowning in the ocean and all you really want is something to hold on too. My problems cant compare with what some people have gone thru but do give it a try atleast i think the combination of the methods works best..we gotta look out for each other cuz its a dark place down here. Blessings all the best everyone!

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