Secrets Thread - Read first post!

tips on how to cope: dealing with your feelings, dealing with the consequences of self-harm in your life. share your ideas and maybe pick up some new skills, too. you don't have to want to stop to learn something new here.

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Secrets Thread - Read first post!

Post by swirlish » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:04 am

Welcome back to Version 3.0 of the Secrets Thread.

Inspired by postsecret.com, this is a place where everyone can come and post a secret.

GUIDELINES:

- Secrets can often be painful and negative. That is okay. But that doesn't mean this thread can be used as a loophole to get around BUS rules.

- No attacks on other members. If you have a beef with another member, take it up with them.

- No suicide notes, and nothing that is pro-suicide.

- Nothing that is pro-SI or pro-ED - we understand that everyone here is in different stages of recovery, but there are places on the board where you can work out / through those feelings.

- No manipulative comments that you intend someone else to find and have a reaction to.

- You cannot post that you ARE hurting yourself, WILL WITHOUT DOUBT hurt yourself or HAVE hurt yourself if you need and don't intend to get medical help. "Hurting yourself" includes SI, SU, OD's, destructive eating disorder behaviour like purging or starving, as well as putting yourself in dangerous situations like approaching/ contacting an abuser. This stuff is either against BUS rules or belongs in the B&A forum, or somewhere you can get constructive feedback like main or some of the more "analysis-y" coping threads.


Can say:

I want to hurt myself.
I feel like I don't deserve to eat.
I feel like being skinny will solve my problems.
I want to die.
I feel fat.
I hurt myself.
Suicide feels like a good option.
I am scared to get help.

Can't say:

I have a blade in my hand and I'm cutting now.
Tomorrow at uni I'm going to hurt myself.
I've taken an OD and don't want anyone to know.
My friend wants to die and I think it's a good idea for him.
I'm not eating anything today because I don't deserve it.
I want to know how to purge better.
I'm going to kill myself next week.
Life sucks, so long y'all.



- You can ask for PM's/ comments, but if you really want replies, please don't be hesitant to go over to nest, or somewhere you'll know without doubt that you've been heard.

- As with anywhere else on the board, you must use spoilers if and when they are necessary.

WARNING

If this thread is not used constructively and continues to go against the spirit of the coping forum (as the old one did), it will be locked and it will stay that way.

Also, any person who continually uses this thread for unconstructive purposes (meaning, they violate the guidelines set above continually), will risk having their posting priveliges in this revoked.

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The Constructive Venting Thread

How You Feel And What You're Going to Do About It

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Post by stripysocks4christ » Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:33 pm

i feel guilty, but i also feel like i need to keep things together for everyone else....
"Love does not make the world go round... It’s what makes the ride worth while"
"Good friends lift you up when your wings forget to fly"

"Let Go and Let God"
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Post by Beasty » Fri Apr 02, 2010 12:51 am

I don't actually need the help. At least, I hope not.
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Post by breathing » Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:02 am

I am ashamed of everything that I am. I wish that I could truly escape myself for a short while, and come back and find myself 'happy'.

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Post by BigJetPlane » Sat Apr 03, 2010 2:59 am

i lie far too much
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Post by Eisa » Sun Apr 04, 2010 8:55 am

I feel like I'm a step away from falling apart. Completely. And I don't know if I can pick up the pieces if I do.
We come in pieces. :pinkstar:

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Post by stripysocks4christ » Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:45 pm

i cant believe i just did that!! :o im scared now....
"Love does not make the world go round... It’s what makes the ride worth while"
"Good friends lift you up when your wings forget to fly"

"Let Go and Let God"
"God will never let us fall without a plan on how to save us"
"For I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength" – Philippians 4:13

"I only lied so I didn't have to see the tears of disappointment in your eyes"
"I don't want the world to see me, cos I don't think that they'd understand..."


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Post by Eisa » Wed Apr 07, 2010 2:37 am

I feel like I'm unimaginably disgusting right now, and I can't believe I did that...omg eisa what is wrong with you???? :cry:
We come in pieces. :pinkstar:

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."~Nietzsche

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Post by Stawberry_Lollipops » Wed Apr 07, 2010 3:31 pm

I feel so guilty & ashamed at the way I feel. There are bigger problems in the world, there are people with much worse problems then mine. I don't feel I deserve to feel anything. I should be happy but I just can't.
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Post by breathing » Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:42 am

You are a terrible employee. I couldn't even blame the district if you got fired, even though I'd be pissed... but you ruin kids' self esteem all of the fucking time. If I had told you that a school employee said the same shit that you say to kids ALL of the time, you would report them. If I had a lesser soul, I would report you, myself - or perhaps I don't report you because of my own selfishness.

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Post by Chaocontrol6 » Thu Apr 08, 2010 7:59 pm

I love my parents to bits, but I really hope they come round sooner or later with my "Being Gay" stuff. I'm sick to death of having to tip toe on eggshells. I just want to be 100% accepted again.
Just let time tell the story, and act accordingly. (Phrase by myself)
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Post by mephistopheles » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:34 pm

I'm happy with my sexuality.
I'm not happy with your world.
“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.”

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Post by Eisa » Thu Apr 08, 2010 10:45 pm

I'm not nearly as put together as I pretend to be. :-?
We come in pieces. :pinkstar:

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Post by SplinteredGirl » Fri Apr 09, 2010 3:05 am

when you said i was doing so much better, allthough true, i didnt tell you i resorted to SI earlier this week. its easier for me that way.. You love me and i love you but hurting you hurts me even more then you can imagine. sorry :heart:

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Post by breathing » Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:10 pm

I know I'm shutting myself off from the world and I know it's bad but I can't seem to stop this cycle.

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Post by Stawberry_Lollipops » Sun Apr 11, 2010 8:07 am

She is lying to me. I know deep down she is. But I won't say anything. I'll just keep on pretending that she's not. I'll keep letting myself get hurt. I'm not stronger enough to turn my back on her.
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Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” - Lewis Carroll


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Post by Snow Belle1986 » Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:18 pm

If you had asked me to leave with you I would have.

I wish I wasn't there with G cuz maybe that's why you didn't ask.
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Post by Forget Me » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:30 pm

With my history of depression, every time I get PMS I'm terrified it's all coming back... only to have it all go away after a week or so. I had hoped the emotional rollercoaster would go away when I recovered, and I feel like my body is betraying me every month.

Another part of me somehow misses the pain... I wish I understood myself.
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Post by elizabethpoe31 » Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:17 pm

I don't know if I can handle college. I can't let everyone down. If everything doesn't work out, I'm terrified of what everyone will think.

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Post by strider 151 » Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:30 pm

i dont have nightmeres about you anymore
PBH, Telling my parents, My place - All welcome [hugs, stars, challenges, questions are all ok :gooddeal: :Fade-color

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