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This is probably a really stupid question, but you'll have to excuse me, I'm a fleeting visitor from f/f board. I know (I think) that when you SI, it's all about the moment and coping with it. So that probably answers my question, because I'm thinking about long-term stuff. Lots of scars will fade ...

Hiya, Just to say similar works for me too. I have looked at pictures before of injuries worse than what I tend to inflict, and it had a kind of "yuck" reaction, as if that was the horrible reality of SI. I didn't want injuries like those in the photos, so I didn't injury. I can't really explain, bu...

:star: Name: Karen :star: Are you currently trying to stop or reduce SI: Well I was...but I just got all my tools back from a flatmate, so I don't know what I'm doing anymore :star: If so what is your motivation: I know SI isn't a healthy long term coping method, I don't want scars and I don't want ...

I spend so long tellling myself not to cry that when I want to, I can't. Sad music, films etc never work for me, they just make the urge to cry more painful. I see crying as a weakness in myself, and I think that's where this stems from. Consciously I want to cry, but subconsciously I'm still saying...

Do you use coping methods (healthy ones... :wink: ) in combination or just on their own? Combination Name something that helps you to cope beginning with the letter 'A'. Animals...my pony :) Do you see coping ideas as ways to banish feelings/urges or as a way to process/deal with how you're feeling...

Hi :) To give you what you seem to want a) someone to vent to and b)a friend, you need to be looking for two separate people. While friends can be wonderfully supportive, amazing people, to go looking for a friend just to support you seems to me unlikely to be a way to form a stable long lasting rel...