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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by waxbutterfly » Tue Sep 28, 2004 11:13 pm
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've been trying so hard to get better, and to do my coursework, and to be happy, but it just doesn't work. i feel like i'm completely hollow. i'm too empty to even be sad, and i just don't know what to do. i hate feeling like this. can anyone give me some idea of how to feel better? or at least how to feel something? i just can't go on like this.
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is it getting better, or do you feel the same? does it make it easier on you now you've got someone to blame? well it's too late tonight to drag the past out into the light. we're one, but we're not the same. we've got to carry eachother.
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by scarlit_sky » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:07 am
I wish I could help, but I don't know what to say....
Just wanted to let you know that I read and I care....
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by Strange Glue » Wed Sep 29, 2004 12:53 am
This isn't something I highly recommend, and I try to avoid using it unless I feel I must for some reason...
But I will often look for things online that I know push my buttons. Things that make me mad (political ranting forums are great for that) or things that would normally make me cry (angst fanfic involving deaths/other unsavories, usually).
It can snap me out of the nothingness, but it's pretty extreme and can backfire in a big way if I'm not extremely careful afterwards.... Which is why it's not something I recommend. I just don't know any other ways for when things get really bad
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I clothe them and feed them
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by limestone » Wed Sep 29, 2004 8:40 pm
waxbutterfly wrote: or at least how to feel something? i just can't go on like this.
go for a walk
place an ice-cube on your wrist
suck a lemon
listen to happy music
draw/paint
eat healthy
get enough sleep
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by ~BrokenGlass~ » Fri Oct 08, 2004 8:52 pm
scream... scream as loud as you can and for as long as you can till you need to take a breath!
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by angelic212 » Sat Oct 09, 2004 9:25 am
i wish i knew what to say except that i know the feeling i know how you are feeling sweetie and im sorry that you feel like this i dont have any uselful advice for what you are going through cause im going through the same thing right now you can pm me any time you want to im willing to listen to you . i just want to say that iknow how you are feeling. the same thing is happening to me at the moment
love always maria
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