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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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Post by look_at_me_now » Fri Feb 25, 2005 8:08 pm

can someone help me on how to handle scars

if i'm not ready to tell my parents and everything about my SI then i dont want them to see my scars...

i dont know how to cover them without lokoing suspicious

Help please

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Post by save_me_from_myself » Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:30 pm

hey, welcome to bus ---> have a welcome cow :moo:
i think there a good bit in the source book bout this *goes to look*
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there you go. Think there mostly bout reducing them but also try covering them with clothing?
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Post by falling... » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:59 pm

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Post by Laura » Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:05 pm

Yes there's lots of info on scars around BUS. If you look at the Sourcebook Contents Page it lists quite a few threads that will help.

Um, feel embarrassed plugging my own site :oops: but I recently added a page all about scars, it's <a href="http://uk.geocities.com/floor_sitter/sc ... l">here</a>.

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Post by thebrightside » Mon Feb 28, 2005 6:27 am

Hey, welcome to BUS! :moove:

About your question, the thread that someone recommended earlier is really good.

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Post by RG » Mon Apr 04, 2005 4:49 am

I duno for me, i bought this really high concentration of vitamin E cream (it's like goo though). It seems to work well, I also stumbled accross this site that had a homemade cream haven't tried it...... http://www.shatteredinnocents.com/self_injury.html
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Post by Tamrick » Mon Apr 04, 2005 7:17 pm

There are a lot of ways of covering scars. I'm going to list a few here - I haven't checked the links so I may just repeat a whole lot.

1. cover with clothes (this is the most obvious and most used method)
2. wrists and arms or ankles - wear bracelets
3. use vit E cream
4. sometimes base can be used to hide some scars (make up) but matching tones can be hard to get
5. cover with a bandage and make up a story about why you are bandaged (I'm not so keen on this method but anyway)
6. get a tattoo over a scar - only old scars
7. wear scar reduction patches to decrease the redness of a scar

Thats about all I can think of right now for hiding scars.

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Post by kaygirl » Thu Apr 07, 2005 4:50 pm

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Post by flashlight_lies » Fri Apr 08, 2005 3:18 am

if it's warm out and you want to wear a tank top or short sleeves so as not to look suspicious and it's arm scars you're worried about, try cutting the feet out of socks or cutting the legs off of tights and making hand/finger holes. you can wear one or two and look cool and DIY punk...and still get away with wearing short sleeves... :1beaming1:

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Post by Chessie » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:21 am

you can find sights on the internet that sell really cool arm warmers if you just do a search and take the time to browse through sites. Leg warmers can also be used as arm warmers without a thumb hole, or you can make a thumb hole...

or if your scars are limited to just the wrist area, you can by sweatbands for the wrist and they easily cover up scars...I wear them to had a really nasty scar that I have.
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Post by lauryn » Thu Apr 28, 2005 11:09 pm

emu oil
glycolic acid or other AHAs
and have heard from a little birdie that vit does little when applied topically but when ingested can aid
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