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Post by tears1315 » Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:45 am

* how will this situation or feeling change if i hurt myself? The situation wont change, but I'll be able to feel better for a little while
* what will hurting myself bring to the situation? what will it take away from the situation? umm....well it will take away my negative feelings for a little while but then again it will bring up more bad feelings because it will make me feel as though I'm not doing better
* how do i want to feel about this in the long run? is hurting myself likely to get me closer to or farther from feeling that way? In the long run I want to feel like I'm worth something to somebody. cutting isn't going to get me closer or farther away from that feeling though
* if hurting myself seems like my best option right now, how long will the relief it brings last? what will i do then? I'll probably only feel better for a couple hours at most
* what is something i could do now instead of hurting myself? how will it change the situation i'm in? how long will that change last, and what will i do then? Instead of hurting myself I can try to focus my attention somewhere else by reading or drawing but it will probably only distract me for a little while
* how will i feel tomorrow if i hurt myself? how will i feel tomorrow if i do the other thing i came up with? I'll probably still feel stupid either way
* what do i really want to do right now? how can i best honor the self-protective instinct that has me wanting to self-injure right now? what i really want to do is talk to the person who is making me feel this way, but that's not an option


* Why do I feel I need to hurt myself? What has brought me to this point? I feel like hurting myself because I don't know how else to make myself feel better about getting myself into the mess that I'm in. I'm basically in this situation because I put myself here.
* Have I been here before? What did I do to deal with it? How did I feel then? I've been in the same place for the past six months and I deal with it negatively everytime with cutting, sleeping pills and I feel as though at least it gets me through the night
* What I have done to ease this discomfort so far? What else can I do that won't hurt me? login to bus and complete these questions.
* How do I feel right now? stupid
* How will I feel when I am hurting myself? calm
* How will I feel after hurting myself? How will I feel tomorrow morning? after hurting myself i'll be able to calm down and maybe i can get a little rest. tomorrow morning I'll probably just be pissed at myself.
* Can I avoid this stressor, or deal with it better in the future? No, because i'm going to always be me
* Do I need to hurt myself? not really
Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.
I walk in my clothes unmarked by the voyage,
Then the most unnameable lust returns
Even then I have nothing against life


Without pain, there would be no suffering,
without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes.
To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows,
without it, there is no way of life.


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