I need Help I can't stop SH

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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I need Help I can't stop SH

Post by Missy Leigh » Tue Dec 19, 2006 10:03 pm

I have been SH for the last eleven years and I want to stop but I can't find a coping skill that takes away the urges and helps me to stop. I don't know what to do :1paw:
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Post by syn » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:04 am

Have you tried seeing a therapist to help you figure out how best to cope and see you through the process?
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Post by Spidey » Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:34 am

there are tons of coping skills. have you tried anything that's in the forum stickies? the coping resources sticky might help...
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Post by beautiful_facade » Wed Dec 27, 2006 1:52 pm

What coping strategies have you tried?
It's not going to happen overnight; it'll take work. But it *can* happen.
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Post by Missy Leigh » Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:33 am

I have a therapist ahd her for 8 years. Everythind from running and exercising to journaling and drawing I have tried. but I get to a point where I get bored with these coping skills and so they don't interest me anymore. I don't know why.. I don't know where to go from here???
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Post by beautiful_facade » Thu Dec 28, 2006 11:28 am

Perhaps you could try to explain to your therpist what you have just said here?
i understand the 'getting bored' thing...what *does* interest you?

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