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tools to help you assess your urges before you give in to them, and to help you understand and learn from slips after they happen. by posting here, you're saying that you are serious about exploring the feelings behind your self-harm in depth, whether you're ready to stop hurting yourself or not. to request posting access, click usergroups above and join before and after.

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smiles-of-pain
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Post by smiles-of-pain » Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:40 pm

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Hoping you can beat this..

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abbyfornow
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Post by abbyfornow » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:17 pm

I am proud of you! Good job fighting and using writing as a good coping strategy. Writing will not only release, but it will help you understand your thoughts better and the openness will bring healing- so way to go!
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Post by StevieLynn » Sat Feb 17, 2007 7:41 pm

It sounds like you really have a handle on this. You are recognizing the urge but finding ways not to act on it. That takes a lot of strength and you should be proud of yourself for that.

Sometimes when I am feeling panicky and feel like I need to SI to releave some of that chest tightness, I do an activity that is meditative for me. My big one is knitting, but anything simple and repetetive helps me. Sometimes I just shuffle cards. I find it helps to keep my hands busy. Do you do anything like that? Just a thought.

Write. Write and write and write until everything is out of you. Until it's all down on a page instead. Then perhaps destroy that page? Burn it or tear it up or something to symbolize destroying the feelings and beating the urges.

Hang in there. I'm proud of you for recognizing that you don't want to SI to feel better.

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And it felt like a winter machine that you go through and then you catch your breath and winter starts again, and everyone else was springbound. And when I chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line I crossed. I wasn't worth the pain my death would cost, so I was not lost or found....But when you live in a world, well, it gets in to who you th ought you'd be. And now I laugh at how the world changed me. I think life chose me after all.
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