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Originally Posted by cmlwtcos
I signed up for summer courses at the community college as a lame excuse to not go. I'm too afraid of my skin to have fun with my friends. I want to stop, I even started saving money for laser skin resurfacing and I told myself if I stop, I'll get my scars removed.
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It's hard, you don't realise the long term impact it can have on your life at the time of SI, you don't seem to realise how it can lower your self esteem, your self image even further.
When you eventually stop SI another battle seems to begin and that is how do you live with the physical signs of what was once an emotional problem.
My daughter when she saw my scars for the first time asked 'mummy what are these' my initial reaction was to pretend that she didn't see them and distract her by tickling her.