First I want to Welcome you to the forums. I am glad you have found our little group. If I have already welcomed you forgive my forgetfulness, I am in a tense situation right now.

There is some speculation that SI is an addictive activity. It releases an opiate like chemical in the brain that the body starts craving. Perhaps the indepth discussion about self injury has triggered an addictive craving. For instance I haven't smoked since last August but whenever I see someone in a movie take a nice long drag of a cigarette I crave it like nobody's business. I have found thinking of it this way I am more able to sit with the craving and not act on it because I am trying to stop an addiction. It gives the discomfort a purpose.
Carrie


<font color=green>But the implicit and usually unconscious bargain we make with ourselves is that, yes, we want to be healed, we want to be made whole, we're willing to go some distance, but we're not willing to question the fundamental assumptions upon which our way of life has been built, both personally and societally.--Bill Plotkin, Soulcraft