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Originally Posted by alymarie1894
I attempted suicide 2 months ago by slitting my wrist in multiple places, now I have these really bad thick red scars. I hate them. I feel so self conscious about them. I don't wear short sleeves around my house or out in public. I'm scared people are going to judge me because of them. How do I begin to accept what I did to myself? How do I become less self conscious? If you have bad scars how do you explain it to people that ask?
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I have really obvious scars too, but on my legs. (the only good thing about eczema is it mostly hides the scars on my arms) I used to hide them and always wear pants. But my youth pastor actually talked about cutting one night at church, and he said that cutting didn't make a person any less than anyone else, no one was perfect... and after that I wasn't so ashamed of my scars. I even wear skirts. (the first couple times I was self-conscious but now I don't even think about it) if people ask, and they rarely do, I just joke about the scars. "have you even tried to put on leggings?" (to a boy) or something stupid like that.
You don't need to be ashamed
