The Well... wow, this is a great technique!!! Thanks so much for sharing this - first, I'd like to say that your artistic skills are fantastic it looks so realistic and also, I feel like I always need to find new coping mechanisms... I've battled with depression and PTSD, and although in most ways I've been able to deal with them a lot better, and overcome certain aspects of them, I still feel the urge to cut sometimes. I don't really know why, and I guess that makes me pretty strange. Sometimes when I get really down, I want to. But I guess it's the times when I'm truly happy that I think about it the most, because certain parts of me still believe that I don't deserve this happiness, you know? Anyways, I'm rambling... but I really wanted to let you know that this coping mechanisms is really great, and I might try it out sometime. It really means a lot to me that you posted this, because I think that it can truly help many people cope with SI