It has been about a year and 10 months since I last cut...but I am getting more and more temptation to recently. To make a very long story short, I left an abusive relationship and was able to find a new job in a new town. That job did not work out and I have since returned to my old job in my old town, where my old abusive ex still lives. I have also been having nightmares and issues with grinding my teeth at night. I often times have problems sleeping.

I don't want to start cutting again, but sometimes it just feels like the only way to relieve some stress that I have elsewhere. I don't want to though, and any time it has entered my mind in any kind of serious thought, I make myself do something else. I just wanted to know what others do to help them avoid the temptation?