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Old Aug 11, 2007, 04:23 PM
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<font color="#000088">So you slipped, I know how frustrating that can be after going an entire year. You feel like that whole year just got flushed down the toilet ,right? Wrong! Everything you learned about controlling those urges to cut, and keep yourself from cutting, the coping skills,whatever you did to replace the cutting is still there! It's all inside your head, just because you slipped up and cut again, that doesn't erase everything that you had learned during the year you had gone without cutting. You still carry that knowledge inside of you, and can still tap into it and try to use some of those same coping skills that helped you keep safe before, or even come up with new ones if you have to! But please don't be so hard on yourself, it's very difficult to quit cutting completely. You did great just by making it an entire year! Slipping up is very common with anyone who is trying to stop. So it doesn't make you a bad person for making a mistake. You actually are more of a success for being able to hold on for as long as you did! Don't be so hard on yourself, we all slip when trying to stop at one point or another! Nobody is perfect! But great work on the year without!
Good luck with fighting this,I think you can do it, just remember what helped last time you stopped! </font>