My coping mechanisms for about half of my life have all been negative. When I am struggling mentally I tend to drink, self harm, skip meds, isolate, basically anything self destructive I can think of.

Right now I’m not feeling too good. And I’m trying not to do those things, although I am isolating pretty damn good right now. The thing is I’ve been sober for over three months, and haven’t self harmed in over five months. But now I don’t know what to do to get myself through this. The urges to drink and to cut are just getting stronger and stronger and each day I’m just feeling worse.

I just don’t know what to do. I don’t know how to cope. How have I got this far and not learnt other coping mechanisms? I’m just struggling right now.