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pinksoil said:
Would you mind sharing your reasons as to why you did?

</div></font></blockquote><font class="post">I reduced the pain and stress in my life so that I no longer needed to do it. (I went for what was causing the problem rather than just fighting the symptoms.) My SI was always caused by emotional pain. Since those days (over 20 years ago), I have had equivalent emotional pain, but somehow, I have managed to "outgrow" the coping response of cutting. It is associated with adolescence for me, and I am an adult now. Does that make sense? Now I use other ways to cope that maybe aren't that great (like withdrawing, avoiding) but at least I am not physically harming myself, and there are some who would say that is preferable.