Hi music, and welcome. Coping has been a major theme for me lately. I understand wanting to cut yourself, because that's one that I have used. The problem with it is that it doesn't help in the long run. It hurts you again and makes things worse, and takes you further away from healing. I know it's hard to get through the pain of the moment though, and when one coping method isn't working, or becomes inaccessible, or you decide not to do it, we tend to pick up another one. Sometimes what really would help is to sit through the pain until you know that you can make it through, although I know that is really hard. Maybe we could make a list of some positive coping methods and you could choose what you think might help you in the long run and be worth trying.

I'll start it off, and maybe you can add to the list.

Write about your feelings.
Listen to music.
Read.

If you look in the self-injury forum, there is a list pinned to the top of the forum of things to do instead of SI. If you feel safe enough to go and look at that list, you might find some ideas there too. I hope you don't try cutting. It's really hard to stop, and in the long run, it doesn't help.

I'm going to add a trigger icon to this post because of the discussion of self injury, ok?

TC,
Rap