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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
I relate to this a lot.
I haven't self-harmed, since I was a teenager. It has been 22 years. I vowed, that I would never do it again. So far I have kept my word.
No one knows except for a few people. I refuse to wear short sleeves in public and around my family especially my mother.
I'm looking into getting them covered up. I cannot stand looking at them, because they remind me of a terrible time in my life. Plus they imply certain things that don't apply to me whenever a clinician sees them.
I did this because it was a social contagion. At that time I was vulnerable and impressionable. It seemed to have compensated for my poor communication skills.
Violating my body in this way is my biggest regret in life. I cannot seem to get past it. I wish, I had a dermal regenerator like they do in Star Trek.
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Getting a tattoo over them really helped me. I'm not sure how well that works in case your scars are raised, but even then it's possible to incorporate them into a design that makes them less prominent.