[Jleigh94]

Sometimes i take a thumbtack and a scratch and scratch at my skin till it bleeds. I dont want to kill myself, the opposite really. I want to feel alive, to feel something other than sadness. The pain makes me feel, it helps me.

[tealBumblebee]

As a cutter, I can not tell you to stop. I do completely understand. I just wanted to say that if you're going to use a thumbtack please make sure its new and not rusted to avoid accidental infection.

[mazing]

I completely understand the feeling You are definitely not alone here.

Self-injury is common, and not easy to overcome. It has to all be in your own time. If you do want to stop though there are a lot of resources that can help you find other ways to manage the sadness. The stickies in this forum have a lot of that info

[Stronger]

If I can offer some encouragement,
I struggled with self-injury for a very long time. At times it seemed like the only way I could ever deal with the pain because I didn't know how to talk about all the other problems i had. But after a while it turned into something much worse than it was when I had started. It became a full blown addiction for me. If I can caution you against that. The sooner you set yourself on the road to healing, the easier it will be to heal. There are SO many other effective ways to cope with the pain even though it may not feel that way.
If you feel it will be incredibly hard to stop, then let me offer some tips from personal experience. Hold ice. (That one helped me through SO many withdrawal symptoms). Put your face in a bowl of ice water. (I HATE getting my face wet, so that one I only used for emergencies. But it works incredibly). Put a lemon under your tongue. And most importantly, do not fantasize about it. That is one of the worst things you can do.
I hope these help and that you will find hope and healing through time and persistence.

[ickydog2006]

That's a perfectly normal reason to SI. I just want you to know that it will get worse if you keep going with it. You'll have to do more or go deeper. I hope you read /look up 'before you make the first cut', cause that is where this is headed, and it is a long awful road trying to quit and only gets harder. Ice helped the most for me. Beating up the floor with a pillow helped too, and I hope some day the void that cutting left will be filled.

[lafaver55]

Just started Ashamed because I don!t want my daughter to see. Looking for advic ?

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[silenceheals]

Question... Is scratching to si and cutting to is the same??

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[silenceheals]

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[mazing]

Hi silenceheals, I believe that they are. If you are intentionally harming yourself, no matter how you do it it's still SI.

[silenceheals]

Thanks I was thinking that i may feel better if I called it something else...

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[ImaginaryPeople]

I have been cutting for a while now. I don't think it's the pain, that causes me to cut.. I think I'm addicted to my blood and scars..? Anyways. I live in constant fear that my mum finds out. I have my wrists and legs full of scars..