Trying to recover

I am trying to recover from self injury. I cut my arms and legs. I also take pills by the bottles. I've ended up in the hospital several times, and I am tired of slicing my arms and legs. It's addicting though, and I want to stop! Please help!

I want to welcome you too our little place. I am glad you found us. I hope you will find here the support you need to aid you in stopping this behavior. I know how hard it is too stop. Everyone here is trying and together we find support and hope. I think the most important thing is to figure out what is lying under the behavior. I look at SI as a symptom of a larger problem. It is also addictive so as I resolve that larger problem that lies beneath I also have deal with the addictive SI behavior. It is a tricky business. I am so glad I have all the people here to give me a helping hand and a supportive shoulder to lean on. Do you have therapist you are seeing? What does she/he think of your difficulty?
Carrie

<font color=blue>If you have two dollars, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will feed your body and the flowers will feed your soul."--Arabic Saying

Welcome to our area. Zen is correct - we are all here fighting to stop doing such an addictive, self-destructive habit.

You do need to find the underlying cause of what is making you doing this. It's hard, and requires a lot of thinking about painful things. If you don't, you'll never get past it.

It's also normal to slip sometimes and get overwhelmed by life. We'll help you as much as we can because we care.

I've been doing it for about a year. I had stopped but am very, very close to the edge again. I am already taking too many pills just to see how close I can get...........and I know where that leads from past experiences.

Try to tell us as much as you are comfortable with and we'll help. Take care.


Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

What happened to your friends?

I just have such a hard time... I think part of it is the death of 6 close friends. Another is well... I know what it is i think, it's just that I can't controll what's happening. I don't even realize thaat I'm doind\g it you know, I just do it with out thinking. I do have a theripist, and she's threatening me with being sent to a suicidal teen lock down facility, becuase on top of all this, I've tried killing myself several times. She says that I need to face my problems and work them out, rather then make them simply fade away... Which is what she says I'm trying to do.

At this point I think it is imperative that you get the help you need and follow your therapist's advice. It sounds like you have been through a major trama with the loss of your friends and need help coping with it. Please seriously consider what your therapist is suggesting. Keep yourself safe.
Carrie

<font color=blue>If you have two dollars, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will feed your body and the flowers will feed your soul."--Arabic Saying

Well, one comitted suicide, the 3 died in the same car accident, because the driver was drunk and he hit Jessie, and so then he spun out of conrtol, and the only peopl in that car of 12 that survived wer the driver and Chrissy. Then her twin Abby died of cancer.

You need help before you overload. All that stuff has to be worked through and I don't think you can do it on your own.

The first priority is that you must keep yourself safe. That means anytime you have that urge to do something, you have to call someone or get to the hospital immediately.

Neither is easy - and when you feel those urges, I know you don't want to do either of them, but you have to.

Those feelings/problems don't fade away hun.......they simply fester under your surface till something makes them explode. Take it from someone that knows. I'm really good at taking my issues and putting them into "boxes" and then onto shelves in my "closet". That room has lots of boxes, believe me.

Please see your therapist and get some help. Keep talking here, PM me or someone else if you want to talk, just don't do anything foolish. Okay?





Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard