EmilyMeAtSix / Jan 05 2010 10.32

Hey,

How can you be sure? By telling somebody. Probably a teacher maybe? You're right. It may not be as serious as some cases, but to make you do this there's obviously somehing worrying you. As you aren't at immediate risk, maybe you could talk to your teacher about what's bothering you first, and then if you find you are still self harming, talk about that too. Good luck!

SomethingCrazy / Jan 06 2010 17.26

Any case where someone wants to hurt themselves on purpose should be deemed serious in my opinion, regardless of the injuries. Someone who visits A&E with a massive cut can be in just as much internal pain than someone like you. That is true.

How can you be sure you won't do it again? The simple answer, you can't. But you can put stuff in place to try and help yourself if you ever do feel like doing it again. Clearly you are thinking about it, and so it would be wise to talk to someone about your feelings of needing punishment and being a 'bad person' because that must have stemmed from somewhere. Could you talk to your teacher or parents or friends or GP or something? That might help.

x

becca180995 / Jan 07 2010 13.22

you can never ever be sure your not going to self harm again. i should know!but all you can do is take things day by day and whenever you have the urge to burn cut or whatever else just think of the future and what might happen if you keep going on this way. If you do it once every while it can turn to few times a month to almost every day because it doesn't take long for the addiction to take hold of you.just remember.. you never "recover" from self injury. you just need to find better weays of releasing your anger, like writing down all your thoughts on paper then tearing the paper into tiny peices? or putting an ice cube to your arm(sounds strange but works :) )

 

goodluck :D xo

K1992 / Jan 07 2010 13.55

i started off with little things, once or twice i didn't think it was serious but as it became more and more i still didn't think it was serious.  trying to stop it now is good and those other guys are so right, talking is the best thing, whether its a letter talking to someone imaginary or talking on here talking is good, the best thing is that you've already started to talk :) well done,  if that does help and you find yourself scared at what you might be able to do to yourself try waking up every morning and thinking, " today i'm not going to self harm" and if you don't you get to be proud of yourself at the end of the day, it's the little steps  that  count, good luck

K

xxx

han-han / Jan 17 2010 13.45

when i started sh at first i only did it spread out n it wasnt a big deal and it wasnt as if the cuts i was makin even seemed like they mattered but then it got worse thats when it started gettin addictive and then i wanted to do it more and more and more...

it became evenly spread over both my legs that i became aggitated and was just findin places to hide everythin n cover my cuts. I wish i would have got help sooner cos now im in this mess where now it has moved to my wrsts and its gettin deeper. I know it is scary and you dont want people to find out but if you get help now it will get easier and wen the time comes where you feel you want to punish yourself then you will know how to distract yourself and release that anger you have.

Good luck xxx

just tell someone and they will help