The Why Not to Start SI'ing Again List.

[CoffinNail]

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Originally Posted by xxcaseymareexx

Ditto. You can't be a therapist and go home at night and cut.

-So my parents don't have to ask to see my arms every time I cry
-So that I can get more of those "Thank god you didn't cut" hugs.
-So that I'm not "the cutter" at school.
-So that when I swim in the ocean my arms don't burn.
-So that I can say "I'm better"
-So that I can feel happy about my wrists, not jealous about others.
-So that when people say something about suicide I don't feel that it's directed towards me.

And I like the restoring the cats reputation one. I've actually said "My cat's evil, I don't get why she does that!", and then my friend meets my cuddly cat and is like wtf?

I agree with everything you said.

-So for once in my life, I can say "I'm ok" and really mean it.
-So I don't have to live with the guilt and shame anymore.

[~KemicalRain~]

so i can see the world in all of its glory not through paranoid eyes

so i dont spend lots of money on medical supplies

so i dont have to blame that damn cactus

so i can laugh with my gf

so i can make sure my kids (when i have them) are happy

so i can say i am okay and truely feel it in my heart

and to have the glint and sparkle back in my eye

[Absi]

Not to be always thinking....'can someone see them@

[Johanna80]

- not to be a bad example for my neices (there 16 and 14 - and they know...)
- to make mom stop worry
- not to scare people i want to be friends with
- to get a boyfriend

[*unlovedmonkey*]

• To be more me and not a pretender
• Be Less paranoid
  
  

• [Why this not a sticky? lol]

[Nymphetamine]

- to avoid the disappointment people will have in me
- to avoid wandering round in long sleeves in the summer
- so I'm not wandering round and someone accidentally brushes a burn as they walk past and I'm like "Ow - *bite tongue*"

[.ghost.]

These have probably been mentioned but:

• So people don't ask why you flinch when your arms are touched.
• So you can help other people who SI/are recovering.
• So you're not paranoid about people finding your 'tools'.
• To avoid all the awkward questions
• So you don't spend ages trying to wash blood stains off your clothes.
• Because nobody deserves to do that to themselves...

[broken_up_inside]

Awww i like these threads. Just a few personal things for me that have got me down recently....

So i can be a damn good mental health nurse
So i can wake up in the morning and not have to plan what im wearing
So i can play fight with my bf without ending up in agony
So i can say im happy and truely mean it

:)

[.ghost.]

And another one, so you don't feel so trapped by it. I hate that I can't get away from it.

[TheSuffererComplex]

To stop lying
To be able to wear my muscle shirt around without having a guilty feeling
To stand proudly that I can live with myself without more scars
That my best friend won't feel that he can't playfully rip on me without triggering me.
So that I won't be lying to my soon-to-be grlfriend every waking moment of our reltionship.
So that I can have the confidence that I can do ANYTHING.

[Snow White.]

- So I can smile and feel proud of myself.
- So I can inspire and support other people.

[e.taylor]

probs been said but

-so when i say im fine i will actually mean it
-people wil stop saying "arent you hot in long sleeves?"
-so i can look the people i love in the eye
-so i can stop wasting peoples time
-and THE GOD DAMN ITCHING!!!

[-Shae-Lynn*]

*So that I'm not afraid to be spotted
*So that I never have to miss another training session
*Because all of this hurts the people I love
*Because in July I'm going to be working in the NICU of the best pediatric hospital and I can't have new scars.
*Because I don't want MY kids to ask about mommy's new scars (in 10 years when I actually have kids)
* Because of the looks I get when people first see them.

*Because we are all so strong and we really don't need this. As much as we think we do, and as hard as it is, we can ALL recover.
*Because once we recover, no one will ever be able to take that away from us.
*Because I want one day to look back on this, and have it be a distant memory.

[Stellata]

So that I can learn to feel safe with all kinds of feelings, and so be much more stable and calm.

[fadesthesun]

Personally - so I can stop worrying my mother. She's the most important person in the world to me and I'm sick of putting her through my ****.

[_plastic]

*Because it's not healthy to cut

[Psyke]

- So you can define cutting as something you DID not as who you are.

[eeyores friend]

so I can get contact back with my little boy

[-Rainbow-]

- to stop making my boyfriend confused about why i do it
- to stop putting my boyfriend through knowing i am so unhappy
- to make my boyfriend proud.
he is all i have.

[TheSuffererComplex]

So I don't have to try to explain that i'm a cutter some day to my girlfriend.

So my friends don't have to worry if today i'm going to hurt myself so bad I end up need stiches