Do you regret ever starting..?
 

I dont regret Self-harming at all, and thought mayybe its a bit weird cos of all the mess i get in.. but does anyone else not regret it... or yes?

Honestly? I don't... I can't even, like, wish it never happened. It just kind of did, so I deal with it. Can't say if that's a good thing or not, though. ^^;

I said other because sometimes I do just because of the scars, but I don't because if I hadn't then I wouldn't be here and wouldn't have found some of the greatest friends ever.

Nic
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No.

That might sound really stupid, but a lot of good things have come from doing so. Without SIing, I probably just would have exploded...or used drugs or some other destructive alternative. And a part of me still thinks that I deserved all that pain.

I found RYL, met a HUGE load of fantastic people. RYL not only introduced me to new people, but I've learnt a lot of things about myself, others, mental illness...just, craploads the past 3 years. And I've grown as RYL has.

I like my scars. They tell a story. I have days where I get awkward about them, a fear of people questioning them, and yeah I have my days where I regret them or regret wearing a t-shirt because someone might question the scars... But **** happens.

Over all...a lot of good has come from self-harming.

i dont regret starting but i do regret how out of hand i let it get~!!!~

I said no for similar[ish] reasons I guess. In the end it's made me the person I am today whatever, and at the moment i'm content with that. It's made me more understanding/less quick to judge etc, or at least it's opened my eyes more than they were. I duno. I've also met some of my best friends from here and other sites just through the connection of that when it's a secret to everyone in the "real world" but you can talk just about anything with them.
It also back in the day made me closer friends with a couple of people, just because they reassured me they were there.
Basically no. Mhhm.x

No, I don't think so. It helped me and I wouldn't be the person I am today without it. Going through recovery has made me discover so many things about myself and I've learned a lot from things just connected to SI. Its part of me, and I can't regret it, no.

No, if I hadn't started I wouldn't be who I am today, I have a lot more understanding of what people go through and I never ever judge anyone before I know them now. Also some of my best friends are from here and if I hadn't started I wouldn't have met them. So yeah I don't have any regrets, it's made me who I am

I try not to regret anything, life is too short to be dwelling on what you shouldn't have done. Instead you should look to what you can do in the future and how you can change things for the better.

On the other side of the coin, I think that if I'd never started maybe life would be a bit easier and I know I wouldn't have to cover up as much as I do now.
Then again I might have just killed myself.

So no, no regrets, but maybe things would have been better if I didn't.

I dont regret ever starting at all. If i never would have started then I most likely wouldn't understand why someone I know would do that. I probably understand how she feels since I do the same thing. Also since me and my friend both do it we grew closer and more trustworthy towards eachother so in a way i'm glad I started.

Other. I regret that this isn't something I want to be doing for my entire life and that I can't stop. I regret the burden I feel like it puts on people who know, I regret that I have to pretend to the people I love. I don't regret everything I've learnt about myself and the people around me. I don't regret that I think I can read people better than I could. I don't regret that it's saved me from ending everything.
So yeah, I'm a mix. :)

Yes. All the time.

If I'd managed to keep it small, and not obvious/stuck to a different place, I possibly wouldn't regret it so much. Sometimes I feel physically sick when I think about it.

If I'd never self harmed, I wouldn't have found RYL and made all the new friends I did. It's given me a huge other perspective on life and people in general. I wouldn't be the person I am today, and while I don't like that person 100%, I do like some aspects of me. So no, I'll never regret it totally.

i said yes, i have lost lots of friends to self harm, and the ones i do have i feel they get fed up with me. I feel like a burden and a failure, but I'm still addicted. I recently went 2months without cutting, the longest I have ever been, but now I'm back into it and can't even imagine recovering at the moment. People think I'm an attention seeker etc because of self harm and judge me because of it. I just wish i never started, I started so young but yet I'm still doing it. Sorry if this offends anyone, but its how i feel xx

I had to think about it, but I'd say no. I feel like it keeps me in line. However, I do wish I hadn't let my family find out because that has caused a lot of worry to them.

I looked down at my arms and I automatically thought yes, because they make me feel ugly but I step back and look over the past couple of years and I realize I have no regrets over my cutting. If I didn't have it as a vice I would not have survived, I know I would have killed myself. I've already had four attempts and if I didn't cut every time I needed to I would have been bursting at the seams and so much more readily headed straight to the drugs and alcohol. So infact, I'm incredibly thankful for cutting, it saved me when the situation exceeded my recourses for coping.

I said no...

Why regret things when you can move onwards and upwards?

i dont regret...all the problems i have had in the last 10 years...it has helped me cope...i regret every scar for a while but then...they all mean a part of my life!!!

I chose other option.

When i first started i couldn't even admit to myself i was a self harmer, i just cut every now and then, and i didn't think i was a SH'er, now i'm doing it up to 5 times a day.. So yea, i am a self harmer, and my arms are a scarred mess, but i don't know, i don't regret it as at the moment, cutting myself feels good, it takes away my pain, but i hate being scarred, i'm unsure, i have mixed feelings.

Part of me does, part doesn't.

It got me very close to people I love, its helped me grow up more and understand my life.
It also wasted years of my life which I regret terribly.