Recovery
 

No cuttng, thats the rule, I havent cut for nearly a year now, things have happened, ive changed but my body hasnt, my body still craves it. When life gets too much to handle my wrists itch and I feel my arms are burning. Its a strange feeling, my mind ends up detatching itself from the feeling, from my body, from everything. How long till this will go away?? Is it normal?? I am happy now so why does my body want this? im confused i thought happiness would make it go away! does this mean im not happy? does it mean im still depressed? i thought not but im confused now. Anyone else in recovery feel this way??

I've only been free for two months and i know exactly what you're talking about.

hun, first of all I want to say congratulations on almost a year thats fantastic!!

If you keep ignoring the urges, slowly they will go away, and you will not need to cut any more. keep going hun you're doing good


and also... would this be better off in general support & advice or SI disscussion?

Well done!! Ive been free just over a year n i dont get that but i do get a feeling like something pushing me to do it, but recently its started to go and when somethings upset me its not happened n it hasnt crossed my mind so id say try not to worry as i think itll go with time.

Thanks everyone for your words of encouragment!! Its good to know that it should eventually go away, things are ok now and the thing that has stopped me giving up is my little girl who was born 3rd february 08, I swore not to cut anymore half way through my pregnancy and it was so ****ing hard but I did it for her and was feeling like I was letting her down still craving it so you have made me feel better about that thanks all xxxx

u used it as a coping mechanism so when things get hard its onli gonna be natural for your body/mind to crave it. just keep being strong and ignore the urges. they will soon leave you xx

As time goes on it will ease and go. But it also good to be aware it may pop into head now and then (it did for me last night) But now as time passes I know it is not the way to go. I have the urge but not the need. If that makes sense.

And well done for the year! And congrates on your little girl :)

well done for a year thats fantastic!! recovery is hard, and i think these urges last different amount of times for everyone, but they will get easier as time passes. hang on in there hun, and keep going xxx

congrats for a year! that's super progress!
as said above, recovery is often hard, and we don't always feel it at first. it's like if you try to give up smoking, you can sometimes go days without one, but then after that, our body craves it as it as learnt that that's what it gets every so often, and it likes it. it's just our bodies way of saying, "why have you stopped giving me what i liked?"
but stay strong. you can do it. keep it going. take care xxx