Originally Posted by
Heidi Tiger
I don't think you need to feel guilty Carrie, after all you can't change what you have done and I think very many of us here (myself included) have ended up doing this at some time or another. I think rather than making people feel guilty we want to encourage them to think differently.
It's like what I find quite interesting is I always used to tell professionals "I want to kill myself by x" or "I'm going to self harm in Y fashion" and all they could adress was the risk. Whereas now I'm a lot more "I'm struggling and I'm feeling z emotion" and I get way more useful support now, by talking about and working through my emotions, rather than just talking about the physical urges.