Originally Posted by
PassedExpectations
i also found throwing out my tools triggering. i mean, i certainly don't advise having them in a really prominent location, or carrying them with you, but throwing them out is often too much when you're still having many urges... maybe you could take a list of all the reasons that you don't want to harm, and put them wherever you keep your tools, so that you have to look at the list if you get close to harming...
stopping all at once may not be the route for you. maybe you could work on replacing some of your harming with something else. or you could decide that before you harm, you have to do at least 15 minutes of two different coping skills (for a total of a half hour)...