Just wanted to say I have had a few skin graft operations for burns so I know the pain and the hassle.
Why do you not want the MBT therapy? It's a difficult therapy to undergo but I've met people who found it really beneficial. If it's not right for you, do you have any other options? Maybe your psych could refer you for specialist self harm therapy, if it is available. I think it's great that you have distractions you use, but would you be interested in exploring the reasons why you harm yourself?
With the doing your own dressings thing, it might be standard practice. I attend the Burns outpatient clinic once a fortnight and do the dressings myself inbetween. Are there any positives to doing your own dressings? For me, it is that I am not having to travel there every couple of days and that I can have a bath when I am changing my dressings.
I really hope you can manage to break this cycle of selfharm. xx
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