When I first decided enough was enough I was looking in a mirror at my mangled arms and realised "This isn't how a 15 year old should be living" You deserve to be living without self-harm, I know I'm only 3 months free. But darling, it's honestly easier without self-harm!
http://www.recoveryourlife.com/forum...ad.php?t=42820
It's only a short and simple list of "Things I don't miss about self-harm" But I'm serious you'll see how much you deserve a life without all this *****.
If you're going for
forever then I suggest you dispose of your sharps. You'll never know how many times I've stayed free because my local pharmacy has closed and I can't get any razors, or I don't have any money, or I'm at school etc. etc.
Do it! Do it now!
Tell people you're giving it up
for good. You'll loose the feeling that you can hide it and nobody will have to know. If you cut they'll know and you'll have upset them majorly. My boyfriend's crying, yelling when I slipped up has kept me cut free for at least three months. Since then I've intended to never cut myself again.
Tell yourself that
you'll never slip up. I did, and of course, I slipped up.
I know here they tell you that slipping up is very natural. **** that.
Cutting yourself is wrong. It's may be a coping mechanism, but it'll be the
only one that'll end up getting you
arrested or
commited.
It's wrong. The sooner you realise that
nothing about cutting is natural, the sooner you'll realise you need to stop it.
Buy scar reduction patches. They're like bandages which cost £20.00 you can't cut yourself with them on and you won't rip them off to hurt yourself because they cost so much. Also how people look at you on the street will remind you how normal people view self-harmers. They see it as an act only an insane person would commit. Not something you'd like to be remembered for really. It's a good reason to stop.
I know some of my suggestions may seem a bit nazi-like. But believe me if you make a line, self-harm is bad, recovery will be easier.
And do you have a diary, usually when I'm burdened I'll write in my diary and I'll write so much I'll just be too tired to do anything. Exercise, run around and around. Then sleep :)
Good luck. Talk to me anytime!