So I remembered something I read on V2 about using paperclips to monitor your progress. I seemed to suck at remembering how long I'd gone and how far I'd come and I'd lose site if I felt triggered so..... For every day I was free I added a paperclip to a chain and slowly watched my recovery grow before my very eyes. I would recommend this method as I found that looking at it gave me a sense of achievement and prevented a lot of slip ups which I think would have happened if I didn't have the chain in sight.
I thought I'd share with you my chain so far. I've just made it over 3 months:
Here's my chain (I had to add the dates to the certain clips because I suck at counting days).
I also thought I would wear my chain to emphasise the style and colours
And because I just made it 3 months.... I made the chain into a '3' shape on my bed :D
Perhaps this method will help some other people keep on track :)
Thanks for reading :D:D
Sophie.x
Soon... Now will be then...Today will be yesterday... Present will be past...And thought will be memory... So...Live for the future! Make your future how you want it!
Not sure about what I'd do if I self harmed. I think that I just wouldn't add one so I don't make such a big deal of slipping up... I mean slip ups are bound to happen and I guess the key is to not let it ruin the recovery.
Sophie.x
Soon... Now will be then...Today will be yesterday... Present will be past...And thought will be memory... So...Live for the future! Make your future how you want it!
That's a really good idea! I know it's always helped me to have something visual to remind me how much I would be 'losing' by self-harming, paper clip chain is a great way of doing it!
Congrats on 3 months as well, that's fantastic. :)
7th July 2007
Hope is the feeling you have, that the feeling you have isn't permanent. (Jean Kerr)
this is such a great idea !
i am SOOO going to do this.
"They say time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessons, but it is never gone." - Rose Kennedy
WOW awesome idea and great acheivement!!!
I have a sticker chart - yep like a little kiddie one!
As a little kid you believed in fairytales,
that fantasy of what your life would be: white dress; prince charming who would carry you away to a castle on a hill.
You closed your eyes and had complete and utter faith.
Eventually you grow up. One day you open your eyes and the fairy tale disappears.
But the thing is, it's hard to let go of that fairytale entirely because almost everyone has that smallest bit of hope, of faith,
that one day they will open their eyes and it will come true.
