This is actually very normal to feel. Sometimes when it comes to stopping at first, it can be very traumatic. The funny thing is that self harm is like any other habit... very easy to pick up but very hard to stop it. In a way, it's kinda like smoking cigarettes. At first, you have "withdraw symptoms" but after a while it starts becoming easier.
Your doctor will understand if you have relapses. The point is not to stop cold turkey and expect for things to stop there, but simply for you to make an effort to harm less or not at all. If you can go from every day to every other day or once a week, that is progress.... that actually can be considered "recovering". Recovering doesn't mean you wake up one day and you stop and end of the story... but rather you start finding ways to stop and find other coping methods to replace self harm.
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