I do not regret starting. Although I hate self harm itself and want to stop, but self harm has allowed me to see out of my friends who truly cares (and doesn't leave me because they think my SI makes me a freak). Also, it has helped me make new friends (those who have found out and have comforted me).
Without self harm, I would not have some of my closest friends. Also, it has been a coping mechanism for many things.
Life:
it's all about perspective.
So when it isn't going well for you,
just try looking at it in a whole new way.
i dont regret starting either
its part of me and im the person i am now because of it and i like who i am
i have stopped now but i do have a few scars and that part i do regret
We've all been sorry, we've all been hurt
But how we survive, is what makes us who we are.
No, I don't regret starting as I think that I needed something to help me cope. Without it, I wonder if I would actually be here. I think I'd be more of a mess than I am now. I regret that my self-harming has just escalated into something more extreme and now I struggle to cope with it as well, and I regret the scars but I don't regret the action. It has kind of shaped my personality and made me who I am, even though I am well aware of the fact it should not be recommended and is actually detrimental and I have so many worries as to how it will impact my future.
I dont regret starting because id probably be more messed up than i am well thats if i was still here.i hate my self for self harming but i don't regret it its taught me to be stronger and to be proud of who i am.
I question it sometimes, like yesterday in Wetherspoons I had my arms uncovered and you should have seen the dirty look one of the staff gave me when she seen my wrist as I was handing her a glass back.
But overall, I don't regret it though.
I see that this is something that I should regret, but for some reason I simply can't.
"Tutto è bello..." - "Everything is beautiful..."
Nicola to Matteo, La meglio gioventù
yes i regret that i started and i know have scars on show,they remind me that i made it through a time of darkness and i never want to go back there.
''cover things over with pink and glitter makes things 'look'better...''
I try my best not to judge,But to look for the light in every one and the good...
No. It's almost six years since I started, and ten months since I stopped, but I've never regretted it. I honestly don't think I would have survived without it.
It doesn't matter where you come from; it matters where you go.
No-one gets remembered for the things they didn't do.
We won't all be here this time next year,
so while you can take a picture of us.
We're definitely going to hell,
but we'll have all the best stories to tell.
Yes i do regret it, because it's caused a lot of upset and hurt for those i love and care about. At the same time though if i hadn't of started i wonder how i would have dealt with things, would i have resorted to violence to relive stress? punching and breaking things? who knows, although it's not the best way to deal with emotions it's certainly helped, made me a lot more empathic to other peoples issues.
Nope, I don't regret it. It helped me through a time when I was very hopeless, and it's made me who I am today. I'm so much more compassionate and understanding towards people because I know how much it can hurt to go through things (not that I wasn't before, it's just opened my eyes that much wider) I've made friends that I will never lose because of it, and it made the strength between my best friend and I better (we both did it).
I used to regret doing it, but that was when I never thought I'd be able to stop. But now, I know I can stop. I have stopped. Harming myself got me through some bad times, and sometimes I still slip up. But my self harm won't be around forever.
Sometimes i regret it, when i go through stages when i feel really out of control i hate it and wish i never started it.
Other times i regret cutting on my arm because its really hard to hide and just wish i had done it more hidden like now.
And other times, i dont really regret it because as twisted as it is i like it and it helps me a lot, and sometimes i wonder what i would do with out it and i really dont care or think its a big deal that im doing it.
I guess it mainly depends on my mood, i feel really mixed about SH.
♥ .I'm going to fall like I don't need saving. ♥
...My smile's just the armour I built when I was alone...
There was some part of me that hurt so badly, that I wouldn't ever be able to forget it.
It faded but the memories could bring it back any second, keeping me in the moment.
It would never fully heal. I could never really be free. I could never really be fixed. Now I just have to work out how to live whilst being broken.
I feel like I'm dying.
In some ways no because I've met some amazing people through here, even my girlfriend, and they are actually decent friends who are there for me and will visit me and things when they are able (unlike my other 'school' friends) and will completely understand whatever I'm feeling and stuff. I have also learnt so much that I would never know if I never self harmed and I appreciate how people feel and things more.
And in some ways yes because I now have so much scar tissue on my arm that lidocane has pretty much no effect and I useually wind up needing stitches. Which then brings about the whole going to a & e thing too which can be more hassle that it's worth. Also because it's never fun to look at your own inside anatomy... and if I go around in shorts (that was not "planned" if you want to say) or short sleeves the chances are that people will give me some very strange looks or ask me very awkward questions, I mean how can you explain to a child that it's because you cut yourself? I must have also put my parents through a hell of alot and no parent wants their son or daughter to get so unhappy or depressed that they actively start destroying themselves.
Depends how you look at it reallly...
The world is just illusion always trying to change me.
You will find wonder wherever you can, and spread joy whenever you are able.
I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, divide within me. - Frankenstein.
Some days the answer would be yes and somedays the answer would be no. At the moment, I don't regret starting. At the moment, I still need it. At the moment I feel like It's the only thing that is truely mine, that won't leave me until I want it to. So I don't have a definate, final answer but, someday I hope to.
