yeah ive writen a lot of words. i permanetly have **** scarred and i have love written a few times. on my stomach i have the words Live Love Burn Die. and i've carved names...none of which is a good idea. but it gives my si more meaning for me..it's twisted i know
yer i do this too, i always feel really stupid after like when my boyfriend see's because he will ask why i chose that word and i cant tell him because i dont really know.
<3 He took the blade from her hand and whispered gently in her ear " hold on and everything will be alright" <3
Cutting words into your skin is quite a common problem among people who self harm, and it seems that alot of us have done this to ourselves.
But I did want to remind everyone that RYL is a support site, and some of the posts in this thread where people are just listing the words they've cut into themselves, are starting to give this thread a bit of a 'show and tell' feel to it, which I think detracts from the supportive nature of the RYL community and are not really about offering support to the thread-starter.
I know nobody is doing this on purpose and its not any one person's fault, but I just wanted to post a reply to remind everyone to please be careful about their posts on this thread so that it doesnt turn into something where we are all comparing the cuts and words we've created in our skins, but that the thread maintains an atmosphere of support and advice-giving for Black Pearl.
I think we've quite definitely demonstrated on this thread that cutting words into the skin is not a unique problem amongst self harmers unfortunately, but now lets focus our replies on different strategies that could help a person who has this sort of a problem.
Once, when I was particularly bad, I inscribed (?) dirty into my underarm.
Not my proudest moment and I do regret it, but it faded in time and is now (un) fortunately covered by other scars :(
Perhaps, when you have this urge, you could inscribe it elsewhere, a soap, orange peel skin, an apple? I tried the orange peel once, and although not the same effect, it surprisingly cuts like skin and you smell nice afterwards!
Take care and hope you're alright :)
Last edited by NitNat : 10-12-2007 at 07:19 AM.
Reason: Pressed enter too soon ^^
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