i regret the reasons why i started more than the self harm itself and the scars are a record of how i was feeling then, when i look at them i cant pretend things didnt happen, cant minimise my reaction to what happened.
i never harmed myself really badly though, so that may make it easier. if i had my life over again and knew at that age what i know now i would like to think i'd choose differently.
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i regreted it when it was the beging of this year no i miss it to much to regret starting cuz i now know i have something i can do to help deal with my life at school and ppl that hurt me and stress of freinds . so yea i used to regret hurting my self but these days i dont
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Wow, what in interesting questions and a lot of varied responses.
I don't regret starting to SH. I regret the reason I started, but not the fact that I did. If I didn't SH I don't think I'd be here today.
As many have said SH has shaped me into the person I am today. I have a far better understanding of who I am and where I draw strength from. I also know who my true friends are, although only a handful of people know about my SH.
I regret having relapsed, after 3 years free. It's been difficult to stop again and a slow process to building back up my self esteem to a point where I don't get triggered.
Thanks for this post, it's a great insight into SH and maybe a thread someone could use to explain their views or base research into the issue.
Liz
I regret not getting help earlier, and I regret thinking nothing was wrong with it. But no, I don't regret starting. If I hadn't started, to be truthful, I probably wouldn't be here today. It was the only way I could cope at the time.
"Hate can't drive out hate. Only love can do that."
-Martin Luther King Jr.-
I regret it very much.. there is nothing I embrace or view as positive about it..
I started when I was around 7 or 8, and because I was so young I didn't know or think better than to do it in a place that wasn't so obvious.
Now I'm absolutely hideously scarred completely on the both of my wrists, they will always be like that, and I will always have to hide them.
I am disgusted with myself every time it even crosses my mind.
No... not really. Sometimes I regret the scars, for vain reasons. But that's about it.
The thing is... I don't hate self harm. I don't. I hate my depression. I hate my anxiety. I hate what it does to me. I hate that I was ever put into a position to start self harming.
But I don't hate self harm. I don't regret it. It's made me see life differently, and I've learned to value the things I have more. To have more empathy for people.
Personally, i don't regret starting, it's made me what i am today, changed me for the better, the scars are bad reminders but i can deal with that, I don't regret starting, but i do regret not being strong enough to stop after that first time.
I dont regret it. If I didnt do it I wouldnt be who I am now, so I dont regret anything. I'm not 100% happy with how I am, but this is me, so I accept that and try to better myself by learning frm what I've been through.
i don't regret it. i regret discovering some of the things i did because of it about me and the people who were close to me, but i don't regret starting.
no I don't regret it,going through five years of self harm has changed me and quitting has made me stronger. life is to short for regret. yeah at times I wished I didn't make that first cut but I look at it as a character molding experience.
you know what? if you don't like who I am..I don't see anything stopping you from moving on![b]
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