Part of me regrets starting but it has helped me through so much. i cant live without it. i dont think i'd be here if i didnt cut
"This girl's seen a lot of pain but this girls gunna smile again, she knows that a flower grows everytime
It rains and this girls got a lot of dreams, she knows that tommorrow aint what it seems, she might not solve a mystery tonight...
But this girls gunna be alright"
To be completely honest, I do. SH is the one and only thing I've ever regretted in my life. It's caused me misery, stressed relationships with friends, lost my mothers trust in my for years, and was overall unhealthy. Even though I went 3 years without SH, I still struggled with it every day, and it scared me when I relapsed a few days ago. My life would have been simpler with a different coping mechanism.
I do regret it. If I had known when I started what pain, stress, and mistrust this would cause, I would have given anything to have never started this. I will have to deal with the repercussions of my choices for the rest of my life, which I regret.
One thing is sure-
we have to do something.
We have to do the best
we know at the moment.
If it doesn't turn out right,
we can modify it as we go along.
-FDR
I do and I don't. I regret not having a better coping method, but sometimes I think it stopped me from causing myself from even more harm. And when I really needed it, it got me through terrible things. It's confusing. =S
No and yes.
I don't regret it, because it has halped me many times.
I do regret it, because now I lie all the time and my entire life seens to be about hiding SH.
You survived the abuse.
You're gonna survive the recovery.
At the time I didn't regret starting I was feeling much better cutting was the only thing that kept me from actually killing myself if i never wouldn't have started cutting i would have killed myself by now.
***************DISCLAIMER*******************
I am in no way encouraging Self Harm. I do think that if you are in crisis you should seek professional help.
This is a sort of tough question. In some ways, I regret it because it is now so hard to stop. But really, I think it's been the thing that's kept me here for the past couple of years. It's sick, but I can't say I really regret it.
"God take me, because I hate me" -Underoath
We are male and female. We are artists, athletes, and students. We have depression, PTSD, eating disorders, bipolar disorder, or maybe no diagnosis at all. Some of us were abused, some not. We come from all walks of life and can be any age. We are every race or religion that you can think of. Our common link is this: We are in pain. We self-injure. And we are not freaks.
never. some day i will be able to help a person who is in the position i am now. that kind of makes it worth is thinking i will be better in the end.(alive)
I do regret it. If I had known when I started what pain, stress, and mistrust this would cause, I would have given anything to have never started this. I will have to deal with the repercussions of my choices for the rest of my life, which I regret.
I do not regret starting. But all the scars all over my body make me feel guilty that I hide the pain from others. I hate seeing the ones around me sad and hurt because I do this. I hate hiding the marks, the guilt, the pain, the tears, but... this insane act is what keeps my sanity sometimes! Though, this method of relief always leaves me violently reacting (not really though, just a line in this poem I wrote).
I really regret starting. It's not so much because of the scars, but because it's so difficult to get over it. For over two years, I've been almost clean, but I keep slipping up with little things.
When I'm sad or upset, I to hurt myself.
Other people just curl up with a cup of tea or a bowl of ice cream, call their best friend, or just cry. I have to deal with the urges in addition to feeling upset, and I don't think it will change for a long time, if ever.
I'm not sure.
Yes, because it sent me on a huge downward sprial, and now I'm finding it really hard to stop, and I'll have to live with the scars for a long time.
But at the same time, no. Honestly, I probably would have killed myself by now if I hadn't turned to self harm instead. Sure, it wasn't the best thing to do, but it's better than ending up dead.
Also, I've met some amazing people through support sites, and I don't know what I'd do without them. I can understand a lot of things that other people can't because of my self harm. Most people make assumptions about what's going on in other people's lives, but I don't. No one knew about what I was going through, and I don't know what other people are going through, so who am I to make assumptions? Also, I can appreciate people's problems. Sometimes, I hear people say, "just snap out of it, and get over it." I know that a lot of the time, it just isn't that simple. I wouldn't know that if I hadn't started hurting myself.
And one day, when I do manage to stop (*crosses fingers*), I'll be a much stronger person.
