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I have lost the ability to console people as well as I've got better.
how? surely as you have gotten better you are more understanding of people in similar situations. i'd've thought that would make it easier to console people.
right now i just feel like i need someone to tell me that they love me, and to hold me tight and not let go...
havent read all this, but read a few pages.
It is worrying how many people have depression.
There is a difference between feeling depressed and having clinical depression though.
I SI too:rolleyes:
Theres just so much to this illness that is impossible to explain and make anyone understand unless theyve been here.
why why why?
:eek2: Disease?!
Fair enough, if that's how you see it, just seemed like a strange way to put it.
Not really. It makes perfect sense to me.
Painless, it's really good that you don't want to become addicted, and it's really goopd that you can see that there is a way out, and it doesn't need to be like this. You don't need to find the way out by yourself, it's alright to need other people to help you.
I would highly recommend visiting a doctor or a counsellor at your school or college, should you have one there, and talking things through with them. It's something that you can get over, I've managed it and two years ago I was suicidal, but you do need other people to help you and it's good to recognise this and ask for it.
Instead of hinting at people noticing, you should try and grab the bull by the horns and seek help yourself. It is a very frightening and daunting prospect, but it's the road down which the way out lies.
why do you think it is a strange way to put it? how would you describe it?
That's fine if it makes perfect sense to you, it just isn't how I think of self-harm.
I don't know how I'd describe it to be honest but disease just seemed like a nasty way to put it, I don't mean to offend anyone.
dis·ease
n.
1. A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
2. A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
3. Obsolete. Lack of ease; trouble.
Ok, I retract whatever I said about it being a weird way to put it. It's a good way of describing self harm really, I'd just never really seen it that way.
i hate feeling like this and i hate feeling that in order to make myself feel slightly better that i need to attack myself with a razor blade.
I wish I could say something more helpful. Sorry.
thank you
think i shall go for a walk to clear my head. it just gets frustrating sometimes as its the only coping method that i know and i know that it isnt the best one to employ (if that makes sense)
If you want to hurt yourself hold an ice cube in the crook of your elbow, or dribble some candle wax on your arm (red wax is cathartic, I find).
It's what I do.
It's not something that should be done for shits n giggles, of course not.
The ice cube fucking hurts too, for the record.
If one has to hurt oneself, at least do it in a way that won't cause long-term damage.
Two months less scarring.
Think of the positives.
So you fell off the wagon?
Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and climb back on. Take the knock on the chin, and don't wallow in self pity and go on to do it again and again.
It's a very difficult addiction to break, we all fall off the wagon every so often. I have done, and I've been lucky to have not fallen off for two years since.
Work out what triggered it and deal with it. "Not being able to cope" is not a reason to hate oneself; losing hope is.
Everyone does.
It's better than any alternative. Death isn't a way out because I wouldn't be able to enjoy the lack of sorrow. I'd be dead.
Hm.
it doesnt sound stupid at all. and there is no need to apologize. everyone hits lows at some point in recovery, its normal.
i hope you feel a bit better now. if not then feel free to PM me
*hugs*
Piccolo - You sound very much like you need someone to talk to. Please talk to someone, anyone. Nothing you've said sounds stupid; just be careful, ok? Hope things are a little better now, take care.