about

I'm a qualified colour therapist and I'm doing a course in psychotherapy and councelling. i have the letters SNHS after my name which means i have a diploma from The School of Natual Health Sciences.
I have life experience in mental health, agoraphobia,bullying,parents divorce.


advice

I cut myself for the first time today. I'm afraid that cutting will become something that I do regularly. I need to figure out how to get over cutting, because i already feel like i'm a crazy person. pleaseee help!


oh and don't tell me to google. i did, and i read nearly all of the search results. reading some of them makes me want to cut even more.

i'd love to hear a response from a person who has gone through this.

I used to cut when i was in a deep pit of depression, apart from finding distractions such as watching your favourote dvd, reading magazines, doing puzzle books just to make yourself think about something else, and also keeping your hands busy with writing, typing ect, you also need safer ways to get your anger or frustration out or whatever it is that is making you cut.

For some people seeing the blood makes them feel better, others feel better from the pain, sometimes its a mixture of both like with myself.

So if it's the blood that makes you feel better then fake it. Put red paint on your wrists, or felt pen. I used some strawberry extracts from hand cream because the strawberry smudged and looked like blood on my wrists which did make me feel better, it also kept me distracted so i didnt feel the need to cut my self properly.

If the pain is what makes you feel better then use ice cubes on your wrists, it will sting and feel like your cutting but it wont actualy do any harm.

I got these tips from a top psychologist who was talking about self harm on a youth tv show, they really do work too.

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(Rating: 5) thanks a lot.
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