I Have Scars and Cuts That Tell a Story

When I was 12 I was in a horrible car accident. The car I was in was slammed from the side and we spun and hit a traffic light. The traffic light fell on my side of the car and shattered parts of my skull and shattered glass over my...

age 12: i carved half of a heart into my left hand because i wanted to love myself and have my father love me, but i lost the nerve so i didnt finish it.
age 15: things got bad. i went back to self injury. i started making lines up my...

I have at least one scar from every job I've ever had (and I've had a lot of jobs). Some are small, and some go all the way to the bone. I remember how and when I earned each one. In a way, they serve as little reminders of where i have...

for each cut i inflict on myself it was because of something that happened that day i have many scars and i wish i could stop but I can't, i think i might b depressed but i have no reason to be, i'm lost....

so i have over 345 scars on my body. im not proud of them but they tell my life story from the age of 13 to now. my mom and dad argued all the time because of my moms drug addictions. my mom would take her anger out on me. she would...

Each scar on my wrist was done for a reason. Some thanks to my dad and his "discipline". Others are from people at school the ones who say im just a freak and i should kill myself and do the world a favor. The rest are from me trying to...

I've been cutting myself for 41% of my life.

She paints a pretty picture
But her story has a twist
Her paintbrush was a razor

Her canvas was her wrist .
She paints a pretty picture
In a color that's blood red

While using her sharp paintbrush
She ends up finally dead
Her pretty...

I have exploded so many times in foster care and destroyed so much stuff cause of the pain I feel inside. I still hate myself for hurting people feelings and making them hate me. All I really wanted was friends, someone to notice me...

The feel of that blade on my skin
I slice it open,
I see the blood,
the world stops,
my anger subsides,
my stress is temporally alleviated,
I don't feel quite so alone,
My anxiety levels drop back down,
I feel almost normal,
I feel...

I self inflicted throughout my life and I have tried to kill my self several times.
I only self harmed after someone bullied me. Most are unotice able .
But when I was seriously bullied I would stab myself at a none lethal area or draw...

Sitting in hospital texting with one hand. A simple and common accident yet still annoying. I crushed my thumb between a log and the base plate. It was a gnarly piece of wood that slid and got me as the ram came down. My thumb hurts and...

I started cutting about three years ago when my mom first got sick,she had two major strokes im January of 2009.She now has brain damage and says what is on her mind no matter what it is.I've experienced her bad behavior and saying bad...

Please do not judge me. I am depressed, anorexic and bulimic, I cause self harm, and tried to vomit suicide since I was 9. I have been cutting since 2 months ago. Right now, I'm only 13, and there are tons of scars left behind. The...

I self inflicted throughout my life and I have tried to kill my self several times.
I only self harmed after someone bullied me. Most are unotice able .
But when I was seriously bullied I would stab myself at a none lethal area or draw...

The day my boyfriend kissed the scars I'd carried for years, I knew I'd marry him.  We've been together 15 years, and he still traces my scars with his fingers.  I spent years trying to hide them, now I know they aren't a...

I have made scars and cuts that tell a story. Most are self inflicted cuts from where I was the reason behind the scar. I have one scar under my chin where I cut opened by chin when I was pushed down a flight of stairs, I have one above...

I was at a public pool last week and I saw a woman with scars on her thighs, arms, and shoulders, they were clearly self harm scars. She wasn't hiding them at all and she didn't look the least bit embarrassed. Not only did I admire her...

I had an accident many years ago that left me paralyzed from the chest down, and with very limited use of my arms and hands. I have a scar that runs down the back of my neck where the surgeon had to fuse my vertebrae together. It starts...