I Used to Self Harm

So i have been in recovery for a year and clean for 4 months. i have so many tattoos. well to most people they would call them scares. but to me there tattoos of my past. ugly but i dont regret any of them!!!! although i am not proud of...

alot of people dont understand it, most choose not to. but believe it or not, 1 in 10 of us do/have/will self harm, and thats the sad truth. The majority of people who self harm are young girls aged 13-17. Most of them suffer in silence...

At the age of 16, I began to self harm. This was about 6 months after I started feeling suicidal. I continued cutting for a little over a year, and tried to give up many times. My parents kicked up a big stink, and there were a lot of...

The only reason I created this account was because I wanted this story to get out and be heard.

I don't want to go into great detail about my life story or everything that has happened to me, but the events in my life lead to self...

Things are getting to me a lot lately, I'm not coping well and the urges are back.
Though controllable, they're definitely not needed. I made myself a promise, I'm stupidly close to breaking that promise.

I don't know what to do or who...

For as long as I can remember I've picked and prodded my cuticles deliberately until they bled, or even got swollen and infected, so that was the first steps towards self harm, I guess. When I was seventeen I cut myself for the first...

I have scars and burns all up my left arm as I used to loathe myself. I used to get frustrated with myself for suffering with depression and anxiety so much that the only release was to cut my arm open with a razor blade or burn myself...

I am scared! Scared of everything. I am scared of everybody, everything and every place. I am scared of today, tomorrow and yesterday! I am scared of life. I am scared of death. Scared! I am not paranoid, I am not crazy, I am not sick...

It was high school. I had just transferred out of a Catholic school and into a public school because I hated the rules and I hated how the people there made me feel about my liberal attitudes. I had suffered from Seasonal Affective...

I have the urge to cut again.

It's almost been two years since I last cut. I just recently threw away all my razors too.

But..things have been hard lately. I've been thinking about it a lot and I feel like I need to.

My promises...

I sort of wanted to put this story on here somewhere, as a reminder of the person I was and the horrible things I did ._.
My story never began with a bad family because I had the most amazing family, but they never knew the sadness I...

I just threw away my glass shards. After three years, I am finally done with self-harm. Never again. Goodbye and good riddance. I am strong. I am stable.

When I started on the long road to end my relationship with cutting, I did a lot of research. I found out most people that SI are more intelligent than average, more educated. Their wounds are cries- not cries out, but cries. Tears that...

I was a messed up kid. I thought a blade would make it all go away, make me feel something. I now can't wear short sleeves without feeling very self conscious. If I could go back in time and stop my 14 year old self from doing it, I...

My name is The Real Woman, and I last self harmed on July 2nd 2009. Tonight I face a battle and I will win....but it is hard. I am worthy, I am strong, but the temptation calls.
Let's all be strong together....so we do not fall into...

I cut for the first time when i was 13. I came home from school one day, ready to commit suicide, but in my desperation to find a way to somehow keep living, i tried cutting as a last effort. And it worked. I never did it much at first...

So I am 21 years old and finally I think it's time for me to share my story and hopefully I can help you young ones to seek help.... The word seek help can be very scary because you don't want to tell people as you feel judge and maybe...

There's no feeling better than having overcome self harm. The satisfaction of having fought and won against something so hard gives me courage everyday.