As a child, I wasn't given a whole lot of choices ( Read more... )

I wish I could say that I was handling things better, but I'm not. Maybe it's hormonal, maybe it's stress, but look at me wrong these days, and that brings a deluge of tears ( Read more... )

There are only three people in the world with superior memory; a rare condition wherein the person can literally tell you exactly what they were doing, what was going on, what the weather was like, etc. almost every single day of their life. http ( Read more... )

There are many lies self-injurers tell themselves. I know them well because I used to say them and believe them. But they are lies. And I think once I was confronted with the lies I believed, I was forced to fully face what I was doing, who I was hurting (and it was more than just myself) and what I thought would happen if I gave myself permission ( Read more... )

Two years ago, a woman entered her boyfriend's bathroom and never came out. Yesterday, fearing something was wrong with his girlfriend, a man called 911 and asked for help. By the time police arrived, they found a woman who had been sitting in the toilet for so long, her skin had permanently adhered itself to the seat. In order to remove her from ( Read more... )

The holidays are supposed to be about family, good food and fellowship with friends. But for me, the holidays were always too painful to focus on anything but getting through them with my sanity in tact. Believe it or not, self-injury allowed me to do that ( Read more... )