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[sweetsoffy]

I best put up the answers for that thing I did ages ago I suppose :P Bolding the ones that apply :)

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[fbrobey]

Naww I've learnt a lot about you I didn't know :) congratulations on giving up the self harm btw, why did you start?

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[sweetsoffy]

Not sure if congratualations are in order yet, but hopefully they do apply in the long run :) I want them to which is the main thing!

Um..it sounds silly, but it took me a couple of years to realise i even self-harmed..because I would scratch my arms with my nails, but the marks were (almost) always gone by the morning. So I didn't think of it as self-harm, just as an out-pouring of emotion at that point in life. It meant I thought about it than whatever was troublign me at the time and no evidence by morning.
Course it then got a bit worse recentely, with general stress I think, but i recognise teh feeling now, i can sort fo guess when i'm going into that mood so i can haul myself away. Hopefully it will stay this way, but if it doesn't, it doesn't.

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[fbrobey]

You're right, scratching your arm is a less severe form of self harm, but self harm nevertheless. Recognising you have a problem and wanting it to stop is the key to it ending. You've begun to recognise how you feel when you start to feel overwhelmed, tell someone how you feel, share your problems with a close friend, your boyfriend or even your journal, whichever works best for you, rather than trying to gain people's attention visually with wounds or convincing yourself you're the one in control by hurting yourself, use the energy on talking things through, trust people, trust me that is the most controlled way of dealing with things there is.

I honestly wish you luck, sounds like you're well on track already though :)

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[sweetsoffy]

Yeah I did start sharing, a little while ago kinda hard to hide to your boyfriend tbh, but he hasn't done anything but been supportive. And you of course and whoever else reads it, I don't really mind.

I would actually panic if anyone found out without me telling them so I'm pretty sure that's a very good thing right now.

Thanks for helping and everything
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