I have been self injuring for about a year. I started to do it because I was going through a bad time with my depression and anxiety. I am bi-polar also. I had been having feeling of wanting to injure for about a week before I actually did something. I took a tool and used it. It progressed from there. I eventually stopped in December 2011 when my medication was changed and I had been seeing a therapist. I was starting to feel better. I just relapsed 4 days ago because a few stressful things have happened in the past two weeks. But this time the injuring is much worse. I’m not sure how to help myself, so I was hoping I could get some feed back on how some of people helped themselves. Thank you for all your help.
One thing I read once that really helped me and has stuck with me ever since is this:
“Relapse is a part of recovery.”
Keeping this in mine, instead of giving up after a relapse, I put my mind to stopping self injury once again. I went four months, relapsed for about a month and a half, and now I am three months SI free. I don’t know if I’ll relapse again but I just remind myself that relapsing is not failure. Failure would be not trying again after you relapse.
Relapsing is a part of recovery. But you can only call it a relapse if you go back to stopping self injuring. There is hope. You just have to get back up again. It’s hard, but I believe that you can do it!
Hope this helped 🙂
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