Dear____________.
I really get the sense that nobody is going to believe you. You are a cutter. You engage in self-injury by choice. You know that you have the power to stop.
Each and everyone of you are super duper nice people. You are really great. Just because you are surrounded with toxic people and toxic elements that is triggering you to want to harm yourself-please stop! It doesn't always have to be like that. You can pick up the phone and call a helpline if you are triggered. If you are in immediate danger, please call 911. I know it's hard, but it's the step to getting better and finally concuering this addiction.
Don't let anyone call you a liar. Don't let anyone call you names, or make claims that you are doing this for attention or trying to manipulate other people. This is something that really makes me angry! I know that this isn't true-and if it makes you feel any better, I have been called a liar, a %+#$!, and many nasty names that I dare not repeat. They don't know your whole story or your situation, so who are they to judge? The people that do just that are just scared. They are scared by those that do that because they don't know what to do, or how to help. You don't know they're story, either, and you know better than to judge them. You are so much better than they are in so many ways.
Don't let anyone or anything stop you. Please take the time to write a letter to yourself-it can be on good old fashioned paper, it can be on your computer that you keep in a seperate file, it can be in a journal or a blog, or even on a separate forum, it can be on this forum. The point is by writing a letter to yourself, you can be the only one to tell yourself otherwise.
It would be nice if we all had a little therapist sitting on our shoulders at all time, and a little cheerleader with (your favorite color) and (your second favorite color) pom-poms cheering you on, and helping you when you really need it the most. The therapist would say "don't listen to that" and the cheerleader would be encouraging you to go on when you simply can't.
If you can, get out there. Delete your myspace account, or other accounts if they are only causing you more harm than good. Eliminating a lot of the stress in your life can eliminate a lot of the triggers-and that, my friends, is very liberating. I know that deleting my myspace account was the step for me to take.
Getting help for your self-injury addiction is hard, but it can be done. There are support groups. I know that finding one and joining one is the right thing for me. Go to a therapist who works with cutters is also another thing to do. As hard as it to do, it can be done. I know that I'm living proof of this. Calling a helpline when I was in a moment of weakness really opened a whole new door for me.
I know that you may not even think about getting help, but please take it from someone who has been doing this for 14 years-getting help is just the one thing that you can do to help stop. There is support out there.
Love,
Evie Dee
I really get the sense that nobody is going to believe you. You are a cutter. You engage in self-injury by choice. You know that you have the power to stop.
Each and everyone of you are super duper nice people. You are really great. Just because you are surrounded with toxic people and toxic elements that is triggering you to want to harm yourself-please stop! It doesn't always have to be like that. You can pick up the phone and call a helpline if you are triggered. If you are in immediate danger, please call 911. I know it's hard, but it's the step to getting better and finally concuering this addiction.
Don't let anyone call you a liar. Don't let anyone call you names, or make claims that you are doing this for attention or trying to manipulate other people. This is something that really makes me angry! I know that this isn't true-and if it makes you feel any better, I have been called a liar, a %+#$!, and many nasty names that I dare not repeat. They don't know your whole story or your situation, so who are they to judge? The people that do just that are just scared. They are scared by those that do that because they don't know what to do, or how to help. You don't know they're story, either, and you know better than to judge them. You are so much better than they are in so many ways.
Don't let anyone or anything stop you. Please take the time to write a letter to yourself-it can be on good old fashioned paper, it can be on your computer that you keep in a seperate file, it can be in a journal or a blog, or even on a separate forum, it can be on this forum. The point is by writing a letter to yourself, you can be the only one to tell yourself otherwise.
It would be nice if we all had a little therapist sitting on our shoulders at all time, and a little cheerleader with (your favorite color) and (your second favorite color) pom-poms cheering you on, and helping you when you really need it the most. The therapist would say "don't listen to that" and the cheerleader would be encouraging you to go on when you simply can't.
If you can, get out there. Delete your myspace account, or other accounts if they are only causing you more harm than good. Eliminating a lot of the stress in your life can eliminate a lot of the triggers-and that, my friends, is very liberating. I know that deleting my myspace account was the step for me to take.
Getting help for your self-injury addiction is hard, but it can be done. There are support groups. I know that finding one and joining one is the right thing for me. Go to a therapist who works with cutters is also another thing to do. As hard as it to do, it can be done. I know that I'm living proof of this. Calling a helpline when I was in a moment of weakness really opened a whole new door for me.
I know that you may not even think about getting help, but please take it from someone who has been doing this for 14 years-getting help is just the one thing that you can do to help stop. There is support out there.
Love,
Evie Dee
