Ultimate Self-Injury Recovery Masterpost!
Dec. 8th, 2013 01:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shamelessly_mkppersephonesidekick:
shamelesslymkp:
persephonesidekick:
chauvinistsushi:
corvidaeon:
chooserecovery:
How to care for cuts
How to care for burns
Helping to calm down: 1, 2, 3
Alternatives to self-harm
Natural antidepressants
How to fade and cover scars
What to say when someone sees
Helpful websites
It’s cool to see a post that isn’t ‘don’t hurt yourself in the first place!!’ but is actually giving you geniune, helpful advice for recovery and caring for yourself
ooOOoOooooo
Does tagging this useful mean that I’m admitting I’m going to relapse again someday?
no, it says that this is a list of tools that you could have (or perhaps did) used when you were hurting and that you want to put those tools in the hands of anyone who might need them (possibly but not necessarily including your future self).
Thanks, I needed to hear that. I intellectually know it’s good to be prepared and it was definitely good to signal boost it. The thing I was angsting about was tagging it useful, because thats a tag I use to find links that are useful to me again. But I realize that even if I probably won’t ever need it (which to be honest is a bit optimistic) it’s still better to have it than not in case I do.
I just feel ashamed that it’s not “unthinkable.” Bad habits are supposed to become “unthinkable” or order to really stop. But I’m not sure that’s always possible or a good idea. It’s just kind of emotionally drilled into me.
And I guess I felt ashamed to be reminded that I was in the target audience for this. Meep.
Seriously thanks for reassuring me.
*u* i totally know what you mean, tho - i still feel ashamed to admit that i ever did hurt myself, both because a) i hurt myself and b) because i never really felt the addictiveness of it.
but sometimes you just need to hear someone else say the words. (ask kate, sometimes I urgently IM her asking her to tell me specific things like “you are not a failure” “yes this feeling will get better” etc.)
via:Tumblr http://shamelesslymkp.tumblr.com/post/69324220243
shamelesslymkp:
persephonesidekick:
chauvinistsushi:
corvidaeon:
chooserecovery:
How to care for cuts
How to care for burns
Helping to calm down: 1, 2, 3
Alternatives to self-harm
Natural antidepressants
How to fade and cover scars
What to say when someone sees
Helpful websites
It’s cool to see a post that isn’t ‘don’t hurt yourself in the first place!!’ but is actually giving you geniune, helpful advice for recovery and caring for yourself
ooOOoOooooo
Does tagging this useful mean that I’m admitting I’m going to relapse again someday?
no, it says that this is a list of tools that you could have (or perhaps did) used when you were hurting and that you want to put those tools in the hands of anyone who might need them (possibly but not necessarily including your future self).
Thanks, I needed to hear that. I intellectually know it’s good to be prepared and it was definitely good to signal boost it. The thing I was angsting about was tagging it useful, because thats a tag I use to find links that are useful to me again. But I realize that even if I probably won’t ever need it (which to be honest is a bit optimistic) it’s still better to have it than not in case I do.
I just feel ashamed that it’s not “unthinkable.” Bad habits are supposed to become “unthinkable” or order to really stop. But I’m not sure that’s always possible or a good idea. It’s just kind of emotionally drilled into me.
And I guess I felt ashamed to be reminded that I was in the target audience for this. Meep.
Seriously thanks for reassuring me.
*u* i totally know what you mean, tho - i still feel ashamed to admit that i ever did hurt myself, both because a) i hurt myself and b) because i never really felt the addictiveness of it.
but sometimes you just need to hear someone else say the words. (ask kate, sometimes I urgently IM her asking her to tell me specific things like “you are not a failure” “yes this feeling will get better” etc.)
via:Tumblr http://shamelesslymkp.tumblr.com/post/69324220243
