how are you beating self harm?

[hocus pocus]

A few days ago I walked several miles. Lately I've been watching TV, enjoying fresh air, and trying to focus more on self-care.

[NeuroBeautiful]

I played neopets, prepared breakfast for me and everyone else at home today. Yesterday I went to TJ Maxx with my father.

New level today:

[contaigous-misery]

talking online and talking online,

[NeuroBeautiful]

Wrote a poem

[beautiful_mystery]

I tried to focus in homework

[hocus pocus]

Focusing on schoolwork, sleeping, and watching movies.

[beautiful_mystery]

I pretended I was cuddling with my boyfriend.

[NeuroBeautiful]

I made an artwork thing.

Hanging out with my boyfriend.

[NeuroBeautiful]

Spending time with my lovely cat <3 been on the silly/goofy side today because I know I have melancholy and despair lurking in the shadows. I played chess and sorts wrote a poem but it isn't complete.
Reread harry potter. Lol!

Sent my Jewish family and friends a happy holidays greeting card

[LEliz]

I do the classic rubber band on my wrist thing. I also have a little chart that I color in one square of every day I don't hurt myself. If I can get a whole year of them, in a row, I'm going to let myself get another tattoo. I haven't had a really strong desire to do it since I started keeping track of it like that (it's only been, like, a week) but hopefully it will work even when I really, really want to do it too.

[hocus pocus]

This weekend I took naps, watched another movie, played card games, and cleaned around the house.

[beautiful_mystery]

I cuddled my stuffed bunny

[Tabitha04]

I dealt with self-injury as a teenager and it was very difficult to stop. One thing that helped me was getting a calendar, and every day I went without injuring, I put a smiley face sticker on that day. Soon there were so many smiley faces on the calendar, it gave me motivation to stop.

[Philomath]

Originally Posted by Tabitha04

I dealt with self-injury as a teenager and it was very difficult to stop. One thing that helped me was getting a calendar, and every day I went without injuring, I put a smiley face sticker on that day. Soon there were so many smiley faces on the calendar, it gave me motivation to stop.

Hey Tabitha!
Welcome to TeenHelp!
I'm glad that worked for you.

For me:
-Do schoolwork.
-Play with my dog.
-Watch shows.
-Read.
-Talk to family or friends.
-Remind myself that my body is God's temple and my injuring hurts not only me but others and God.

[hocus pocus]

I sat in bed and started a new book instead.

[NeuroBeautiful]

today was a long day spent out of my room from 11:30am-9:30pm. I made sure to empty out my purse of any blades I had in there before I left this morning. Right now I'm pretty exhausted so I'm not gonna do it anytime soon. I don't think at least.

I walked a whole lot around the city.
Went into different stores and shops. Got my nails done at Sephora they let you try it on for free. But I have no idea how to put on makeup so I stuck to nail polish. Painting my nails helps me with my skin picking problem.

Spent time with my sister at the park

Went to the support group

Waited for my other sister in the train station for over an hour but we sorted it out when we got home. It was a long story.

Will be going to sleep soon.

[TheAtomicBlade]

Talking to my mates
Listening to Music
Studying
Working out

[NeuroBeautiful]

I shared my two recent poems with a crisis line's email service that I've been having exchanges with.

Today I stayed a little longer at the counseling center. It is a community center so there was a few groups going on. One was called "skittlez" and is an lgbtq group. I saw my friend from college who now works here as an intake counselor <3 and was sitting in on the group. We listed stereotypes and then disputed each one and reworded them. Then dinner was served (only ate the salad but still better than nothing as I haven't been eating much) and I usually don't eat there but I was hungry and remembered HALT and didn't feel like going home right away because I knew I might SH if I did

[hocus pocus]

A few days ago I did some lawn work, and I also went on the swings for a while. I've been listening to music, did some cleaning last night. Also wrote a poem. Planning to do more cleaning and maybe some assignments today.

[NeuroBeautiful]

Spoke to a crisis hotline last night. Tried to contsct them again and tried this other one i use but both her not available. So i layed in bed and tried to convince myself that this wasnt happrning as a punishment. That im not bad. That theres just something up with the chatlines not woroing properoy and the phone hotlines are just busy. Wrote a blog post last night. Wrote a poem this morning. Spending time on teen help.keeping in mind thatmy goal is one month SH free and when I get to one month I make the goal three months and I really want to make it this time.

[NeuroBeautiful]

I'm going to the library to pickup 2 books that I requested. I'm going to walk there and back so that I'm outside for longer. And guess what? One of the books is Unwind! So I can start reading for the TH book club ^-^

[NeuroBeautiful]

Wrote a silly poem. May add drawings to it

[hocus pocus]

Cleaned, cooked, and took a walk instead. Probably going to take another walk and maybe watch a movie or something later.

[NeuroBeautiful]

reading Unwind, wrote a poem early this morning, browsing the internet, hanging out with my furry friend

[NeuroBeautiful]

Posted a poem
Prepared lunch for my family
Hand washed my clothes and hung them up on the clothesline

I'm going to take a shower today
Make a list of something for therapy
Call the job training
Go to therapy
Go to the performance
The performance is in the evening so that should lead me to going to sleep when I come home.
I got a new blade today but I hid it out of sight.

[hocus pocus]

I helped a neighbor with something and I sat by a campfire for a while.

[Nerdy&Struggling141]

Henna tattoo my left hand, just spontaneous patterns till I've had enough.

[hocus pocus]

I went for a drive, held my pets, and watched YouTube videos.

[Sophrosyne]

I watched youtube videos and these past few days I've been doing jigsaw puzzles.

[hocus pocus]

I did some assignments, talked to my therapist, cleaned around the house, and went online for a while.

[hocus pocus]

I've been doing a lot of reading recently.

[Lionheart]

Remind myself of how far I've come and that it's not worth it. Gonna continue writing my story and sew a bit and if it still doesn't go away I'll draw patterns with sentenced oil on myself

[hocus pocus]

I have been watching Halloween movies.

[Sophrosyne]

Drawing where I want to SH and writing positive words.

[Lionheart]

Playing crush crush

[NeuroBeautiful]

went to my former college (or whatever you call a college that you graduate from)
and hanging out there till the urges pass. Writing up a blog post too.

[Tigereyes]

Keeping myself busy because I don't have the energy to practice guitar, which is what usually works for me

[hocus pocus]

I have been reading and babysitting.

[hocus pocus]

Yesterday I reorganized my closet and got rid of some things. Today I am planning on cleaning my room some more, reading, and doing some class stuff maybe.