Social Anxiety Support

Half_A_Person · 11-06-2009, 11:03 PM

I've been cutting myself since I was 11. I do it on and off. There will be weeks or months when I don't even think about self-injury and then there are times when I do it everyday for a week or two. Sometimes I hit and punch myself or furniture until I bruise or until I can't take the pain anymore.

rasberrykiwi · 11-07-2009, 02:46 PM

I used to, I think about two years ago, I would cut or scratch myself a lot, I would do it like everyday. And then at one point I was really motivated to stop and I did art therapy and it helped me a lot. I still get urges on rare occassions when my anxiety and depression, and also maybe self-hate, becomes way too overwhelming.

Dying note · 11-07-2009, 03:31 PM

I've gone back to it after several months. Now that I'm not in treatment for my anxiety any longer (no insurance for therapy or medication anymore and I'm completely broke), so I've been struggling for the last four/five months alone with not only social anxiety but depression. I hurt myself to keep from doing anything worse-if that makes a little sense...the pain shuts down my thoughts for a time.

Moon Calf · 11-09-2009, 07:30 PM

Lately, I've been pretending to hang myself. I guess I'm hoping I'll find the courage to actually go through with it. Have any of you ever done something like that?

rcapo89 · 11-09-2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Moon Calf

Lately, I've been pretending to hang myself. I guess I'm hoping I'll find the courage to actually go through with it. Have any of you ever done something like that?

Wow I have actually done this before. I remember tying my belt to the railing in my closet and wrapping the belt around my neck. However I hope you don't ever go through with it.

Half_A_Person · 11-09-2009, 11:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Moon Calf

Lately, I've been pretending to hang myself. I guess I'm hoping I'll find the courage to actually go through with it. Have any of you ever done something like that?

I've done this before too, not recently though and it was only a handful of times. I would use a belt and choke myself to see how far I could go. I guess I wanted to see if I had the guts to really do it or not, but I don't. I really hope you stop doing this, please be careful!

Indigo Flow · 11-10-2009, 12:50 AM

no, i have thoughts about it all the time though. i self harmed only once, not with a knife though and it left the biggest scab ever (eww) luckily there is no scar.

11-06-2009, 11:03 PM	#21 (permalink)
Half_A_Person Status: SAS Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: SF Bay Area Gender: Female Age: 17 Posts: 349	I've been cutting myself since I was 11. I do it on and off. There will be weeks or months when I don't even think about self-injury and then there are times when I do it everyday for a week or two. Sometimes I hit and punch myself or furniture until I bruise or until I can't take the pain anymore. __________________ "There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken."

11-10-2009, 12:50 AM	#27 (permalink)
Indigo Flow Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: London, England Gender: Female Age: 20 Posts: 258	no, i have thoughts about it all the time though. i self harmed only once, not with a knife though and it left the biggest scab ever (eww) luckily there is no scar. __________________ ...i could not Speak, and my eyes failed, i was neither Living nor dead, and i knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Flickr

11-07-2009, 02:46 PM	#22 (permalink)
rasberrykiwi Status: SAS Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Montreal Gender: Female Age: 23 Posts: 32	I used to, I think about two years ago, I would cut or scratch myself a lot, I would do it like everyday. And then at one point I was really motivated to stop and I did art therapy and it helped me a lot. I still get urges on rare occassions when my anxiety and depression, and also maybe self-hate, becomes way too overwhelming.

11-07-2009, 03:31 PM	#23 (permalink)
Dying note Status: SAS Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: U.S. Gender: Female Age: 20 Posts: 36	I've gone back to it after several months. Now that I'm not in treatment for my anxiety any longer (no insurance for therapy or medication anymore and I'm completely broke), so I've been struggling for the last four/five months alone with not only social anxiety but depression. I hurt myself to keep from doing anything worse-if that makes a little sense...the pain shuts down my thoughts for a time.

11-09-2009, 07:30 PM	#24 (permalink)
Moon Calf Status: SAS Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Age: 29 Posts: 117	Lately, I've been pretending to hang myself. I guess I'm hoping I'll find the courage to actually go through with it. Have any of you ever done something like that?