Posted by Dinah on January 6, 2007, at 10:14:31
In reply to does anyone else cut? (possible trigger), posted by youngaddict on January 5, 2007, at 19:58:28
I almost never do it any more, since I promised my therapist I wouldn't. Unlike my promise to him not to kill myself without giving him a chance to help me, which was a gift to him, this one was more an accidental promise given when I had done a bit more damage than I intended and scared myself.
But he's made it easier for me by taking me seriously when I say I'm upset. Sometimes my hurting myself was a communication when I thought no one understood how badly I was feeling. Sometimes it just resulted from when the anxiety or agitation got too strong and my whole body felt like an electrical field.
If you can raise the courage to tell your therapist how bad you feel, and to ask her to take you seriously, and explain that sometimes you feel you have no other way to communicate that, it may be as helpful to you as it was to me.
poster:Dinah
thread:719703
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