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Savannah:
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This is Savannah:

Another of Savvy:

Savvy, my lil' one:

One of me:
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Washing machines
Electricity
Good friends
The coming of warmer weather
Keeping my case manager as my case manager even though she's switched agencies
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Possible triggery discussion
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I know I definitely alternate between methods of self harming... some are more harmful than others, and some are less. I do have my preferred methods, however, and that's generally what I stick to. Just because I do it, though, does not mean that everyone does, nor does it mean that everyone should try it!
I think that if I were you, I'd be very honest with myself and my therapist about why I was self-harming. There are reasons behind our responses, and self-harming is a response. Generally for me, there are intolerable feelings that come immediately before an episode of self-harming and over time, I've learned to stop the response of event --> feeling --> self harm. I still have the event --> feeling --> response cycle, but I've slowly begun to develop a better way to cope with intolerable feelings. A lot of my work was simply to learn with tolerating the feelings and the urges, and, on its own, the self harming has ebbed a bit.
In the short-term, maybe you can be a little kinder to yourself with a long bath or a getting lost in a good book or movie. Just to escape for a few seconds is wonderful and can work wonders for the soul.
I know today I am going to watch a couple episodes of my guilty pleasure -- MTV series "Teen Mom 2." (I know, it's horrible.) I think I will also have a couple Reese's peanut butter cups! If the mood so strikes her, I will also play with my kitty, Savannah. Just these three things, that I'm indulging in for no reason other than because I want to and because they're safe, emotionally healthy ways of coping makes it enough. And you don't have to pick something extravagant or expensive or complicated, you can do something simple and fun. Just don't hurt you.View Thread

Today I'm grateful for:
A humidifier
Cat food
For that matter, the cat that goes with the cat food.

Clean water
The time I have to keep my sprained ankle up to healView Thread

I'm so sorry you have to go through things like this. It may be such a rotten situation and it's really not fair, is it? But I think the moral of the story is that although we have disabilities (some of us physically, some of us emotionally or otherwise), I think we can't let our disabilities get in the way of our living our life to the fullest.
SB is right, we must find our lighted paths through the darkness. One way is to find people we admire who have it so hard (like Helen Keller) and know that they have come through it. They can be role models to us.
Have you talked to your regular doctor about this stuff that you're going through? That you can barely stay conscious and if there's anything they can do to help? Sometimes, the best things we can do is take it in little steps -- little goals, like to stay awake for an hour, then an hour and 15 minutes, then the next week an hour and a half at a time. Little steps are building blocks we may not realize are there to the bigger goals we have for ourselves.View Thread


Still-cold nights
Still-warm clothes
The couple of pounds I have lost...View Thread

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