Help for Cutting

How can i help a friend with cutting?

• Ask about it-Friends with cutting problems are often glad to be able to talk about it. If you bring it up and this person isn't self-injuring it won't start just because you said something about it.
• Offer options but don't do. If someone's using cutting or some other kind of self-injury as a way to feel in control, it won't help if you try to take control. Helping someone see ways to get help-like talking to a parent, teacher, school counselor or mental health professional-may be the best thing you can do
• Seek support. Knowing a friend is going through this can be frightening and stressful consider telling a teacher or someone else you trust. And remember even if you don't want to share your friends's secret, you can still talk to a mental health professional about how it is affecting you.

Remember you're not responsible for ending your friends self-abuse. You can't force someone to stop or to get help from a professional. What you can do always, is keep being a good friend.

How can i help myself?

• Talk to someone you trust. Maybe its a parent or a good friend or a school counselor. Tell them you're cutting yourself, you want to stop. Ask them to help you find help. Know that you may get some tough reactions like denial or sadness or anger, but that will pass. If you're not comfortable with that, cotact a local mental health group or a hotline.
• Get help. Cutting isn't something to deal with on your own. There are therapists and support groups who can help you work through what makes you cut. Even if you're nervous about getting help NOW is the best time to do it. If you wait, the problem will only get bigger and harder to hide. And remember, you can stop cutting.

ya know i type all this up about get help and i've got help ya know but its hard and sometimes i don't even want to quit so i don't know about this whole thing.....i encourage everyone to get help and talk to someone about it.

To do tomorrow-oct 14, 2007

1. Get up and take a shower
2. start going through my books-i want to make 3 pills keep, maybe, and get rid of. So i will need three boxes to start doing that tomorrow.
3. work on my plan to quit cutting and feel better-this includes.....making an info sheet for everything i do to be recorded....like what time i wake up, what time i go to sleep, what i did during the day what i ate, breakfast, lunch, dinner, did I self harm, did i have thoughts of self harm, did i have thoughts of suicide, Did i take my medicine, morning and night. All that stuff on one sheet. This will help me keep up with what i'm doing what skills i'm using how my lifestyle might be affecting what i'm doing and i can use this for my counselor to provide her with the info she needs cause she always ask how much sleep have you been getting so now i'll be able to tell her......also i need to find more coping skills
4. When i go through my room and like my closet area like with games and puzzels go through them and see if they have all the peices count out all the puzzle peices and see if they don't have it then get rid of them i need the space....start that tomorrow
5. Then i got this great idea for our avon business. It has to do with selling the breast cancer stuff and Domestic Violence stuff. I got the idea that we could take the items and make a flyer out of them with using pictures and stuff and putting all the order info on the flyers and passing the flyers out to everywhere to get the word out about breast cancer and domestic violence. We could try to get kmart to let us sell the stuff in front of their store or maybe walmart or sams and then maybe we could pass them out at the library or leave a big stack for the librarians to give to each person who checks out. We could distribute them to churchs to put out or use as bulletine inserts. Maybe the receptionist at universal would be willing to hand one out to all the people who come through. Maybe see if we could put some in the hospital waiting rooms. maybe give some to the school. We could posibly get personal on the flyers saying how much both these issues mean to us since we've had family in both situations. We can look up facts and info on breast cancer and domestic violence and put them on the flyers. Or we could just order us a crap load of books probably for the same price as making flyers and make a fact sheet insert to go in each booklet. thats an idea.

well i guess thats the end of my list i will probably be posting my plans to quit cutting on here soon so stay posted.

Coming Back

Hey everybody, sorry i haven't been on here much to post anything. I've been going through a hard time lately. I think this time of year is just a bad time year for me cause this is the month i had my suicide attempt last year. And i'm having small thoughts of wanting to do it agian but not major thoughts so thats a good sign.

I have started cutting agian. For those of you who don't know what that is I'll explain a little bit about it and then do a little longer post on it later in the week. Cutting is a form of self-injury. Self-injury includes cutting, burning, hitting, etc. People who self-injure tend not to be able to regulate their emotions well, and there seems to be a biologically-based impulsivity. I'll include more details later.

Also since the last time i have been on here I have smoked pot for the first time with my sister. It was pretty cool I guess. I just felt cool doing it. I also have been taught how to snort pills which was cool but didn't do anything for me so i haven't done it agian since.

I'm gunna work hard a t keeping this thing up to date so keep checking back.

news

well my mom found out i was cutting agian so thats out and now everybody knows.

I'm thinking of starting an online used book store and starting to sell used books. I'm gunna start out selling on ebay and amazon till i can set up a website of my own. I think it'd be cool.

I'm also wanting to work on doing something with mental health like passing out a paper with certain numbers on it and other stuff. I think itd be good.

I think thats it for now i guess.

Things

Theres been a little bit happening but not to much. Sorry i haven't been on here in a few days. I'm just giving you an update right now of whats happening then i'm gunna try to get some content on here later tonight or tomorrow.

I went to the dentist today. I had some cavities filled. They numbed my mouth up. I couldn't talk right afterwards it was pretty funny. But the fillings still hurt when they where drilling and blowing the air on the teeth. But thats over now

Veronica was over here earlier this week. We didn't do much together just enjoyed knowing we were in the same room with each other i guess.

My moms been on Vacation this week. I miss her bunches. She went to Harrisonberg, Virginia i think. Not sure about that though. Maybe ill look up some info on where she went here in a minute or something so i can be in the know.

I found out my counselor is quitting the place where shes working now and going to business for herself. She will hopefully take me with her but we don't know how everything will work out yet. I'm pretty nervous about that. What if she doesn't get to take me with her? I don't wanna switch counselors agian. Maybe I will just go without one for a while. I don't know.

We had homecomeing at church Sunday and it was pretty good. Lots of singin then of course there was some good food. I also saw Dino who went to another church and Bethany who said shes been going to another church.

I think thats it for now i'll try to update again later or tomorrow. See ya