Once you pop...

[ratherbeAnonymous]

Someone once told me once you self harm you never really stop.
I stopped for about 3 years no problem yet had a raging urge to sh last night and carried through with it tonight. never thought i would do it again haven't even really thought about doing it for a long time.
feeling a little bit odd, not lonley or anything, but wouldn't mind chatting about the topic if anyone feels comfortable with it. please pm me or something, never really used this site. thanks for reading.

[-Silence]

First, welcome!

Sorry it took me so long to get to this.

Once you stop, you can stop completely, BUT, the thoughts and urges of cutting will always be with you. And even that all varies by degree and length that you were cutting for.

Congrats on going three years, now dont beat yourself up over cutting again. It happens. The only thing left for you to do is pick yourself back up and keep going on your way.

Now those urges will be with you for a really really long time, but you will learn that thats all they are, Urges, you can get past them.

Hang in there and good luck!

[zackF.]

Almost the same thing happened to me. Months ago, I was really upset, depressed not feeling myself and I cut myself. It was my first time and i didnt really do it much just a couple of cuts. But today was one really hard day and I felt like everyone was mad at me and no one would understand me or listen to me. I drove to work (where I am now) and smoked a cigarette because I usually calm down after that, but it didnt work at all. I got to work and just cut my leg probably over 50 times. They arent deep but it took a few minutes to get them to stop bleeding. I know I am not really helping but I just needed to post this somewhere and I didnt want to make a thread. I hope both of us can get past all of our problems whatever they may be and try not to SH anymore. It will take time and I know I will probably SH again if I get pushed far enough, but I really do hope one day we can both make it through.

[Asylum]

i'm sorry but good job you managed to stop for that long. you can stop again it's not over.. yes it's hard ... same thing happened to me i stopped for months now i'm back into it again... PM me if you need someone to talk to good luck

[Project Delta]

I've just got over a year and yeah everytime something really shitty happens the feelings come back. But you need to make sure you have the power to overcome those feelings and just get on with it. It's only just started to get a bit iffy for me again but i think I'm holding up okay. Stick in there!