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[zeldaartist]

... since last weekend ive been using tools to hurt myself.. its the only way i can cope.. i cant turn to my parents.. they are to blame as well as my family..
i talk to a student support worker at school, a great friend very close to me, she knows and wants me to stop
but now a week off school and soon starting sixth form..we see eachother very little.. and right now im wanting to do it again.. either with stanley knife or sizzors to the back of my hand... please help me,.. this was the only place i could come to..
i also have extremly low self esteem and confidence..

[stephmarie]

i no how you feel. Self harm is such a hard thing to deal with. I blamed my family for it too. But now i've realized that if I wana change...I have to take the first steps.
Remember who u are...what you have....who ur friends are...and remember you always have other options such as...coming here..
Message me...if you would like to know my whole story!
Best of luck! <3

[Celestial.]

Hey there.

It sounds like you're in a bit of a tough spot. Reaching out here for help was a very good first step, and shows that even if right now you want to hurt yourself, there's also a part of you that knows you shouldn't, and that wants to beat the urge.

You say you have low self-esteem. Do you know why that is? Has something happened to make you feel that way, for example? If you start figuring out the feelings behind your feelings, you can start learning to deal with them.

There are also plenty of ways to build up your self-esteem and confidence. A simple Google search on either topic will show you a million different techniques. A couple of my favourite are to write a list of things you like about yourself (or have a trusted friend write it about you) and look at it whenever you feel bad; along the same lines, try and find one thing you like about yourself each day, and tell it to yourself. For example, one day you might say 'I have pretty eyes', and then the next, 'I'm an empathetic person', or something like that. Also, I've found that if you act like a good person, you feel like one too. A simple nice deed for someone can not only make them feel better, but also increase your own self-esteem.

Good luck, and take care.

[musicslife]

Hey,

I have never had problems with depression, or self harm or suicide attempt or anything like that so I am not sure as to whether this is good advice or not. But I love to help people. I like it when I say the right thing make people smile. But I am soo not good at that. Okay, back to the topic. If what I am writing is stupid, then just ignore it.

As I said, I haven't had any such problems but I get angry a lot. And I feel like I wanna break every single thing in the house. And what I do is I close my room and cry. Cry my heart out so that I feel a whole lot better. Or I write in my journal. And writing helps me a lot. Another option is to listen to music for I love to do that. I'd suggest the writing in journal or listening to music part if I were you. Whenever you want to harm yourself, just listen to some music or write or tear up some rough paper or something like that.

And always believe in yourself. Sometimes it will be very hard. But you have to do it. Nobody's a complete loser. And believe in God. Cuz he'll always be there for you. These are just some tests that you have to pass to get that fat A. So go for it.

Kavitha