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Spite and coffee.
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August 21st 2012, 04:01 AM
Keeping busy and giving myself no time to stop and think about SH.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 21st 2012, 04:21 AM
Watching tv, and on Tumblr.
From day one I talked about getting out
But not forgetting about
How all my worst fears are letting out
He said, "Why put a new address on the same old loneliness?"
When breathing just passes the time
Until we all just get old and die
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 23rd 2012, 08:01 AM
Calming myself down by being more aware of my breathing and controlling it.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 24th 2012, 02:47 PM
Watching a dvd, talking to my brother.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 24th 2012, 05:38 PM
Setting myself goals to be SH free until a certain event.
"Why want another universe if this one has dogs?"
Matt Haig - The Midnight Library
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 24th 2012, 06:11 PM
By watching Good Luck Charlie 
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August 25th 2012, 03:26 AM
Remembering that my boyfriend will peek under the wristband at random times.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 26th 2012, 09:00 AM
By focusing on my studies. (and Math....something I'm quite horrible at)
All we can do is Keep Breathing...!
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August 26th 2012, 02:51 PM
Not having the opportunity to go out and buy "stuff that works better".
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August 26th 2012, 04:01 PM
Drawing butterflies on myself, in permanent markers. You can't harm yourself until the butterfly goes away, and permanent marker lasts awhile, so it makes me take time to calm down.
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August 26th 2012, 04:20 PM
Knowing that my mum will be hurt if she found out. So Im tryin to stop for her. I love my mum <3
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I wanna be alive well don't you? There's no use in feeling low.
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August 27th 2012, 07:39 PM
Making recovery posters to hang in my room. 
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August 28th 2012, 07:45 AM
I found my ultimate motivator.
I want to quit so I can go to France in November with my school. My progress is being closely monitored, so I'm going to put in my very best effort to fight this. I'm not going to let self-harm get in the way of my goal <3
Be like the turtle;
at ease in your own shell.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 31st 2012, 10:24 AM
I cried myself to sleep. Ah well, it worked.
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August 31st 2012, 11:15 AM
I'm not really sure anymore how I do it. I guess I just know for sure that I don't want to anymore so I am doing my very best not to. I keep telling myself just make it another month and it will feel like a great accomplishment and it always does! Then It just makes me excited to start my next month.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
August 31st 2012, 10:13 PM
Talking to a friend on Facebook. And writing angry music.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
September 1st 2012, 03:25 AM
Listening to music.
From day one I talked about getting out
But not forgetting about
How all my worst fears are letting out
He said, "Why put a new address on the same old loneliness?"
When breathing just passes the time
Until we all just get old and die
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September 4th 2012, 01:27 AM
iPod, texting my best friend, on here
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September 4th 2012, 05:51 PM
Hi, today I manage to stop myself from self harming by making a book for my young cousin!
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
September 5th 2012, 10:36 AM
By playing Pokemon in the middle of the night. 
Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do, then I should warn you - you're gonna see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won't be quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: The trip of a lifetime!
Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless.
RIP Granddad Terry. I'll miss you.
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September 5th 2012, 10:40 AM
I stopped myself from self harming by going for a long walk xx
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September 9th 2012, 06:19 PM
I have been thinking about cutting again when yesterday a friend of mine told that when i feel like i should a piece of paper and pencil and go all Avril Lavigne and thats what i do now. I have been self-harm free for 70 days.
My wrist have cuts and scars, and they tell my story and who i am.
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September 9th 2012, 11:02 PM
Listening to music, exercising, doing homework, talking to my bff on skype
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September 12th 2012, 11:34 AM
By using sheer willpower. I don't find occupational methods very helpful - if I want to stop doing something, I just 'quit' there and then. Sort of an impulse, heat of the moment thing.
It's worked, given that I'm approaching two years free...
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September 13th 2012, 01:16 AM
I stopped myself tonight. I was literally about to cut, then I thought about how I didn't want anymore scars and I wanted to get better. Also thought about how I'll probably see my best friend this weekend and if she asked about it, I'd rather tell her I haven't hurt myself in a few weeks rather than just a few days.
"Just open your eyes and see that life is beautiful..." ~Sixx:A.M.
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September 13th 2012, 11:54 PM
By giving my boyfriend my blade and promising him I wouldn't hurt myself anymore.
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September 25th 2012, 02:48 AM
Online, and watching tv.
From day one I talked about getting out
But not forgetting about
How all my worst fears are letting out
He said, "Why put a new address on the same old loneliness?"
When breathing just passes the time
Until we all just get old and die
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September 26th 2012, 01:26 AM
Talking to my beautiful girlfriend about it. <3
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
September 27th 2012, 03:16 AM
A whole hell of will-power!
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When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
September 28th 2012, 04:32 AM
I've been emailing myself when I feel like doing it, sort of like an online journal that only I can see.
I also made a list of goals to start small without SH and eventually progress to not doing it anymore.
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September 28th 2012, 07:47 AM
I go to the skatepark or I hit the streets and pick something to conquer that day. A 2 set of stairs, a 4-set, a drop etc etc.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
September 28th 2012, 05:37 PM
Going to homecoming without a wristband.
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September 29th 2012, 11:05 AM
Distracting myself by reading a lot of good books.
Do you wanna come with me? 'Cause if you do, then I should warn you - you're gonna see all sorts of things. Ghosts from the past. Aliens from the future. The day the Earth died in a ball of flame. It won't be quiet, it won't be safe, and it won't be calm. But I'll tell you what it will be: The trip of a lifetime!
Don't trust a perfect person and don't trust a song that's flawless.
RIP Granddad Terry. I'll miss you.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 1st 2012, 03:07 PM
Not being alone when the waves of depression come over me.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 1st 2012, 11:26 PM
Staying strong for someone who has been staying strong for me.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 2nd 2012, 12:13 AM
I want my parents to trust me.
From day one I talked about getting out
But not forgetting about
How all my worst fears are letting out
He said, "Why put a new address on the same old loneliness?"
When breathing just passes the time
Until we all just get old and die
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October 2nd 2012, 12:43 AM
I told myself what my mum said, that she was in tears from a nightmare she'd had of me. I promised her and I failed :/ I hate breaking promises  now my will-power isn't enough.... MIght just read or watch TV, something lazy or leave the house, distance myself from the matches.
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My blog is open to all, those whom are easily triggered avoid, it's a story about a girl and her life and how far she has come over the years. If you read it, I hope it inspires you to keep fighting and to NEVER give up!
When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 4th 2012, 02:40 PM
Not wanting to hear the pain in my boyfriends voice when he asks if I did it again
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 5th 2012, 01:03 AM
Last night it was really hard but I got out my "emergency kit" and tried nearly everything in it. I listened to calming music, I used smell goods, I drank tea but what really helped was I did a really hard sudoku puzzle, I wouldn't let myself self-harm until I was done with the puzzle. By the time I was done I was really tired and was able to lay down and I fell right to sleep.
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Re: How are you beating Self Harm? -
October 5th 2012, 01:46 AM
Writing poems n how I feel. So, yeah, my poems are mostly depressive shit.
Or, playing sims, give my hands something to do.
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A whisper in the dark; is better than silence in the light. -Courtesy of your's truly.
My blog is open to all, those whom are easily triggered avoid, it's a story about a girl and her life and how far she has come over the years. If you read it, I hope it inspires you to keep fighting and to NEVER give up!
When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over.
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