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A message to everyone

Hello, I’m Mikayla and I began cutting on 8/10/11, I remember it so easily cause it was my first day back to school. I don’t know my reasons why; it’d always change. I used to come to this blog daily to read the new submissions and submit my own little reasons that were in my head at the time. Thank YOU for being here for everyone and keeping with this blog and running it; what you’re doing is greatly appreciated :).

I would be on and off with cutting because there were times I needed to stop in case someone I loved saw it, when I felt it was useless, and when I just didn’t have the urge… while the other times I felt addicted, I felt the strong urge to just cut, and when I wanted to desperately feel calm.

I made a promise to myself though.. that for 2012.. it’d be better for me; I’d stop with having these thoughts or at least attempt to alter them into confident-boosting thoughts, or anything that wouldn’t tempt me into feeling worse. I made a promise to stop cutting, and anything remotely close to self-harm. (I used to punch myself in the chest when I couldn’t cut.)

I will be a month free of self-harm on the 23rd of January 2012. I have all my reasons why I shouldn’t self-harm; more than ever as to why I should.

My message to anyone and everyone who is taking the time to read this is to stay strong. You’re not weak for cutting; but that doesn’t make it healthy or any better than the situation you’re in. I don’t know how to help you out of those situations, but you will and you will be able to help yourselves and overcome all of what you have to go through. You just really need to stay strong. In the times you feel urges, try to think of any reason as to why you want to get better, why you want to stop. 

I would type out a long speech but it’d just be saying the basic thing: Keep going. Be strong because you’re better than this and whatever situation you’re in, you can beat it and overcome it.

Have a safe life; once you try, then you’ll find it easier and easier to keep going. Sure, you’ll hit some roadblocks but that’s what makes the feeling of getting past it so much better :].

Relapsing? Don’t get hard on yourself about it. It happens, just gotta keep trudging through it all.. you can do it.



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