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shutterbug · 08-02-2007, 08:51 PM

suggestion: whenever you feel like cutting or super depressed or anything else...come here and write about what you are feeling.

the reason we self-injure is for relief. how hurting ourselves brings relief i have yet to figure out, but oddly enough it does. what i've found through my own journaling is that it also brings relief! when i write about the awful things going on inside it releases their hold on me little by little. If i'm going to have these awful things rolling around in my head all day...i might as well open a door to allow some of them out instead of doing nothing and keeping them all bottled up.

Depression journaling is beneficial in more ways than i can describe, but it's basically like having someone to talk things out with at anytime, day or night, and like getting free therapy to boot! I mean, every week when i see my therapist....i do most of the talking anyway, right!

anyway, i can feel so much in your words and i fear that you are young which hurts my heart more to see you struggling so. do you mind if i ask your age?

Also...are you on any anti-depressants or non-addictive anxiety meds?

08-02-2007, 08:51 PM	#4 (permalink)
shutterbug A picture's worth a 1000 words Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: With any luck, I'm lost in a view finder Posts: 2,947 Blog Entries: 5	suggestion: whenever you feel like cutting or super depressed or anything else...come here and write about what you are feeling. the reason we self-injure is for relief. how hurting ourselves brings relief i have yet to figure out, but oddly enough it does. what i've found through my own journaling is that it also brings relief! when i write about the awful things going on inside it releases their hold on me little by little. If i'm going to have these awful things rolling around in my head all day...i might as well open a door to allow some of them out instead of doing nothing and keeping them all bottled up. Depression journaling is beneficial in more ways than i can describe, but it's basically like having someone to talk things out with at anytime, day or night, and like getting free therapy to boot! I mean, every week when i see my therapist....i do most of the talking anyway, right! anyway, i can feel so much in your words and i fear that you are young which hurts my heart more to see you struggling so. do you mind if i ask your age? Also...are you on any anti-depressants or non-addictive anxiety meds? __________________ I'M FINE!! Fanatically Insecure Neuratic & Emotional Bipolar/Depression support: 1-800-950-NAMI(6264).