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Understanding Self Injury
❤️🩹 Self injury is a form of communication:
Recovery means learning other ways to communicate despair: therapy, art, all expressive arts, journaling:
Ways to learn how to discover the words to verbally express one’s emotions, (pain) rather than holding it in and turning it against yourself.
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Self injury is a warning sign that the person is distressed.
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Self injury is a MARKER that this person is going through a desperate period of their life.
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Self injury does not define you.
'How I overcame the urge to self-harm'
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