Self-Harm Recovery Daily Check In: Monday, November 18th, 2019
Heya amazing people!
Another week is starting, lets make the most of it!
How are you doing today?
What are the high/low of your day?
Besides remembering to take care of ourselves, are there some other important reminders youd like to share? (for example mine is remembering to not be too hard on ourselves)
Take good care of yourselves, I cant wait to hear from you all! x
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@LinearWaves Oh well.
How are you doing today?
I couldn't help myself the other day. After a bad fight with my dad I cut. Like a lot. Life sucks I guess. I really needa find something else I can do to punish myself for behaving badly. Something, anything!
What are the high/low of your day?
Today is good. It's well. I'm at home and soon out for a bikeride. Low is that my knees hurts a lot, but I'm kinda used to that.
Besides remembering to take care of ourselves, are there some other important reminders you
@EvilRegalsReadToo
Hey there! I'm really sorry to hear that you had a bad fight with your dad, and that it made you feel like punishing yourself for behaving badly. I get the feeling of needing to punish yourself, I'll share what I usually (try to) do when I get in this mood, maybe something can help you too! I mostly turn to physical things that make me feel something. Working out is helpful, especially high intensity interval training (HIIT) where you set your timer for 20 minutes for example and do 8 reps of an exercice, for 20 seconds, with 10 seconds breaks, with 4 different exercices (with a 1 minute break in between exercices). It's challenging and draining so hopefully after these 20 minutes you feel "hurt" from the working out and too drained to hurt yourself more. What can also help is playing with the cold, for example holding ice cubes, or taking a cold shower (that one can be combined with the working out sesh). I'll look if I can find more ideas!
Also, just a suggestion, if you feel like hurting yourself because of fighting with your dad (or anyone), do you think talking to them when being calmer could help?
I hope your bike ride went well and that it didn't add to your pain in your knees! Is it something you can get checked sometime? Also, I've red in the monthly goals that you were doing the NANOWRIMO, how is it going?
Great reminders! Especially hydration that we usually don't do enough. Thank you for sharing!
Take care x
@LinearWaves Normally I work out when I'm upset, but "normally" I only argue with my family when it's late or haven gotten dark outside, so I can't do my normal bike-ride-rutine.
In my family we don't talk about our fights at all. We just have them, and the next day it seems like everyone has forgotten it. So I just act like it never happened too :S
I have rheumatoid arthritis so knee-pains is there to stay sadly. Especially when my doctor wanna stop giving me my meds, as of next summer. So that's kind of... shitty. But I guess I will have to learn to live with even more pains that I already have.
NANO is going very, very well. I'm almost at 60k, so 10k over the goal :)
@EvilRegalsReadToo
I get that normally , its sometimes hard to stick to something when being really upset…
Oh, Im sorry to hear he wants to stop giving you your meds, does he have a kind of back-up plan though so that youre not just left to handle the pain?
Thats amazing for NANO! Well done!
@LinearWaves
How are you doing today? I am doing good. I'm getting caught up in school.
What are the high/low of your day? High: Understanding my chemistry class. Low: Spent most of the day irritated for no reason.
Besides remembering to take care of ourselves, are there some other important reminders youd like to share? You are loved.
@PurpleSnail
Im glad to hear youre doing good ! I hope you can still take a few moments within the day to take good care of yourself, as school can get intense!
Yay for understanding your chemistry class! I get these days as well when I tend to be irritated for no reason, Im not quite sure where that comes from, also not quite sure what to do to stop that. I guess sometimes it can come from not having enough sleep or at least no high quality sleep because it sometimes disappears after a small nap when I can take one. I dont know if it could be the same for you? Do they seem to happen often?
Great reminder, thank you for sharing it! Take care x
@LinearWaves
How are you doing today? Not well, It's just been a bad time all in all.
What are the high/low of your day? The high would be playing my bass clarinet. The low would be hearing my friend tell me that I am a cause of her recent relapse of self harm.
Besides remembering to take care of ourselves, are there some other important reminders youd like to share? No matter what anyone else says, you are worth something to someone. Someone out there loves you.
@TinyMousy
Heya! I
Hi there @LinearWaves, today I decided I should also briefly join the check-in.
How are you doing today? I have been feeling quite numb actually in the past few days. I am not really in touch with my feelings as I should be.
What are the high/low of your day? It's 9.30 am in the morning, so I do not know yet :) But I am getting a tattoo this afternoon... one that means a lot to me. I guess this is going to be both the high (lots of enthusiasm) and the low (the pain) of the day.
@admaiorasemper
Hey Valeria! It's a pleasure to have you check in!
I'm sorry to hear you've been feeling numb the past few days (well at least it's not a feeling that I personally like) how are you handling it so far? I wish I had a suggestion on how to "reconnect" with one's feelings but I'm never sure either of how to make this feeling pass... I guess self-care and being patient can never be wrong though!
It's great that you're getting a meaningful tattoo this afternoon! Is it your first? About the pain I was actually quite surprised that it wasn't as painful as I had thought, but everyone is different on that and it also really depends on the area you're getting it, and how long the session will be, and so on... I hope it goes well and you don't feel much pain! (also don't forget the pH 7 soap and the healing cream to take good care of your skin afterwards, but I guess you've looked up the right information already)
Thank you for checking in, feel free to do it anytime, take care x
@LinearWaves thank you for your warm welcome :)
I am doing ok with numbness, I actually quite enjoy it... better than pain... But I know it is not healthy and I should do some grounding exercises.
The tattoo went great, I didn't feel anything. It is my third, and I have the impression that the more tattoos I get, the less painful they become lol. I can't wait to see it healed :)
Take care you too x
@admaiorasemper
My pleasure!
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@LinearWaves
I particularly like the 5-4-3-2-1 exercise, do you know it? But... I'm just... not ready to let go of the numbness yet.
Wish you a lovely day or evening (it's 9.15 pm here!) x
@admaiorasemper
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How are you doing today?
I'm not to bad, these past couple days have been kinda difficult but I think I'm handiling it.
What are the high/low of your day?
(slight tw) Yesterday I really wanted to self injure. I was so tense and stressed and I wanted a form of relief so desprately, I was sitting on my bed crying fighting myself on whether or not I should do it. But I didn't do it, and I'm really proud of myself. And I'm glad I can share that victory here 'cause I have no one else to share it with.
Besides remembering to take care of ourselves, are there some other important reminders youd like to share?
Allow yourself to feel all your feelings, even the ones you wish you could get rid of. Its better to allow the feelings to come, process them and move on, then to bottle them up until they burst.
@fairmindedRaspberries1389
Hey there! It