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It's for people who self harm whenever you want to cut use a marker/pen and draw on yourself. It has 7 rules
Anonymous
August 2nd, 2015 12:01pm
The Butterfly Project has been created for self-harmers who feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do so. All you have to do is simply draws a butterfly where you'd normally self-harm and, if the butterfly fades without you self-harming, it means it has lived and flown away.
Anonymous
August 2nd, 2015 6:11pm
A project in which people draw a butterfly on themselves for self harm prevention and awareness. :))
Anonymous
August 6th, 2015 5:58am
the butterfly project is where people draw butterflies on themselves instead of self harming. If someone else draws one on you, it's extra special. If you harm when the butterfly is there, you kill it.
If you are having a hard time and you want to cut yourself or do other stuff like this, just take a marker and start drawing butterflies!
It is a project of stopping self harm. I can say that it's a very good project and it helped me a lot. You should draw a butterfly on your skin and give a name of a person you love. Don't wash it by yourself and don't hurt yourself. If you hurt yourself, the butterfly will die. And nobody wants the butterfly with the name of dear person to die. So it helps. When you care about this butterfly, you care about your dear person. You don't think about yourself and self harm at this moment. You feel like you have responsibility for your activities. Or you just feel sorry to kill this wonderful butterfly.
Anonymous
August 8th, 2015 1:21pm
i really dont know. can you elaborate about it so that i may help better. dont panic. i m here to help you out. tell me your issue and i will try to heal u from it
The Butterfly Project is drawing a butterfly on one's wrist to support and raise awareness about self-harm.
Anonymous
August 8th, 2015 9:13pm
The Butterfly Project is a great way to cope with self harm. What you do, is any time you feel like hurting yourself, cutting for example, draw a butterfly with a Sharpie or permanent marker on the area you feel like inflicting the cuts, maybe give the butterfly a name, like the name of a loved one. So it means cutting will kill the butterfly. And when that butterfly starts to fade, your scars will too. And if you keep feeling the need to self harm, just draw another one. It keeps you from hurting yourself and it's a great way to overcome self harm.
Anonymous
August 9th, 2015 9:04am
The butterfly project is where you draw a butterfly on your wrist and name it after somebody you love to stop you self harming
the butterfly project is a project that can aid people who self harm to resist the urges to self harm
The Butterfly Project has been created for self-harmers who feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do
Anonymous
August 12th, 2015 12:50am
The Butterfly project is basically drawing a butterfly on your wrist whenever you want to cut, and if you find yourself wanting to cut, then you look at that butterfly and not cut it. You can't wash it off, it has to fade off.
Where someone who is thinking about self harm or has already done self harm, paints butterflies on the location they are thinking of hurting, andgiving the butterflies names of love ones and friends, so that if they self harm they are killing that butterfly
Anonymous
August 12th, 2015 5:27am
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Let no evil enter, nor attempt to reduce us, because of the beliefs we hold
And with this love, combined with our strength, We ward off pain and stress
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The butterfly project is a project to raise awareness of self-harm and help people stop engaging it it by painting a butterfly on their skin instead of hurting themselves.
Anonymous
August 12th, 2015 7:56pm
the butterfly project is a project to help those suffering with self harm. self harmers draw a butterfly on the place they cut (wrist, thigh, hip, etc.) and name it after someone they love. if they harm themself, the butterfly "dies" so they have to stay clean to not "kill" the butterfly
Anonymous
August 13th, 2015 4:59am
The butterfly project to me is where you are struggling with addiction or self harm, and you draw a butterfly on your body or somewhere to remember who cares about you. If you do something to the butterfly then you hurt whoever the person was that you thought about.
Anonymous
August 13th, 2015 2:15pm
The butterfly project is for people who self harm. What you do is, you draw butterflies on your wrists or wherever you cut, and you cant kill the butterfly.
Anonymous
August 13th, 2015 7:26pm
The butterfly project is when you draw a butterfly on you and you can't self harm until it fades off
the butterfly project is for all the people who used to cut themselves. Basically you draw a butterfly on the part in your body you used to cut, and everytime you feel like wanna cut yourself you have to imagine you will kill that butterfly, so you won't do it.
The Butterfly Project is an initiative that was started for those who struggle with self harm, you, or someone you love, draws a butterfly on your body (usually where you would self harm) and your goal, is to keep the butterfly alive by not engaging in self harming behaviours :)
The Butterfly Project is a project aimed at helping people find a better way to cope when they have the desire to self-harm, the idea is to draw a butterfly on your arm instead of each cut.
Anonymous
August 14th, 2015 9:44pm
The butterfly project is for people who have the urge to self harm. Basically what it is, is if you ever have the urge to self harm, you draw a butterfly with a pen or marker where you wanna hurt yourself.
The Butterfly Project has been created for self-harmers who feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do so. A member’s hypnotherapist, who found this idea on an online blog and felt that it was a good idea that should be promoted as a distraction, has recommended it.
The butterfly project is a self harm awareness/help campaign. The people draw butterflies where they would like to harm themselves, and then name the butterfly after someone they love. As long as the butterfly is on there, self harming would result in "killing" the person they named the butterfly after. They can't scrub it off either. People also draw butterflies on their wrists to show support for those going through a hard time with self harming.
Anonymous
August 15th, 2015 6:10pm
I know that often our first reaction when we are angry is to lash out at other people. Often anger is brought about because of great frustration or deep hurt. But what happens if you've been taught to never lash out at other people? Or what happens if you always feel to blame, even when you couldn't possibly be? Often this leads to us lashing out at ourselves because we don't feel able to lash out at others. You could also replace "lash out" with "express feelings" in this example very easily. If you've never learned how to express yourself, you may feel unable to communicate strong emotions like anger.
Anonymous
October 29th, 2015 7:25pm
The butterfly project is a project to help people who self harm resist to the urges to cut, They draw a butterfly where they self harm (with a permanent marker) and it represents someone they care about to help them they strong and try not to harm/"kill" the butterfly before it fades away, when it fades away, another is drawn.
1. when you feel like you want to cut, take a marker or pen and draw a butterfly wherever the self-harm occurs.
2. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better.
3. No scrubbing the butterfly off.
4. If you cut before the butterfly is gone, it dies. If you don't cut, it lives.
5. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special. Take good care of them.
6. Even if you don’t cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support. The Butterfly Project has personally helped me a lot and I know that it has helped a lot of other people I know too. My best friend drew a butterfly on my wrist and it has helped me stay clean so much. I really like this project.
Anonymous
March 22nd, 2016 12:26pm
The butterfly project is a way to help self harmers try to stop their cutting or burning or whatever method they use. The affected person, and sometimes those who support them, draw butterflies on whatever place they tend to self harm. The point is to let the butterfly, typically drawn in sharpie or another permanent marker, fade on its own. When it fades, you've succeeded and you've let the butterfly fly away and be free. To self harm in that place means that you've hurt your butterfly and you must start over, washing it off and drawing a new one.
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