Unknowing Addiction

LCAS-A| Seiðr practitioner in training| Specializing in Addiction Education, Prevention, and Addiction Recovery| YouTube

[visit-ba-sing-se]

quick PSA: if they are only accepting you if you pass, they are not accepting you. if they are only accepting you if you “tone it down”, they are not accepting you. if they are only accepting you because “well at least you are not one of those xyz”, they are not accepting you. as long as acceptance is conditional, it can always be revoked, and those who state the conditions will maintain their power. do not make yourself any less of you for them.

[unknowingaddiction]

Harm reduction for self harm

Is it just me or is this defeating the purpose?

Is it just me or is this an oxymoron?

Let me be clear

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I hate myself so I want to harm myself.

[self-harm-harm-reduction]

Self-harm harm reduction resources

[PT: Self-harm harm reduction resources]

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This information is also on my website here!

Safer self-harming & first-aid:

Cutting the Risk (free book an sh harm reduction, first aid + anatomy info) (my favourite)

More Accurate Diagram of Safer Spots For Self Injury, made by an EMT with a phlebotomist, a paramedic, and nurse. No image description.

My website (wip), first aid for cuts, info on infections + first aid for (mild) infections, info on blood vessels, DIY first aid supplies

how to make butter fly bandages (image described)

Harm Minimisation, a brief guide to harm reduction for self-harm

Avoiding self-harm:

Calm Harm, an app that helps you “ride the wave” of self-harm urges. Free in the UK and US, charges may apply else where.

The Hurt Yourself Less Workbook (edited to remove some fatphobic language + images of self-harm, original here)

Finding useful distractions/displacements, distractions and displacements, delaying self harm (more distractions/alternatives, even more distraction/alternatives)

Helplines & other supports

Self-injury Support's (uk) webchat, phone, text, and email support services. webchat, phone, and text support have limited hours, see website. emails replied to with a week. (does not track ip/location, if identifiable info (i.e. name, location) about you or another person who is "is at risk of significant harm or death" or is hurting someone else is given it will be passed on (i.e. to emergency services))

alternatives to harmful crisis lines (USA focused, some resources available in Canada)

Misc:

@self-harm-harm-reduction, my blog. feel free to send an ask if you have harm reduction questions

Self-injury support (uk charity, lots of online resources)

What is a self-harm harm reduction plan

Self-harm report card, "this report card can be used if seeking treatment for an injury – for example given to health professionals"

Self-injury Support's resource library (resources not made by SiS found here, for resources by SiS check the "self-help info & resources" section of the menu)

[p03ticjvggalo]

This is super useful!! I wanted to add a little to this:

The app i used to recover is called HarmLess. You "check in" every day, and it helps you track how many urges you had, if you harmed yourself, and you put in a little journal note if you want to. You also get different app "themes" (color schemes) as rewards for clean streaks, check in days, etc. You also get to see a stopwatch counting upwards so you can look at exactly how long you've been clean and be proud of it :) if you harmed yourself and check that in, it starts the timer over and gives an encouraging quote. i've been using it for a while and i'm two years clean now, so i recommend it :)

[unknowingaddiction]

Ah, so this is why I can walk into any supermarket and buy brand new razors.

[unknowingaddiction]

Tfw

You aren't trying to kill yourself but realize the amount you have been doing doesn't work anymore.

[ash-cherryblossom]

”i’m probably doing it for attention” after not telling a living soul

[unknowingaddiction]

Oh of course. I mean they get literally offended by the scars covering my body.

Like how dare I maim myself and make them uncomfortable. Haven't I thought about everything they have gone through? How could I do this to them.

In fact, my scars may as well be screaming profanities at them.

[expectedadult]

god never designed a better torture than a sick body with an ambitious mind

[unknowingaddiction]

Or kids born to toxic parents, particularly substance using parents that didn't care if I died.

All that potential, wasted.

Amiright?

[chronicallydragons]

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizontal, but I need more horizontal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

[unknowingaddiction]

Perchance absorbed through the floor?

[unknowingaddiction]

Asking for a friend...

Someone mentioned a religion that views self-inflicted in¿ur¥ as religiously and morally sanctioned...

I want *that*. My friend wants that.

What's the name of the goddex I can pledge my my friend can pledge her bl00d to?

[lethroe]

[voyagers-stone]

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

[unknowingaddiction]

And even if you're not young.

Even if the employee did care, so the fuck what. I am not for everyone, nor do I want to be. Sometimes just need to have 0 fucks to give.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it’s okay to not be okay and still experience happiness

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

it’s okay to be doing well and still experience bad days

[unknowingaddiction]

The dialect exists because humans are

[sapphling]

like if you pay attention you'll find that a truly alarming amount of people genuinely believe that self harm, in and of itself, not used as leverage against another person, just the act of self harm at base is manipulative. i think about the way that people with no better coping mechanism available to them are treated as inherently abusive, very often by family members or people in other positions of power over them, constantly. it's such an effective way to force people to hide what they're doing and put them in much, much more dangerous situations than they're already in

[lovetobelostnotfound]

I do not like being drunk

I like the absence it gives me

the freedom from worry

I do not wish to be a drunk

I wish to forget the things that haunt me

the death of my sister

the abandoning of my child to join the military

the loveless marriage I have entered

I do not wish to be a drunk

but name something that can help me

and I will run to it

I will embrace it with both arms

you name me a drunk

without knowing I do not love the taste

I do not crave the hangovers and the anger that follow

I crave the moments and maybe hour at most

that follow

that let me be foolish

with no worry

with no judgement

I crave the company

that do not blame me for the sins of my family

or the consequences I could not control

I am not a drunk

I am a broken fool

with nothing else to use to feel at ease

nothing else to make me okay with everything I could not predict

everything I could not control

everything I fought against and yet still happened

you claim I love the taste

but instead I miss the absence of it

when I had all these freedoms without it

when I had the company of the people I am now forced to remember

when I had no worries as a child

I am not a drunk

but name me something that can help such as this and i’ll go

but you can’t

so I crave the bottle

because the bottle doesn’t call me broken

it calls me survivor

it calls me strong

and if you could think of everything I had to go through to get here

maybe you and the bottle would agree

maybe I am what it calls me

or maybe i’m weak because I only hear it from the bottle

either way

I am not better

and therefore I must do what it takes to survive

so the bottle I run to

and it embraces me

who am I to turn away from love

when I have lost so much

who I am to lose more

8.10.24

[unknowingaddiction]

The question is never "Why the addiction?" but "Why the pain?"

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

-Gabor Maté, MD

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[self-harm-harm-reduction]

People existing with self-harm scars is not promoting self-harm.

People posting photos of themselves with scars is not promoting self-harm.

People making and sharing art of characters with self-harm scars is not promoting self-harm.

Your just ableist.

No body should ever have to hide their body or be told their existence needs to come with a trigger warning

[dead-mad]

If scars trigger you becouse you self harm, that's ok. You cannot always control how you feel, but you cannot tell people that them having a visably disabled body is harmful and they must hide it, even if just online with "#tw scars" or "#tw sh". That is a person and they deserve to be treated with respect.

Being told your body existing makes you responsible for others self harm or that your body needs to be censored at all times is dehumanising.

[unknowingaddiction]

Years ago unfriended because I was a bridesmaid in bridezilla's wedding and all the wedding photos I was in were "too disturbing" because of my scars.

They asked me if it would be okay to edit all the photos to remove my scars.

They asked me if it would be okay to edit all the photos to remove my scars.

They asked me if it would be okay to edit all the photos to remove my scars.

I didn't consent. I said those say more than any words ever could. This is my resilience. This is my vulnerability laid bare.

This is apart of who I am.

A week later Bridezilla, who was my best friend since childhood, said she would remove me from her life.

[swallowglass]

Got mad about a made up situation and cut myself about it. I think the ER doctor is mad at me too