Filed under: Borderline Personality Disorder, Coping Skills, self-harm | Tags: borderline personality, coping skills, feelings, negative thinking, sef-harm, victim
A high school girl in my Facebook group, The Safe Place for Cutters, wrote:
“i haven’t cut in a really long time…for me, i was feeling so lost in life and the pain from cutting helped center me. i’ve finally learned that you have to love yourself or else nobody will ever be able to love you. i’m such a perfectionist and it has been so hard to let go of the perfect image that i had of my self, and to accept that i am not always going to be able to live up to my ridiculous expectations of myself, but now that i have, i feel liberated. i hope that all of you are able to find that place of acceptance within yourself…we’re all here for you, because we all are going through or have gone through something similar if not exactly the same as what you’re going through.
much love to all of you!”
Sometimes the members in my group say it so much better than I could ever say myself.
To A Life Worth Living,
Foresteen Forbes, Psy. D.
1 Comment so far
Leave a comment
I really resonate with what that girl wrote. Wish I could get to that place of acceptance!
Comment by tcbml May 17, 2010 @ 15:42