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  • What should a person do if they are considering harming themselves right now?

    1. Leave the room where the you are being tempted or triggered to harm yourself. 2. Call or personally talk to someone who will try to understand 3. Consider making a journal entry about their feelings right now. Write about what led them to this moment today, how they feel right now, and what they are...
    Posted to Self-Injury by PreacherboyReborn on 02-23-2010
    Tags: Self-Injury

  • What is the nature of self-injury?

    One of the problems with self-injury is that it is not just skin-deep. As Dawson has told past callers, “for every scar on their body they have a scar on their heart”. The causes of self-injury are typically deep-rooted and the behavior flows from a serious emotional need and the inability...
    Posted to Self-Injury by PreacherboyReborn on 02-23-2010
    Tags: Self-Injury

  • Where can a person find more information on self-injury?

    For more information check out the following resources, 1. S.A.F.E. Alternatives 2. Clarke, Liam; Whittaker, Margaret. "Self-Mutilation: Culture, Contexts and Nursing Responses." Journal of Clinical Nursing. 1998. Vol. 7. 3. Favazza, AR. Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification...
    Posted to Self-Injury by PreacherboyReborn on 02-22-2010
    Tags: Self-Injury

  • How can an individual help someone who is dealing with self-injury?

    1. Show them genuine love and concern. Don’t talk down to them. 2. Always take them seriously when they talk about it. 3. Don’t be afraid to talk to them about it. If unsure, ask them if they sometimes intentionally hurt themselves. 4. Help them seek out the assistance of others such as teachers...
    Posted to Self-Injury by PreacherboyReborn on 02-22-2010
    Tags: Self-Injury

  • 121. Resisting The Urge To Cut

    In my last blog, I gave you four things to focus on to help you quit cutting: Talk it out, Wake up to your actual feelings, Ask for help, and Seek God. Once you decide you’re committed to stop cutting, you will find out what a struggle it is to go sober—and stay free from this horrible addiction...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 11-06-2009
    Tags: Depression, Suicide, Self-Injury, Addiction, cutting

  • 120. How to Quit Cutting

    By learning new ways of dealing with your emotional pain, you will finally be able to give up this horribly destructive addiction. Here we are again, talking about issues that are difficult to discuss, but must be brought up. The more we try to hide them, the more power they have over our lives and the...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 10-30-2009
    Tags: Depression, Suicide, Self-Injury, Addiction, cutting, How to

  • 119. Consequences of Cutting

    I have been, for the last several weeks, blogging about cutting. It is not easy, or pretty. But neither is cancer, and we deal with it everyday. Cutting is a nasty, horrific addiction. There is nothing quite like it, short of suicide. Though most cutters would claim they don’t want to kill themselves...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 10-23-2009
    Tags: Depression, Suicide, Self-Injury, feelings, cutting

  • 118. What Happens To Your Body When You Cut?

    You don’t have to stay stuck in the vicious circle of self-mutilation. If you’ve read any of my last couple of blogs about cutting, you know cutting is very difficult to talk about. That’s why so few people do. But you and I have talked about many things with my blogs and on my radio...
    Posted to Dawson's Blog by Dawson on 10-16-2009
    Tags: Depression, Suicide, Self-Injury, Addiction, cutting
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