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Hello Everyone :wave: This is another post to keep for a short time. I was challenged by a friend a month ago to not allow negative thoughts to enter my mind. It use to be to try and not say anything negative about myself. But she took it one step farther and told me that anytime a negative...

This is something I wrote as a song but it can stand alone as well. It is sad at first because it begins with where I was when I hit bottom regarding self-harm. However, the second half is about having a resolve to get better and finding that God is truly the place "to end and begin". This Post...

I've read most of the pertinent posts in this forum and haven't found any solid coping information for Adults with high functioning Aspergers. I have grave difficulties in disorganized social functions and cannot attend them without disaster. I haven't gone to any potluck, concert, picnics...

I've been in another part of the Mental Health Forum and this is my first visit here and will not be my last. I've recently been diagnosed with Aspergers which is okay. Reading through the symptoms has been like seeing my social biography flash before my eyes. What a journey and eye openning...

I'm amazed at how much God really loves us. I am still not allowing myself personhood. I used to call myself a piece of meat because that is what I was reduced to. That title made it easy for me to S.I. when I felt like. Now I've moved up a step to "ground round." So, I guess there is hope...

I was thinking about a journal entry I wrote awhile ago. Then wrote this short song about a "Dear John" letter to Self Abuse. I'M SAYING FAREWELL TO AN OLD "FRIEND" AND NOT LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER. IT'S TIME HAS PASSED. BECAUSE I NOW KNOW. THIS SO CALLED LOVE ONLY LIED AND USED ME...

What is the Christian heading for his or her "friend" thinking about? Is it, "I need relief from all this anxiety or tension?" Or, "I need to be punished again?" And, "I want to 'feel' alive now?" God tells His children in Collossians 3:2 "Set your affections on things above, and do not be...

Matthew Henry says in his book on "EXPERIENCING GOD'S PRESENCE" PERHAPS YOU HAVE A JOURNEY TO GO ON. LOOK UP TO GOD FOR HIS PRESENCE WITH YOU, AND GO NO PLACE WHERE YOU CANNOT, IN FAITH, ENTREAT GOD TO GO WITH YOU. [Entreat means to ask with tenderness, love, and earnestness] We are all...

Matthew Henry in his book, EXPERIENCING GOD'S PRESENCE has this to say to us: "You should entreat God so that you may have wisdom, in whatever company you find yourself in, to do good and not harm to them and to get good and not harm by them." I find that quite profound when it comes to...

Once an individual(s) S.I.'er has been working at recover. Hopefully, this person or people know by now what the root causes are. And have a pretty good list of the things that serve as triggers. I would trust and pray that your journey(s) would continue and not stop there. For if we stand...

There really is a difference between having an urge or impulse to harm onself and actually going through with the act of S.I. The time gap between thinking about it and doing it are the moments or sometimes hours or days that S.I.ers have to stop themselves fro going through with the act...

Hello I am new and will not intrude too much: I am not a native American. Although, My Fathers Great Great Great Grand Father married a Lakota Indian in Minnasota many years ago. That is about it for me. However, I love your many cultures and pass through Mohawk Country in New York State...

I wasn't very old when my brother found a wonderful way to keep me quiet and instructed me in what became "the child" to only smile and laugh when around anyone else if "she" could not be silent. This "child" survied only to become an S.I. individual who remained silent. I had many secrets and...

This may shocking but mamalonglegs is making a short post :amen: ! This is a

:hug: Hello Everyone: I used the word "closure" in a reply earlier and the mod's had trouble understanding what I meant by the word. I figure that most all of those who view the reply did too. I am writing this thread to thoroughly explain what I mean by closure in the S.I. sense. The idea...

I am new to this particular forum but see lots of potential for exchange of information. This could be quite fun and educational. I have many interests in the natural world as a 22 year old woodswoman. Among my favorites is to identify birds by their songs because I hear them much more...

This is a "Quote" from a portion of a devotional book by Andrew Murray. He is one of the great writers about the deeper issues of life if you wish such good reading get his books. People like us who S.I. have great difficulty going through emotions that are uncomfortables. This is one of the...

To all in this Forum including myself: Psalm 139 has some verses in it that reminds us that no matter where we are and what we are doing God the Father is always there. His presence in even the "bad" situations are not to judge us but to help us find our way out. Look at these verses...

I was asked by the CEO of the Treatment Center I went to this summer to Compose a CD for her. I am working on it. This song is about a personal experience of my own. Introduction: EMOTIONAL REPRESSION TO A REALIZATION OF THEIR EXISTENCE AND THEN RECOGNIZING THAT EMOTIONS HAVE A PURPOSE AND...

This poem was given to me from a therapist who took interest in me. She had challenged me on an issue. I worked on it but to lighten the mood I wrote a super silly poem to her. She responded with the following poem to me. It knocked my socks off. I never expected anything so moving. She...