Anti SI (Trigger?)

[xlolokinsx]

I have a new method of anti SI that has kept me from cutting since April 14. That may not sound like long, but it's a start.

Everytime you are even slightly tempted to SI, think, "Satan, Satan is making me do this." Simple, I know, but for me it is effective, partly because I sometimes see SI as a constructive alternative, as strange as that may sound. I think it's better to hurt myself than someone else with my emotions. However, thinking of how SI is a temptation from Satan in repulsive enough that, no matter how much I want to SI, I can't.

Don't know if this will help anybody else, but it helped me a lot, so I thought I'd pass it on.

 

[ChristInAction]

thanks for that.
I've been told a few times to try & just say Jesus over & over b'coz even saten has to obay him

 

[livingforGod135]

I have a new method of anti SI that has kept me from cutting since April 14. That may not sound like long, but it's a start.

Everytime you are even slightly tempted to SI, think, "Satan, Satan is making me do this." Simple, I know, but for me it is effective, partly because I sometimes see SI as a constructive alternative, as strange as that may sound. I think it's better to hurt myself than someone else with my emotions. However, thinking of how SI is a temptation from Satan in repulsive enough that, no matter how much I want to SI, I can't.

Don't know if this will help anybody else, but it helped me a lot, so I thought I'd pass it on.

first of all i have to congratulate u on being cut free since april 14, thats a great achievement =D

this is a really good way of avoiding giving in... i know i do something similar... when i feel bad remind myself that satan wants me to feel bad and hurting myself, to pull me away from God... that just makes me all the more determined to beat this =D

i also used to think that it was better to hurt myself than others... but remember thats only your view if you were to ask the people who care about you you would find that they think the exact opposite

Laura

 

[figtvcmpta]

im a rebellious type... i mean, i still struggle with rebelling against God's ways like that. it probably wouldnt help much at all with me. but that is an excellent thought. hope it works for some others too.

 

[LilRomanianChristFollower]

Part of the thing that makes me really not want to is when I see the cutting in others. I saw this one girl who cut really bad and it made me sick. It def discouraged me for a while from cutting myself. HOwever, the only way i was able to get free of it and take control was by repentence and God's deliverance.

 

[trying2survive09]

Great advice and totally right on. I pray when I get the urge...mostly for strength to resist and such. Then I remember the other times I've won the battle (so to speak). It helps...well at least it helps me. And I also do the whole "this is satan, not me...I don't want to do this" So far so good, and it's been a year and almost 5 months.

 

[mariachigirl]

Amen for that kind of advice! The easier to remember, the better...