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I scared myself.... this might be a bit triggering

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today a lot of little things built up when my "friend" brittney came down and so i went to my room to cut. it was a dull knife, and i expecrted a few scratches. uh huh. i ended up cutting deeper than i thought... and then i panicked... i ran back to the gym to find someone. i found caleb. i told him my cut was too deep. he ran and got his mom (who is an RN) and she took me to the bathroom.

when we were going there i was still thinking, "this is all a dream; i didn't really see what i saw. she's gonna look at it and be like, your fine." but when i pulled up my pants leg, i was right; it was deep. Nancy said i might have to get stitches. the school nurse was called, someone grabbed me a coat and shoes from the dorm and found megan, who did EVERYTHING she could to be able to go to the hospital to find me since the faculty woudln't let her go with them.... but it was ok; i only needed someone if i was getting stitches, and it turned out that they only had to tape me up.

my dad was comming down anyways, so he got there and told me that the dean was sending me home till i could get evaluated by a shrhink to be able to come back, informing me that i woudln't be able to go on my class trip to boston.

the ironic part is, i just got a counselor down there. they're sending me AWAY from a place where i COULD get an evalution and come back, to a place where it might take a month, and i can't handle a month at home. i will go nuts.

and they were very cruel to me when i left; stood there and watched me pack and yelled at me to hurry up. my sister megan and brittney helped me, but the dean was just so.... cold! and they told me they'd work with me. i hate deans. i hate that school. maybe i just won't come back.

dads promising me to take me to boston with megan on spring break. maybe even washington dc since thats more interesting. i'm trying to be optomistic about missing my class trip. hearing that just made me want to cutr all over again, but i knew that that would just make it worse. plus, what if this happens again?

i've made a decision: i'm going to stop. not for megan, not for jacq, not even for brittney. i'm stopping because is caed myself. the doctor told me that where i was normally cutting on my legs was actually quite close to a main artery. the cut i did make was WAY close..... so yeah. i'm stopping. thinking about it makes me want to puke. i think i'm gonna have nightmares when i think about making that cut.... i can't get it out of my mind!

please pray for me! its going to be a wholel ot worse before i get better, and i have a feeling that these next few days are going to be and i will need prayer or i will loose it. so, yeah. so now i'm at "home."
 

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My beloved friend....the very fact that the cut makes you want to puke is a good thing.....but through it all....remember it.....don't forget it...but forgive yourself...cause you ARE forgiven....don't be upset about it anymore (at least, try not to be)....Jesus' blood is mixed with the blood that flows from your body....You are purified by his blood...Don't let it keep getting to you....In these days...there is still a major stigmatism about cutting and depression...and the thing is...the others just don't understand...they don't know how to act around those who cut, and they don't know what to say or do to make things better for you. They are really afraid....and there are also a lot of legal things involved...they don't want to get in legal trouble....they want you to live....things like that....and so they send you away to save their own tails if not yours too. a student dying on campus is not one of those things that is looked highly on from incoming students....just hang in there...you can make it....if you want to PM me....I've been in the cutting zone....depression, anxiety, burning.....I run the gammot of issues.....physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and otherwise.
 
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LAWise520 said:
My beloved friend....the very fact that the cut makes you want to puke is a good thing.....but through it all....remember it.....don't forget it...but forgive yourself...cause you ARE forgiven....don't be upset about it anymore (at least, try not to be)....Jesus' blood is mixed with the blood that flows from your body....You are purified by his blood...Don't let it keep getting to you....In these days...there is still a major stigmatism about cutting and depression...and the thing is...the others just don't understand...they don't know how to act around those who cut, and they don't know what to say or do to make things better for you. They are really afraid....and there are also a lot of legal things involved...they don't want to get in legal trouble....they want you to live....things like that....and so they send you away to save their own tails if not yours too. a student dying on campus is not one of those things that is looked highly on from incoming students....just hang in there...you can make it....if you want to PM me....I've been in the cutting zone....depression, anxiety, burning.....I run the gammot of issues.....physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and otherwise.

i understand about the legalitites of the sitaution, believe me. i just think they could've been a bit nicer under the circumstances. and i am allowed to come back, just no untill i had a phsyc. eval. that says i'm stable. i understand all right, its just hard, ok?
 
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i can see where the dean is coming from . He is just covering himself. he doesnt know or understand that you are self harming to help yourself feel better. He is scared that you will comit suicide on your trip maybe. Which i know ,and you know isnt why you are self harming. it must still make you feel akward and embarraced etc. There are people here that really do understand self harm and so does Jesus
God Bless
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I'm praying for ya! I'm really sorry your Dean was mean, he had no right, he should have been understanding, not cold, he should have been caring and loving, he should have taken time to check that you were gonna be ok, not shout at you to hurry up, and tell you to get better soon and that he can't wait for you to come back!

It's gonna be hard, I won't lie, but God will be right by your side the whole way through this, and he won't leave ya, when ya try to run, he won't leave, he can't, he's everywhere, and he's in your heart, guiding you and comforting you through this!
 
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