When you feel the need to cut snap the rubber band until the urge subsides.
Rubber band self harm scars.
I was just curious are there any downsides to this method as an example i have been doing this for a week now and i have gotten a bruise on my hand it probably isn t from me snapping the rubber band but.
It s a physiological thing.
You didn t even go that deep that s what i keep thinking to myself.
Draw on yourself with sharpie draw pretend wounds where you want to cut.
Besides finding distraction techniques alternatives such as these rather condescending both these methods still use pain to deal with overwhelming feelings or whatever other reason people self harm.
For me it s a quick fix.
Find a thick rubber band and put it around your wrist.
In that case i get even angrier at myself amp.
Other terms such as cutting and self mutilation have been used for any self harming behavior regardless of suicidal intent.
Other forms include behaviour such as burning.
The social worker who went through the dbt handout with me suggested the rubber band method too.
I started off so so ashamed of my scars but i ve come to see them as just another thing on my body that i need to learn to accept.
I wish i wasn t like this.
I ve heard about wearing a rubber band on your wrist as an alternative.
I used to cut i stopped for a few months but had to start self harming again.
It makes me want to cut more.
Alice in the past i have self mutilated and recently there has been a lot of added stress to my life.
I know that snapping a rubber band on ur wrist is a good way to help you out of self harm if you do it not too hard but that s not the case for me.
So did my school counsellor in year 12.
Obviously you didn t self harm or you weren t a real self harmer.
I actually get frustrated that the rubber band won t leave lasting scars.
The most common form of self harm is using a sharp object to cut one s skin.
I guess it s a 50 50 thing then.
One day at school me and my friend thought that it was a good idea to draw self harm scars on our wrist.
I pull the band back so far to the point where it almost breaks and i snap it againt my wrist.
I do this probably 5 times on each wrist multiple times a day.
So far i m doing well only 1 cut in the past 14 or so days.
Am an asshole who once thought self harm is being selfish and unnecessary to do got to the point where i would self harm my self and finally understood.
Self harm also known as self injury is defined as the intentional direct injuring of body tissue done without the intent to commit suicide.
Does a rubber band on wrist count as self harm.
