When ever I see someone wearing a long sleeve shirt or a wrist band of some time I always wonder if they are like me and have cuts/scars on their arms. Then I find myself looking at them more for clues that will let me know. It makes me think, " have I ever payed attention to them before" and I try to remember days before if they had wore things over their arms. If later I find out that they had cut I feel bad for not just asking them about it and telling them that it will be ok and that they are not alone. Its true. Eventually everything will be ok, not perfect though. Nothing can be perfect. And we are definitely not alone. Many people hurt themselves and we all seem to be there for each other. Its because we understand each other and can relate each others problems to our own. I think talking to another self injurer is better then a therapist because they don't really understand what we are going through so they couldn't possibly know how to help. They only know what they've read in the books which is about the stereotypical self injurer and that doesn't help us because every self injurer is different.

I don't exactly know where I was going with that but what ever you want to make of it it ok with me. Now that I am trying my hardest to stop cutting I have been more open about self injury. I'm not really sure why I am suddenly more open about it or if stopping really has anything to do with it and I don't really know if its a good thing. I guess the more open I am about the more people I can help with their problems and try to help them stop too.