在自残之前，花点时间想一想
这个周末，我摔了一跤。我真的摔倒在人行道上，现在我的右脸有最难看的痂和淤青。我摔倒在水泥地上后，浑身疼痛。显然，当涉及到任何意外刮伤、割伤或擦伤时，这是正常的。然而，由于某种原因，我过去自残的记忆我突然想到了。我开始想，“为什么我要给自己造成这么大的身体上的痛苦，只是为了分散注意力和逃避?痛。”
停止和思考自我伤害的冲动
自残者出于不同的原因割伤、烧伤或抠伤，而我自残的原因主要是分心和逃避。然而，这种愉悦感只会持续很长一段时间，那么当这种感觉消失后，你该怎么办呢?你后悔吗?失望呢?愤怒吗?
在这个视频博客中，我讨论了我们在自残之前应该如何思考。三思而后行适用于生活中许多不同的事情。事实上，一旦你知道我为什么摔了个稀里哗啦，你就知道我为什么要三思而后行了。然而，在你做出决定之前要三思，因为几天、几个月或几年之后，那道伤疤可能仍然困扰着你．
有时，伤疤会让我们想起战胜战争。然而，有些伤疤就是不值得那些回忆。
APA的参考
Aline J.(2013年8月27日)。在你自残之前花点时间想一想，健康的地方。2022年8月19日从//www.5wetown.com/blogs/speakingoutaboutselfinjury/2013/08/self-harm-and-thinking-before-you-act上检索到
作者:詹妮弗·艾琳·格雷厄姆
对不起，我知道你受伤了。我明白你的意思。但对我来说，四十年前，我二十出头，第一次割伤了自己。我看着血从我的手上流出，那一刻我平静了下来。我做了可怕的噩梦，回想起我生命中糟糕的时光。我结婚了，有两个儿子。为什么我现在才想起这件事!我很生气，这不公平。我把它埋得太深了，以至于我知道，当我对我爱的那个了不起的yg男人说“我愿意”的那天，我再也不用感到内心的肮脏了。我想说的是，当这一切终于大白于天下，潘多拉的盒子被打开时，我的内心崩溃了。 The ugliness and self-hate wasexposed. I had to cleanse myself of the filth inside. So I started cutting in a ritual way. I would disassociate, the cuts had to bleed enough for me to feel clean. Twice, it almost took my life. My last cut was at 30 yrs.old.I woke up in the hospital once again from to deep of an injury. My psychiatrist was standing at the end of my bed and told me my husband has given his consent to take my medical decisions making away from me and now a judge had sentence me to 90 days in patient therapy program.I know it saved my life. Now I am 60yrs old,yes my arms and thighs have terrible scars on them. I don't dwell on why I have these scars. I am a survivor of a terrible time in my life which few people who as you say self harm survive. I now talk to the yg girls who are self-injuries themselves. My story, my arms show them that you don't have to do this to get well.It also shows them these scars never go away!! even after thirty years.