Avatar Posted by Different010 127 days ago (Question)
Ok so sometimes I will get this strange feeling like I'm moving too extremely slow. And my mind keeps yelling at me to speed up. Now normally when this happens I don't let myself talk because my voice sounds panicy. It passes after some amount of time, at the very most I think it's lasted up to an hour and a half. From what I can remember it's only been happening for a year or two if that, but I'm not sure. I've tried to find ways to make it go away but nothing seems to really work. The past two times I would cut but it didn't seem to do anything

[({Sometimes I self harm. It started three years ago(6th grade). And back then i would just get the math thing you use to draw circles with and scratch my arm when I had gotten into a fight with my mom but from last year(8th grad) I had accidentally broken a lamp in my room saved a few peices of glass and used that every once in a while, when i was really really sad or mad, and then this year(summer after 9th grad) I started using razors.}])

Now with the SI I don't do it often, throuout the past 3 years I've maybe done it 20 times if that. I don't feel the need that I have to do it, it just happens sometimes.

Thanks for the advice I hope it helps
~Different010


Answers

Written by Edahn 127 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Answer: + -

If it's just a random, critical voice and you're able to recognize that it isn't in charge and is just panicking, then I think you've already solved your dilemma. You've taken away all of it's power and reduced it to just a few noises in your head. We all have that. In time, I think it will go away, but even if it doesn't, then just ignore it.

The cutting has me worried about you, because it tells me that you need some better ways to deal with difficult feelings and experiences. I can offer some of my own ways (music, calligraphy, writing) but sometimes we just feel sad and that's okay. Like the panicky voice in your head, it eventually goes away too. It's not the best feeling in the world, but the more you face it, the more familiar it is and the less scary.

If you are still cutting after a few months, I'd really hope that you seek a psychologist to help give you more tools to deal with painful feelings in addition to the ideas I provided above.

I'm counting on you!

Edahn

Written by Clyde 117 days ago Rating: 0 | Rate Answer: + -

I definitely think you need to discuss this with a therapist. You keep asking us, and we tell you what you should do, but I really dont think you wanna hear what we have to say.

You definitely need to see them, and listen to what they say.

Best,

Clyde


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