Struggling with Self-Harm Despite Therapy

Unfortunately therapy takes awhile to start working. The best advice I can give you to help stop the habit of cutting yourself is to make a little reward sheet. Find something you want. Whatever you want. Toy, book, food, tattoo, something you can hold or see. I suggest you make it $20 or more. Put the object and the price on a sheet of paper and every day you don't cut yourself add a tally mark. No punishment if you do. You just don't get a tally mark that day. Once you have enough tally marks that it equals the dollar amount. Go buy/ get that item. And keep doing it. Bonus points if you increase the dollar amount. You'll notice that you won't want to cut because you want your thing.

I don’t know if this is helpful but whenever I feel like self harming I try to listen to music but with noise canceling headphones or any headphones that are just loud enough to surround myself in the noise. I do this so that I can zone out my inner thoughts. It usually works for me. I have a really hard time being alone with my thoughts so I usually do that or watch something I find funny on YouTube.

No No No sweetheart do not cut. I know it's not that easy. You can message me anytime you just want to talk😥🙏 It's good to have people you can be honest with.