Championing a Different View – Self-Harm “Before”

Championing a Different View - Self-Harm "Before" 1

Are more people really staring at my self-harm scars? A brief video on my thoughts and fears before going to the water park.  Please stay tuned for a later post with commentary on what I discovered about people looking at my self-harm scars at the waterpark. Followup: The followup post can be found here.

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Tales from the visits with Mother-In-Law

I went out of town for a few days.  Not a vacation.  More like looking after recently widowed Mother-In-Law.  I love her dearly, but she came back with me for a week, and I’m already nervous.  My dissociation has heightened to an unmeasurable degree.  I don’t play nicely with others, and I don’t want to […]

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I can probably thing of one second of my life where I felt free, not tied down by the rules and laws of whatever vice I am about to give to. I look at the girls in my dining hall at school and none “look” like they cut, burn, or have an eating disorder. I’m […]

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A picture is worth a thousand hateful, ugly words

I’m sitting here dissociating like hell. I feel them right behind my eyes. Heaven help me. I hope this post makes sense. When I was importing my photos to my computer, I saw some my husband, D. had taken of me before and after I went into residential treatment. I almost gagged. There is a […]

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