Supposedly one in four people will at some stage in their lives use self-harm as a coping mechanism. Ok XXX Unfortunately I did slip up and cut a handful of times after that but I haven’t done it in about four years now. She didn’t need my problems as well as her own. But let’s face it, there was no way she could help me. To be perfectly honest, sometimes I don’t know how I got through it all. I’m just glad that I did. It’s very common, yet nobody talks about it. That evening I cut my hand in an attempt to shock her into quitting. Thankfully I have no obvious lasting physical reminders of it. There was no way I wanted it to get that bad that I had to put someone else
