Alternatives To Cutting.
Posting on web boards, and answering others’ posts
Thinking about how you DON’T want scars for the summer
Read a book about anything.
Take a walk.
Feed animals, teach them tricks.
Look at pictures from your childhood.
Rearange/clean your room.
Paint anything.
Sing loudly.
Make fun of things if it makes you feel better.
Plan your wedding.
Draw, even if you suck. Draw clothes. Faces. Bubble letter.
Play with your pets if you have any.
Dress up. Look silly, or just get into lots of outfits and see what looks nice.
Watch any disney movie, horror movie, anything.
Masturbate. x)
Call a friend and ask for company.
Shoot rubber bands across the room.
Write letters to all your friends, everyone who you love, hate, lust.
Write out scenes of things that may never even happen, but you would like to happen.
Try to learn how to play an instrument.
Finger paint.
Fold up pieces of toilet paper or something until it’s pretty thick, place it over where you’d normally cut, and cut that instead. (if cutting is how you self harm)
Take 4-7 socks, depending on their thickness, and put it over your wrist or on like you would with a normal sock. Take a razor, knife, scissors, glass, etc, and cut the socks.
Take a hot bath or shower until the water gets cold.
Make art. Writing, photography, drawing, or digital art.
Go anon and say sweet things to people on Tumblr.
Play with fire if you can do it safely. Instead of burning yourself, burn paper.
Cover yourself with band-aids where you want to cut.
De-tangling yarn or necklaces.
Go to Google translate and translate lyrics to about 5 different languages and then back to English. It won’t make sense.
Make silly faces in the mirror.
Write about happy old memories, or ones you wish to create in the future.
Go to the store. Even if you don’t have money, spend the whole time smelling hair products. Who cares if that’s weird?
Look at nature, pick flowers, make snowmen, have snowball fights.
Dance.
Paint your toenails, finger nails, whatever. Its distracting.
Put a cold ice cube on your wrist/skin/where you cut.
Play a video game.
Draw all over yourself, scribble on paper. It keeps your hands busy.
Be destructive of something else, paper, cardboard, old box, etc.
Music of course. Song suggestions:
Running In The Rain - Hinder
Hold On - Abandon
Hold On - Good Charlotte
Never Give IN - Black Veil Brides
I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin
A Better Place, A Better Time - Streetlight Manifesto.
(More music here.)
Play with tape
1800 SUICIDE
Go on Omegle - sometimes its a laugh, but sometimes a downer, so be careful there.
Go on the forums on sixbillionsecrets.com.
Think of everything that makes you smile. Every little thing. A sunny day, a smile your way.
Imagine that the skin you are about to cut is the skin of someone you care for.
I’m here for anyone. I love you guys, and you all deserve to smile and be happy. Hope is happiness <3 im-just-a-little-unwell.tumblr.com
Help Hotlines: http://www.pamf.org/teen/hotlines.html
Really sweet people on here that will talk to you: (If you want to be added to this list, let me know :3)
http://saveliveswithallies.tumblr.com/
slitwristsandbrokenhearts.tumblr.com
http://0urlittlesecret.tumblr.com/
Just going to reblog this every once in awhile to remind everyone it’s here, and if you want to go on this list, let me know.
ALSO: Possible trigger warning for anyone listed on here, some are struggling as well.
