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Support, Information & Expression: Daily life with self-injury

Do you know what it's like?

Do any of you know what it's like? To hurt so bad at night that you grit your teeth? That it hurts so bad emotionally that it almost hurts physically...that you feel you're going to throw up. That you are hysterical and would do anything to get rid of it?

Do any of you know what it's like? To pound your fists against a brick wall desperately, hysterically? Choking on your sobs, with tears streaming down your face? To clutch your arms around yourself as your stomach turns and you choke on your every breath? ....as you lie on your bed, willing yourself to die. Anything to end the pain.

Do any of you know what it's like? To turn the music up so loud, but the pain is so intense nothing can block it out? Nothing can block it out? Nothing can block out your pain...or the fighting or the screaming...nothing can block out anything...

Do you know what it's like?

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