Guide To Recovery

Guide to Recovery

Below is a link to a google doc I made on my experience with dealing with self-harm and how I work every day to recover. It is in no way a complete guide, nor am I a professional in any way. It's just my experience. If you have anything you believe should be added, feel free to tell me.

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Guide to Recovery from Self-Harm

Guide to Recovery from Self-Harm As someone who has struggled with self-harm for the vast majority of my life, with little to no help in l

I did not include any images in the document, and will not put in any. This is for two reasons. One, because I don't want to trigger anyone. That's the opposite of my goal here. And two, because I'm not good at writing image ID's, and I want to make it easy for those who use screen readers. If you have suggestions regarding the formatting, font size, and other aspects, tell me and I will do what I can to improve this guide.

I mean, why not both?

i feel like people who say "if you have no empathy you're evil" really. don't. know what empathy actually is.

if i remember correctly, people mix up empathy, sympathy, and compassion a LOT, when they're all different – and feeling little to nothing when it comes to either of these isn't bad at all, people just really love being hypocritical lmao

ig the easiest way that i've been able to condense these down [as someone with little to no empathy/sympathy but fairly normal compassion] is :

empathy - being able to "put yourself in someone else's shoes", and feel emotions as if you're in the same position as them

sympathy - being able to understand why they feel a certain way ; can be compared to feeling sorry/happy for someone when something bad/good happens to them

compassion - being able to show [metaphorical] warmth, the want to make someone feel better

idk someone else can prolly explain them in more depth but i just want an easy way to distinguish them. v v v tired but if you feel nothing towards anyone youre not evil youre cool as fuck 🔥🔥🔥

My mom: How are you?

Me: I’m not okay and I’m never going to be and I want to cry. I mean, uhh, I’m alright. Yeah. Totally fine. Just… uhh… tired. Yeah. Tired. That’s all.

I don’t blame her for not being able to understand. I just want to wake up feeling well-rested for once. To feel… alive.

Most of Corpse’s songs hit different when you’re chronically ill. You can feel the pain in his voice, the fear that there might not be a tomorrow. The rage at how unfair it all is.

Especially songs like “Cabin Fever,” “Agoraphobic,” and “Life Waster”