Posted by pegasus on March 1, 2005, at 10:24:14
In reply to Feeling OK... But cutting sounds satisfying. WHY?, posted by Shame on March 1, 2005, at 9:16:05
I agree with Bent. If you are seeing a pyschotherapist who is not a psychiatrist, then they should respect your feeling about medications. I've never had a therapist who forced me to do anything in particular with regard to meds. Although some of them definitely had their own opinions about it that did not always jive with mine, they were very respectful of my final decisions.
I've had good luck with meds helping reduce cutting. But I think that even more important was having someone that would respectfully listen to me, and help me work out why I wanted to cut. For me, a lot of what the cutting is about was a form of communication - maybe only to myself. I've had a fair amount of invalidation in my life, and putting that pain on the outside was my way of validating my own pain. When I found other ways to do that (through therapy), the urge to cut really tapered off.
I wish you a lot of luck with this struggle. It's a hard one, but worth it, in my opinion. I am really glad to finally be able to see myself as worth protecting from pain and agression, even self inflicted.
pegasus
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