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lilygrace

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i wish i could stop self harm. i thought God freed me of this but i dont want to say he didnt but i still do it....
seems i cycle from something to another.
i realize i can name what triggered me now.
 
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i wish i could stop self harm. i thought God freed me of this but i dont want to say he didnt but i still do it....
seems i cycle from something to another.
i realize i can name what triggered me now.

Prayers for God to give you the strength to command the "triggers" / "temptations" to depart from you.

Glory to God,
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i wish i could stop self harm. i thought God freed me of this but i dont want to say he didnt but i still do it....
seems i cycle from something to another.
i realize i can name what triggered me now.

wish I knew what to say to help where you no longer self harm. I can only share with you that I can relate in my bondage and torment was panic attacks and I also thought He had freed me from them. I couldn’t remember the last time I had a panic attack. Then this past weekend I had to call an ambulance due to heart pain and high blood pressure which I never have. I was so scared and thought it was a heart attack. After all the test...they kept mentioning anxiety, stress...panic attack possibly. Not at all want to disrupt your thread but only want you to know you are not alone in feelings of disappointment or from questioning of ‘why God? I thought this was healed?’ ...all that said, do not know if this will help...but one thing that stood out is where you said you know now what triggers the self harm. Is this new knowing what triggers it? I don’t know but maybe if this is new, then maybe God IS (working still to Heal) in your coming to see what triggers the self harm?
 
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i wish i could stop self harm. i thought God freed me of this but i dont want to say he didnt but i still do it....
seems i cycle from something to another.
i realize i can name what triggered me now.




If it really is serious you might want to go see a doctor. Hugs and prayers for you dear sister.
 

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May Abba Yah Breathe His Holy Breath deeply into every aspect of your being...heart, soul, will, emotions, imagination, body, etc..and raise you up into the Heavenly places in Yahshua ha Mashiach. Amen.

I've found, in my own life, that somewhere in my childhood the idea that things had to go wrong periodically, if I was to maintain the norm shown to me.

I think we naturally try to achieve balance and levelity (that a word?), but if ours was never correctly established or if there has been a mixed message, causing a teeter totter effect...

I'm beginning to see that it is okay if all is well with me...I'm walking in His Victory...His Paradigm Shift...where we can walk on water...and fly...and who knows what more wonderful things are to come!

Yah bless and shalom sister.
 
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Btw I like the quote in your avatar pic., reminds me of something...
 
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I mean, for me...if I'm to go through some harm, let it be from outside of myself, and let me not lose sight that He Is In Control, so it is for the ultimate good...to test me, to humble me, whatever need be.

But, I'm done hurting myself with hope to die alcohol/drug abuse and other destructive behavior.
 

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i too pick scabs. i guess it can be a form of self harm. when im picking any scabs or imperfection bumps, i tend to notice increased anxiety in myself

Ya know when my grandchildren got to be about 6, I went and bought some fancy band-aids...Teenage Ninja Turtles...Cars.... Transformers...some big cloth ones for bigger cuts.

When I was a kid, my friends and I had band-aids on us most of the time and we would show off our war wounds. But kids now a days do not play as hard and have little use for band-aids. :(
 
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how long have you been free? if okay to ask. there was a time i thought i was fully done which was recent. but i wasnt.
Nice to meet you lilygrace.

A little over 20 years. I'm not really sure why I did it. It was never for attention. It just felt like a compulsion.
 
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