I am a sponsor!

So excited!! The girl I'm sponsoring and I are still trying to figure out the finer points kinda a learn by doing thing. This is only the second day, but I'm ecstatic!!

Sponsor Responses

I've actually gotten some good responses since Tuesday night about the sponsorship thing on RYL. I'm pretty excited. I'm really hoping enough people get on board with it for it to actually work.
You can follow the thread here.

tools of the trade.

Scissors. Knives of various sharpness. Nail Clippers. Pieces of glass.
I also used these too. Disposable. Tiny. They come in cds/dvds and have a metal razorlike strip between two foil ones inside the white plastic. Sometimes I was that desperate, that I would use anything.

I think this page nicely details the urge, and also gives information about why and how to beat it.
This page where people who have fallen to self-injury share what methods help them personally to overcome the urge.

I think cutters should have sponsors, just like alcoholics.
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More on the Sponsorship idea. I've posted a couple of threads about it on RYL. I'm hoping to get some responses. I think it could be a great thing. Those interested could exchange emails, websites, or telephone numbers for quick contact when they feel like cutting or any other SI. When they feel the urge, they could contact their sponsor and their sponsor could talk them through it and help them to overcome the urge and to stay strong by offering advice, encouragement, and distractions.

I really hope this takes off.

Wintergirls

This is an amazing book. It focuses mainly on anorexia, but the main character also suffers self-injury. In one of the last few chapters, she gets into an argument with her mother and her mother asks her why she does it. And also tells her, you don't stop because you don't WANT to stop. And that just really got to me. I was infuriated with the way the chapter was while I was reading it. Just the things the mother said. You never understand unless you've been through that. Regardless, It was an amazing book and I would suggest it to anyone.

Recover your life is an excellent forum/chat/website for people who have, and still do, harm themselves.

Layout

There is a layout that I want Here. Annnnd when I download it, upload it to blogger and then use it, It doesn't work. Anyone know how to help me?

How does everyone feel about the Samsungs solstice, strive, and sunburst?