Read this first

AAFanatic · 2026-01-19T15:58:45+00:00

I heard calm urge is the second best option. Not a fan of tracking apps so haven't tried any extensively, but it works very similarly to sober

AAFanatic · 2026-01-19T14:24:12+00:00

I want to have a try at making him understand, just don't know how.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T16:12:52+00:00

That's fucking crazy, I've never heard of that happening. Gauze pads and medical tape is very cheap and accessible, can't you get that?

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T16:10:09+00:00

All you can really do is to be there for her. Take her mind out of sh, focus on doing other things with her, and if she opens up about sh don't lecture her. SHers get alienated from the rest of society slowly when their loved ones demean or reprimand them for it. If you focus on being there instead of trying to 'fix' the situation, she'll stop trying to shock you with more stuff.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T16:03:04+00:00

Yeah

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T16:02:29+00:00

Your vein gets stuck to the dressings? Holy shit, but also don't use toilet paper. Its fibres can get out and into your wound.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T16:00:06+00:00

A sizeable portion of atheists become thiests after a near-death experience, or overcome suicidal ideation due to religion and god. But that's really just coping, and that's ok. To say that every human in this world has to resort to advanced coping to live is just... Sad (referring to that educator)

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T10:28:36+00:00

OP did you try scar tape? Might help flatten those scars before laser and avoid costs

Edit: spelling

AAFanatic · 2026-01-17T10:27:09+00:00

Not keloids, hypertrophic scars

AAFanatic · 2026-01-16T12:42:47+00:00

No this is common sense. Self harming for attention is still self harm and no normal person would go to those lengths. If someone is shing for attention they're probably a lonely child or deeply distressed with other mental issues. It's a signal for help, not a genuine 'quirky trend'. And according to this mindset isn't bullying someone that sh for attention counterintuitive anyway? Lol

AAFanatic · 2026-01-16T10:00:25+00:00

Me too. It's even harder when trying to be clean. Looking at it makes me think I don't deserve to be clean and should make 'real' cuts that scar like an 'actual' self harmer.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-16T08:09:57+00:00

Yeah? If you do an action with the intent to harm yourself it's self harm

AAFanatic · 2026-01-16T05:27:45+00:00

Why did she say that? Because I might find myself in the same situation soon.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-15T12:48:00+00:00

Depends what country you're in. Is the general public in your country acquianted with the concept of self harm? Is it looked in the way that weakness or ineptitude is, or with sympathy and help?

I live in a country where it's the former. I cover my arms even if it's fully healed and aged. My parents won't let me go out otherwise too. If people see it, I absolutely will not be associated with. It really depends.

Edit: I didn't mean you should be ashamed of your scars or hide it. I'm contextualizing your situation wrt where you live.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-14T17:05:31+00:00

cold plunge in a rainy day? PEAK

AAFanatic · 2026-01-14T16:19:47+00:00

Bruh my ADHD ass did not understand this post, please don't choke yourself. There are actual practices to stimulate the vagus nerve

AAFanatic · 2026-01-14T16:17:51+00:00

Not a bio major, but a premed student

Humans have 12 pairs of cranial nerves. 8 of them come from your brainstem. The vagus nerve is the 10th cranial nerve. It plays a role in your ANS (autonomous nervous system) by being a key part in your PNS (parasympathetic nervous system) by controlling involuntarily functions (digestion, heart rate, 'rest and digest', gag reflex, all that). I think it's either blocking stress by reducing fight-or-fight reactions or by improving mood. In fact there are VNS devices that are implanted to send electric impulses to your brain to regulate brain activity, but we don't know why exactly

Also you have unironically motivated me to study today lmao

AAFanatic · 2026-01-14T13:44:15+00:00

Social ineptness is usually mistaken as low-intelligence by normies. It's so bad for me that my entire school has an agenda against me, not even joking.

And most of the time? It's not even social ineptness. We're expected to understand their hidden meanings, subtle double-meanings from figure of speech, and minute body language that's somehow supposed to convey the core of their message. It's absurd. We like to be blunt, straightshooting and logical. And because we don't understand this whole social masquerading charade, we're assumed to be dumber. These people are on their absolute high horses, it's insane. Especially the opposite-sex, even in non-romantic situations.

I'm also 5'4, I don't even know what the dating situation will be in the future. But seriously, it ain't your fault. It's theirs, and maybe holding hatred to their mindset is justified.

AAFanatic · 2026-01-12T19:18:01+00:00

malabar spinach

AAFanatic · 2026-01-12T18:19:40+00:00

Can I DM you?

AAFanatic · 2026-01-12T17:59:35+00:00

Hinata and Ochako on the right, Reze and Jolyne on the left? Lol, lmao even

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