notesforselflove:

This is your daily reminder to not hurt yourself.

If you are thinking about self harm or other self destructive thoughts, please dont give in to the thoughts.  NO matter what you are going through the pain will not solve your problems.  The thoughts may say that hurting yourself will help, but it truly wont.  

I used to self harm.  I used to give in to the thoughts of despair and hopelessness.  I did it because the thoughts claimed it would help.  It did not.  In the end not only did I not feel better, i was now ashamed that I gave in.  I was ashamed that I wasn’t strong enough, wasn’t good enough, wasn’t happy enough.

What I didn’t realize was I was already strong enough and good enough for being human, for being alive.  Sure I wasn’t happy, but self harm wasn’t the way to become happy.  Happiness will come in time and I just had to realize that.

When I stopped depending on self harm to feel better, I actually started feeling better over time.  Sure there are still good days and bad days but now the good days way out number the bad.

So please, don’t give in to the thoughts of self harm.  You deserve so much better.