Feelings Don't Last Forever. Scars do.

Negative feelings almost always overpower positive ones, and sometimes when you are feeling really low, the negative feelings can be so powerful that you can’t see how you will ever feel differently. Something I have learnt over the last few months is just how quickly the way you feel can change. One minute I can feel happy and the next, terrible. There very often is no middle ground and it can be scary when your mood changes so rapidly. The same goes for my urges to self-harm. I can feel no urge at all, and then all of a sudden, an urge so strong it is virtually impossible not to act on it. A piece of advice I was once given is, when you feel the urge to self-harm wait for 15 minutes and the likelihood is that the urge will have lessened or will have gone completely in that time. 15 minutes can feel like one hell of a long time when you are battling with really strong destructive urges, but it is worth trying to wait it out because feelings don’t last forever, but scars do.