Start a chain-link and add a link to it everyday you don’t self-harm, hang it up if possible
to make this you need scissors, paper (colorful is best), and glue/tape

to make a chain link you cut a strip of paper and tape/glue the ends together

in order to attach them together close it around the previous one

an interesting way to do it is to have 2 colors of paper, for each day you have an urge but do not self harm put up one color and for every day you don’t even have an urge put up the other...

Whenever you feel the need to self harm (in anyway) write down that you did self harm on paper. Tell yourself that you self-harmed.  Write as much as you can about the self-harming you “did”   over time it becomes truthful to you, and you start to believe that you really did self-harm. This is do to a subconscious train of thought. We only know the stuff we know because we were taught it. Like that “it hurts to get a shot” if you tell yourself enough (as well as tell others even ) tha...

• Say “I’ll self harm in fifteen minutes if I still want to” and keep going for periods of fifteen minutes until the urge fades
• Color your hair
• Count up to ten getting louder until you are screaming
• Sing
• Complete something you’ve been putting off
• Take up a new hobby
• Make a cup of tea
• Tell and laugh at jokes
• Play solitaire
• Count really high
• Surf the net for funny things
• Make as many words out of your full name as possible
• Count random things like tiles or sports
• Search ridiculous things on the web
• Col...

Take a container of any kind and feel it with happy memories

notes, pictures, notes to yourself about memories

fill it with your hopes and dreams

fill it with the name/picture of every person you care about

fill it with reasons to stay strong

fill it with phone numbers of people you can talk to

fill it with inspirational quotes

fill it with anything and everything that is meaningful/important/happy/inspirational to you

when your feeling down, pull it out and look through it.