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SHA #2: "Safe Plan" for people with self-harm issue

Nagandrzlvn February 8th

Hi fighter!

Today, I will sharing about how we can control our self-harm destructive habbits into a safety plan if you feel a sensation of negative emotion and you have a desire to do that! These harm minimization strategies aim to either replace self-harm with a “safer” proxy behavior, or to reduce the medical severity of self-harm.

1. Sensation Proxies, strategy to stop hurting yourself by doing something else that feels similar but less harmful. There is snapping elastic bands against the skin or squeezing ice cubes.

2. Process Proxies, strategy to stop hurting yourself by doing something else that gives you a similar feeling or experience, but is less dangerous. There is drawing red lines on the skin in the places you would otherwise cut or made a butterfly in your hand and name it by people you love or your bias.

3. Harm reduction, strategy to make sure that if you hurt yourself in the same way, it won’t cause as much damage to your health. There is considering the location of injuries to minimize potential adverse medical consequences (and the provision of basic anatomical information to facilitate this), using sterile blades.

4. 
Damage limitation, Strategy about how to take care of injuries. There is wound care (promoting healing and reducing the risk of infection), self-management of less medically severe injuries, appropriate help-seeking.


I got the sense there is difficult to minimization a self-harm because it's sounds like habbits that daily we use to release our emotion when we in the not good condition. I believe that us can do that by a lil step like using this tips that more "safety" or if you in condition like struggiling it much and have a medical condition may you consider a profesional help! Cheers up cause your not alone there is our community might be can help you!


Reference:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13811118.2019.1624669?fbclid=PAAabLvgSSLujvPOeLN75y2QgGiiz3VWzJWH_WP6yor2X6qRpZCeFMePqroRM
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@Nagandrzlvn

How thoughtful of you. Thank you for sharing!💛

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Nagandrzlvn OP February 10th

@Sunisshiningandsoareyou you're welcome!

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versatileSquare2797 February 10th

Thanks for sharing

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Nagandrzlvn OP February 13th

@versatileSquare2797 your welcome!😊

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@Nagandrzlvn Is it safe to hold ice cubes until they have melted completely? Like you take them straight out of the fridge (even in winter and now when it's cold here, around 5 degrees celcius) and hold them until they have turned completely to water?

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Shadow March 11th

@TheMadHatterWasHere 

Generally, it's considered "safer" than some other common forms of self-harm, but risk is always involved. It's not a substitute to self-harm, rather, it is an alternative method that is used as a harm reduction strategy. I'm not a medical professional by any means so I can't tell you exactly how safe or unsafe it is. However, considering it's common for individuals to take ice baths, submerging their entire bodies in ice water for probably as long or longer than it would take to melt a single ice cube in your hand, I do believe it is generally effective in harm reduction. I also believe it should be kept in mind that too much exposure to extreme cold can be harmful. If you keep melting one ice cube after another for an hour without any breaks, you are more likely to hurt yourself.


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@Shadow Noted.

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Nagandrzlvn OP March 14th

@TheMadHatterWasHere Hi, thanks for asking. I agree with @Shadow statement and thanks for sharing that thought it helps and give me a new insight. But @TheMadHatterWasHere if you feel like you want to do that habit on your mind and if you find that you want that sensation so I can release my emotion, you can do hold those ice in your hand. I think there is many way that you can use ice to release your emotion sensation like using it with hand towel or the same then you squish that, put your knees in bucket of ice for a minute or many way that you can do with ice. But the things that might be concern that habit wanna turn off it slowly, so you can give yourself like a challenge to minimize the time hold an ice for a minute in day each day or week (give limit) cause if you do that in a long term with a long duration it will be hurt you. There is it for me, i hope this is helpful. 

I have a gentle reminder that you are not alone, here we are 7 cups community to provide support whit kinda things. So if you need a community support you can see in our group community that match with your topic, break a leg!

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Heather225 March 11th

@Nagandrzlvn


"Hi fighter" 🥺 what a lovely sentiment. i'd not heard the term sensation proxies before. thanks for this helpful informative post!

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Nagandrzlvn OP March 14th

@Heather225 Thanks for your support at my post! I hope those post are helpfull!

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