How to deal with self-harm alone?

It's a long gruelling battle and oftentimes if you deal with it alone, it will only ever cycle back. In my experience, i've always dealt with it alone and if you have to, it's terrible but you can break the cycle if you set certain goals for yourself and just know that you may fail, you probably will fail, but one hour of being clean might become two hours and two hours to a week, and so on. Any goal you reach is a good one and if you relapse, that's not a failure at all.

Remind yourself that you don't have to harm yourself in order to get the feeling you are recieving from it... you can get a rush by exercising or sports, and you can feel emotions by reaching out aand talking to someone, preferably someone who has experienced what you have.

Try to find another coping mechanism for when you feel like selfharming is the answer. When you have thos impulsive thoughts and feelings we tend to do the most quick things to cope, to escape. But the quick things are usually what hurt us the most. Try some of these things when you feel like self harming: Take a deep breath, say stop and just take a second to try and think of what you are doing. Have a list of things to distract yourself from it - paint, talk to a family member/friend, come on here and chat for a while, do breathing exercises, paint your nails, go for a walk. Hurtin yourself is never the solution and how hard it may sound and I know you don't care about this in the moment - but you will regret it, stop it now while you can. I love you

I personally feel like getting things out helps a lot. I often have a problem with directly facing my feelings, so I do it in a more abstract and lyrical way. Just writing down how you are feeling as if talking to someone might help too.

Try to distract yourself - either with music, or writing, or venting to a friend. Get out the feelings in other ways, rather than out on yourself. Because that never helps in the end.

Try and think of positive things and make a daily diary on how you are doing. Try to release your feelings in a different way such as poems and music.

You should never have to deal with it alone. Even if you feel like you cannot get support from the people around you, you can always get help through online communities.

You have to find destractions and even if you do slip up once in a while you have to realize it’s not the end of the world.

Try listening to music, try thinking something else, try different things till you find something that works for you.

As a person who once former self harmed, I can say that it's really hard to get through. So, first of all, you don't have to do it alone! There are doctors, therapists, ect. But, the question literally says "alone" so here's some advice for that. 1) Taking it day by day can be really helpful. Think "If I can get through today without self harming, then I can be really proud of myself." And then do the same thing the next day. You can mark your time as a "clean" person on a calendar or in your head. After a month goes by, tell yourself "Now I just have to get through the next month." And once day, you can look back and see self harm as a distant memory. 2) It is 100% okay to be proud of yourself. It doesn't mater how long you have been clean. Take a minute to celebrate, pat yourself on the back. Whether its been 1 day, 1 week, or a month, you did it! And its your right to be proud of yourself. 3) Having a positive mindset. Sometimes, the urges will be too hard to overome. You ight relapse. Never ever ever tell yourself "Because I cut once, I should do it as much as I want. I already ruined all my hard work so it doesn't matter." You might hurt yourself once, put you can still stop there an tell yourself "No more!" You are strong and you will get through this.