What is the Butterfly Project?

The butterfly project is a project that can aid people who self harm to resist the urges. A butterfly is drawn in the place/s where the individual self-harms and they can use the butterfly to represent someone they love, then when they feel the need to self harm they can look at the butterfly and try to resist so that they do not harm the butterfly.

When you feel sad and when you feel like giving up because it seems that the pressure is too much and life isn't, its in those times when you need to be brave. Take a pen or marker and draw a butterfly where you would harm yourself or anywhere on your arm or hand or wrist. You can also draw a butterfly on a piece of paper or on someone else and you can dedicate that butterfly to someone. Butterfly means that when this pressure to be perfect and also the sadness got overwhelming you are thought about someone who loves you not inspite of your flaws but because of them, a friend who showed you kindness or your sister who made you laugh. It can be anyone, butterfly is the representation of being brave, of love, of support, of letting the bad thought fly fly away shoo them, its saying to the world "butterfly you". Butterfly project is a coping mechanism for self harmers, and self harming is both on the body and inside the body. So the next time you itch to cut yourself or have bad thoughts just draw a butterfly and think that it exists for one reason; that you still have a lot worth living for. What's important about Butterfly Project is that its positive and there will be a butterfly that you will dedicate to yourself too because you also love yourself.

The butterfly project has helped me immensely in the past in overcoming self harm. The project includes drawing a butterfly on your wrist and, if you would like, naming it someone you love. If you cut/scratch the butterfly dies. In my experience I would draw butterflies on my arm and try to stop self harming for a certain amount of time and then draw another one and repeat the process. It soon got to the point where I would just draw beautiful things on my arm instead of self harming to cope with my anxiety and depression. Surprisingly, this was the only solution to curing my depression and most of my anxiety that worked. At first I doubted it but I was willing to try anything and I'm glad I was able to find the butterfly project.

The Butterfly Project is when you draw a butterfly in permanent marker on places that you self-harm. Then you name the butterflies after someone you love and means a lot to you. If you self-harm where the butterfly is, you hurt the person you named it after.

The butterfly project is where you draw a butterfly on yourself using something like a sharpie, you name it and then you try to refrain from self harm until the butterfly completely fade away

The Butterfly Project has been created for self-harmers who feel they are ready to stop and need the motivation or support to do so. All you have to do is simply draws a butterfly where you'd normally self-harm and, if the butterfly fades without you self-harming, it means it has lived and flown away. However if you do self-harm with the butterfly there; you have to wash it off. If that does happen, you can start again by drawing a new one on. You can name the butterfly after someone supporting you in your recovery, or a friend, for added motivation. You can also draw a butterfly on someone else to show them your support.

When you feel like you want to cut, take a marker, pen, or sharpies and draw a butterfly on your arm or hand. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better. You must let the butterfly fade naturally. NO scrubbing it off. If you cut before the butterfly is gone, you’ve killed it. If you dont cut, it lives. If you have more than one butterfly, cutting kills all of them. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special. Take good care of them. Even if you don’t cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support. If you do this, name it after someone you know that cuts or is suffering right now, and tell them. It could help.

The Butterfly project is for people who self harm. Every time you feel like cutting you are to draw a butterfly instead.

The Butterfly Project is a project to help those who self harm. The idea of is is to draw a butterfly on the place where you self harm. If you self harm while the butterfly is still there, you are supposed to clean the butterfly off and start over. if you do not self harm during the time the butterfly is there, when it fades away, you have succeeded and the butterfly has "flown away" without injury. its a great coping tool for so many and it really helps to raise awareness.

The Butterfly Project is something that is based on an idea of overcoming self-harm by relating the pain to loved ones. Every time you feel the need to cut, or harm in anyway you draw a butterfly with the name of someone you loved in the area. If you cut you kill the butterfly and the person in the butterfly. You can't wash the butterflies off you have to wait for them to naturally disappear. It's a coping mechanism.