What is the Butterfly Project?

The Butterfly Project is a project to do in prevention to self-harm. When ever you get the urge to harm yourself you draw butterflies on your skin.

Cuando una persona se quiera auto lesionar, en vez de hacer eso se dibuje una mariposa en la parte donde se quiera dañar e imagine que es un ser querido al cual nunca dañaría. Si se quiere dañar, tiene que dañar la mariposa. Si la mariposa se borro sola y sin ningún auto lesión, la persona lo logro.

The Butterfly Project, is a viral thing that is helping many people who are self harming, to go into recovery. To help many people, mainly teenagers, to be clean and stay strong. How it works; this movement works by a person drawing two butterflies, on whatever place you self harm. You name those butterflies after someone you love unconditionally, alive, or deceased, it won't matter. And if you self harm, both of them die. This project has helped me and many others. Stay strong, stay beautiful, we love you.

1. When you feel like you want to "do it", take a marker or a pen and draw a butterfly wherever "it" occurs. 2. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better. 3. NO scrubbing the butterfly off! 4. If you "do it" before the butterfly is gone, it dies. If you don't "do it", it lives. 5. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special; take good care of them. 6. Even if you don’t "do it", feel free to draw a butterfly anyway, to show your support.

The butterfly project is a way for people who deal with self harm to try and stop. It can involve only yourself, or your friends and family as well. When you feel the need to self harm, you, or someone you care about, draws a butterfly on your hand or arm. It is now your responsibility to take care of that butterfly. And if you self harm, the the butterfly dies. It's a way to show those that self harm that they are not alone, and that people care for them, and are there to help them. It also shows the physical opposite of self harm, instead of destroying, you are safeguarding life.

The Butterfly Project is a helpful technique to stop self harming. The idea is that when you want to cut/harm yourself in some way, you draw a butterfly on your arm or wrist. You name the butterfly after someone you love, and don't wash it off. As long as you don't cut, the butterfly 'lives'. If you do harm yourself, the butterfly 'dies' and you wash it off. Someone else can draw a butterfly on for you, and these ones are extra special. Non self-harmers can draw a butterfly on to show support for those struggling with self harm :)

The Butterfly Project is a project created to help those who want to stop self-harming. The self-harmer draws butterflies on the areas they would normally harm, and is encouraged to name them after friends and family members. When the self-harmer hurts themselves, one of the butterflies dies.

Its an (amazing in my opinion) project where someone writes a butterly where you self harm and their name under it (or you can write a name) and the idea is, when you self harm the butterfly dies. So if you hurt yourself, those who are on your arm will die inside, but still have the will to live, while you're set free.

this project was started on tumblr to help self harmers stop hurting themselves. You basically draw a butterfly wherever you usually cut and name it after a loved one. If you are able to keep it on until it naturally fade away without cutting it, you have set the loved one free. If you cut while the butterfly is still there you have killed. Personally I found that it works better if the loved one actually draws the buttery themselves.

The Butterfly Project is a project that is supposed to help people who self harm to quit self harming. You draw a butterfly on your body and name it after someone special and everytime you feel like hurting yourself you look at the butterfly and it reminds you that the person you named it after cares about you and wouldn't want you to hurt yourself.