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What is the Butterfly Project?

Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 19, 2015
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The butterfly project is a way to stop self-harming. Either you or someone else draws a butterfly on you and you have to name it of a person you care for. If you self-harm you kill the butterfly.
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Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 22, 2015
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The butterfly project is about helping people to stop self harming. You draw a butterfly on your wrist for every person that wants you to stop cutting. And if you cut then you've killed the butterfly.
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The butterfly project is when you are in a tough time and you don't want to harm yourself. You draw a butterfly wherever you want to hurt yourself and out the name of someone special in your life in the butterfly. If you harm yourself you kill the butterfly.
Profile: OCDLena
OCDLena on Jul 22, 2015
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1. when you feel like you want to cut, take a marker or pen and draw a butterfly wherever the self-harm 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 cut before the butterfly is gone, it dies. if you don't cut, 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 cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support.
Profile: tranquilFreedom
tranquilFreedom on Jul 22, 2015
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The Butterfly Project is a project to help people with self harm. You can either draw a butterfly on yourself or have someone draw it on you. The butterfly has to fade naturally but if you cut or burn you kill the butterfly.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 23, 2015
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The Butterfly project to me is to represent hope/life. I say that because it refers to self harming. Each butterfly that is drawn represents hope/life you/others have for the person. If the person self harm a butterfly will die; which represents hurt you/other people has felt as if a life was taken away from them.
Profile: Thanks4Calling
Thanks4Calling on Jul 23, 2015
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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.
Profile: Fabell
Fabell on Jul 23, 2015
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If you harm yourself you draw a butterfly on the area and you try to keep it alive and not harm it in any way. It's like a symbol for hope.
Profile: Anonymous
Anonymous on Jul 24, 2015
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When you feel like you want to cut, draw a butterfly on your arm instead, it's designed to help people quit self harm.
Profile: Fenton115
Fenton115 on Jul 24, 2015
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The Butterfly Project is a coping mechanism used to replace self harm, specifically cutting. The basic outline of how this project works is when you feel the urge to cut, draw a butterfly on your arm. Name it after someone who you love or loves you. The butterfly must fade naturally, it can't be washed off. If you cut yourself, it kills the butterfly, if you have multiple butterflies, it kills them all.
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