u/Ok-Slice-6822

7 years thrown away?

So, this is my first post on Reddit. I never thought I would ever post anything, but I need to tell someone, and i guess this is how im doing it. I have been 7 years clean. It has been so long that i quit counting. I have felt the urge for quite some time, after I started therapy. I have been thru a quite stressful period, with my sexuality and family and work and what not. And now I have relapsed. I feel like such a failure, but I know I’m not. I think what’s bothering me the most is the fact that it’s 7 years, and that I’m in my late 20s. I have always had this fucked up thought that self harm is for teens and young adults, and that I’m too old and that kind of attitude. In sorts that’s what kept me going.

I’m not sure why I’m writing all of this, I guess I just had to get this all out. I’m not going to therapy anymore, but I think I have to…

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