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How do you guys cope whit the scars fading?

My scars have been fading and it's really been fucking whit my head. I did SH for multiple reasons but one was that my mom never really accepted that I'm mentally ill, and my scars where an actual physical symptom that was hard to ignore or deny. So them fading and not being visible hurts and wants to make me relapse. I don't want to do that, I've been clean since March, but still, my skin itches for the blade.

The other thing is, that if you compare them to freshly healed to now, a lot of scars are still there, only a few faded:/

(The blurred one is the old from, from around January/February)

u/Theo_the_one16 — 1 month ago