through and am stronger for it."; To be able to wear summer clothing without feeling self conscious. Think about why you want to stop self harming and write it all down. Don't worry about how silly you think it sounds - these are your reasons and they're perfectly valid. No one is going to see them unless you want them to so write down everything you can think of. A lot of the time people decide to quit for the 'wrong' reasons, at the wrong time or in the wrong way - sometimes it can feel like you're not ready to stop self harming even though you want to, or you know that you should because you'd be in danger if you continued. We at Scar Tissue believe that you can only really stop when you're ready, and in order to stop self harming you have to want to stop. That's why you've just written down why you want to self harm - I've heard so many times about people who are quitting for their friends, their family, their partner - but not because they want to. It is possible to stop if you're doing it for someone else, but it's much easier to stop if you're doing it for yourself, and by really looking at why you want to stop you now have the reasons why you want to stop harming. Scar Tissue doesn't force people to stop self harming. We recognise that self harm is a coping mechanism,