this with as little or as much ceremony as you like. Throwing them in the bin might work best, or you can really create a ritual of out it and say goodbye to your tools at the same time as saying goodbye to your previous, bad, mindset. It might be hard, but when it's done you'll feel like a chain around you forcing you to continue with old patterns you're trying to break free from has lifted. Learn new ways of releasing pressure and, most of all, communication. These will start having a profound effect on your urges and the strength of them. Each time you get an urge, talk to someone, take a walk, write in your diary, scream into your pillow, squeeze that ice cube hard in your hand. Do them all at once if that is what it takes. The trick is to keep challenging yourself to see if you can reduce the urge using a different method to self harm. See if you can last another 15 minutes by doing something you know is healthy, and if you can - try it for another 15. Not all of these methods will work, and not all of the time will you stop that urge. But after a while of sticking with it, of exploring yourself and your issues, of using other coping methods and, most of all, of really wanting to stop, you will realise that you need self harm much less than you did before. And