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Fallen, I too am a self harmer( first received help in 2001)so I feel your pain. I have gotten through 6 months without it. For me that is a victory. It's ok not to be ok. Honestly. Sometimes life is hard, to be quite blunt it can be utter shite. The world goes on and we are just scraping through another day. I'm on mumsnet as BlueSally. Please message me at anytime. I have gone through 5 and a half years of being married to an RSO with mental health issues as well as having my own health and mental health problems. Each day my love, take it as it comes. X

Fallen 33 I'm so sorry to hear you're feeling so low, I hope you're checking back here and reading these messages of support. Anyone who is in our situation will recognise those feelings of desperation and hopelessness. To say this is an emotional roller coaster is wrong for me, because there are no highs, just a great many lows and if you're lucky bits in between where you just get by. It's so stupid but a quote from a Tom Hanks film has gone through my head so many times, it's from Castaway about the man stuck on the desert island who finally gets home to find his old life is gone. It was something like

And I know what I have to do now. I gotta keep breathing. Because tomorrow the sun will rise. Who knows what the tide might bring?

We're all castaways here, and some days all you can manage is to keep breathing. I felt your pain in that post. If you possibly can, reach out. Pick up the phone and talk to the Lucy Faithfull helpline, or the Samaritans. But get through today and know you have support here.