Mx.Izzy said 8 years, 11 months ago:

I have been relatively self-harm free for a while now. I still dabble in a few bad habits here and there, but I am pretty okay right now. I have a lot of scars on my body and most of them are fading away now. I usually do not have any kind of urge of self harm again, but sometimes, when I look at my scars for too long, I feel a sense of desperation and panic because I don’t want them to go away. As morbid and crazy as it sounds, I like having my scars. They are no longer a source of shame for me.
I don’t want to self-harm anymore, but I don’t want my current scars to fade away. So what do I do?

Deleted User said 8 years, 11 months ago:

I feel this way to.. so often.. but something I have to keep reminding myself is that, not matter what, my scars are not who I am. They can fade and I will not. I have to remind myself that the light the get, the hard it is to find them, the strong i have been and the happier i can be.
I should not, and neither should you, rely on our scars to define who we are. We were onces people without them and so we can be again.
Do not let you scares define you, define them, and them move past them, forgetting them as a distance memory.