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I'm sorry. I've scraped all my skin off my arm. It's my neck I want to do
Been in and out of hospital loads of times. Problem is when you get one of those nurses that puts you on a guilt trip. I avoid hospital like the plague nowadays and just close the cuts using skin staples.I think I've asked this before - but I'm keen for opinions.
If you cut so deep you need hospital treatment/stitches, would you attend hospital? Or just leave it to heal up naturally?
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I think I've asked this before - but I'm keen for opinions.
If you cut so deep you need hospital treatment/stitches, would you attend hospital? Or just leave it to heal up naturally?
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I panic when I see inside to bone or I can see threads hanging on or other stuff I shouldn't be seeing. I'll go the hospital then. Burned skin doesn't seem to go that well on its own so I dunno what to do now with this.I think I've asked this before - but I'm keen for opinions.
If you cut so deep you need hospital treatment/stitches, would you attend hospital? Or just leave it to heal up naturally?
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I suppose it's just the same as having the hospital do it for you.
They're safe out of the box but the more you use the same one the higher the chance of infection. I've only had one infection from them and that's only because I wasn't being careful (one end of a staple went inside the cut). If you are going down the stapler route be sure and get the small removal tool as they're evil to get out without it. Stay safe.Ooh this interests me.. so my situation is that I slowly got deeper over time, then earlier in the year ended up in A&E as I needed staples. They did it, and tbf they were lovely but my problem is I now work in that hospital - and having repeated A&E visits for staples/stitches is quite risky. So I'm in a predicament where I'm having horrendous urges, but the thought of having to go to A&E is terrifying, so if/when I do cut again I'm sort of exploring the possibility of just leaving them to self heal - but I reeaally don't think it's viable (as I say, I work in a hospital, they'd probably get infected no matter how well I looked after them).
I've looked into self-stitching, but in reality I think I'd struggle & it would still run the infection risk as I wouldn't have the proper resources - I have seen on here people who take things from work but that is absolutely, morally not something I'm prepared to do at all.
So may I ask, where do you get a skin stapler from? Self-stapling sounds like the safest option for me by far!
Thanks for sharing your experience!
Peace,
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Edit: I've just found loads on ebay! Wow I didn't realise they were so easily available!
Do you get many infections with self-stapling?
I'm sorry that's your experience. Do you have any trauma from the past you haven't dealt with? That's my problem.That would be the dream! Unfortunately my GPs say that I'm too unwell/complex to be dealt with by them - which I agree with tbf - but as a result they are very reluctant to do anything with me. They repeatedly refer me to the CMHT to receive assistance from the professionals; sadly, the CMHT are of the opinion I'm not quite unwell enough to fall into their catchment, and they end up bouncing me back to the GP.
So sadly I've fallen into the "gutter" of no medical professional taking responsibility for my care. My GPs do what they can, when I get into crisis they prescibe me a few doses of Zopiclone, but that only knocks me out for 12 hours, and when I wake up I tend to be in the same position again. Sometimes after a good Zop sleep I improve for a few days, but it's only a very short term treatment, then I end up back in crisis. All my GP can do is tell me to go to A&E, but as anyone will attest, walking into A&E telling them I need to self harm - there's not actually anything they can do (unless I actually self harm and need medical aid). Seeing psych liaison is a waste of time as they just tell me to go back to the GP.
I'm at the point now where the only person I can rely on is myself.
Mental health services really are dire. I hope you have better luck & find someone who will take some responsibility to help you.
Hugs
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Are there any charity's in your area that deal with the specific type of trauma you've suffered? That's where I'm at now. The 1st therapist I had got sick and the next one just didn't work.Sadly I do, another reason why I'm too complex for primary care. I am in trauma-focused counselling. I've been through counselling before and it's never worked, I just can't get comfortable enough to talk about things honestly with a complete stranger.. but right now I have to take what I can get.
+ sadly, even if I tell the counseller I'm self harming/ suicidal, all they can do is say (yep you guessed it) go to the GP. What is the point.
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Woah that is harsh.
This was pretty difficult to close up, they probably would have needed stitches or something but I couldn't risk going to the hospital so I used strips (butterfly stitches) and plasters to keep close them up as much as I could. I also had a tight wristband over the top to keep it covered up and made sure it didn't get worse. It took a long time but eventually it healed. My wrist now looks very messed up from it though, especially since I cut even more after it had healed but I have no regrets! I even wish I could do it again but that's not possible at the moment.
I'm 42 and have been struggling with self harm since I was about 11 years old. I went a span of about 8 years where I didn't struggle with it the but the last year or so has been a serious struggle and the last 6-8 months have been hell. Now I want to cut and think about suicide all the time.
I'm sorry that you're struggling like that, it sounds very painful. Sometimes the pain is inescapable, I've totally broken down under it, but I don't think that self-harm would provide any sort of real relief. So now I'm just thinking about suicide. It's a lonely place to be.
sorry for my fat legs I'm disgusting
