Recovery Survey

Submitted by: Anonymous

Age: 13
In Recovery From: Depression, cutting, anxiety disorder

#1 Reason To Recover: So I don’t people don’t have to worry about me and for my boyfriend to have a finally happy girlfriend

Why Did You Decide To Recover: 
I realized how much it hurts someone when I cut and how much people actually care and want me to stop

Best Things About Recovery: 
Being happier and worrying less

Hardest Part About Recovery: 
Stopping but it’s worth it

Recovery Advice: 
Keep your head up and smile

Recovery Survey

Submitted by: e-yang

Age: 19
In Recovery From: Opiates

#1 Reason To Recover: To not be sick all the time

Why Did You Decide To Recover: 
Enough was enough.

Best Things About Recovery: 
Self confidence.

Hardest Part About Recovery: 
Giving up that easily accessible synthetic bliss.

Recovery Advice: 
The mind is everything. You are what you think. Just believe and you shall succeed.

Anything Else?
You can do this.

brighteyezombie: Got my @100rtr bracelet today! 46 days strong💕 #mine #100reasonstorecover #recovery Awesome bracelet! We hope it will help remind you of why you should recover. Congrats on 46 days strong already! Want some 100RtR merch? We have a bunch of other stuff in our store and a lot of cool designs.  Check out all we have to offer by clicking here and visiting our store.  Get your own You Deserve To Be Okay bracelet by clicking here. Bracelets are only $2.00 (which includes shipping) and $3.00 if you live outside the USA. If you own a bracelet, we’d love to see it on you, so submit a picture! All money raised from merch sales goes right back into this project (unless you buy our NEDA shirt - then it goes towards NEDA). You can see exactly how the money is spent by viewing our logistics page.  Already own 100RtR merch? Submit a picture of yourself with it, and you will be featured on Merch Monday!
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brighteyezombie:

Got my @100rtr bracelet today! 46 days strong💕 #mine #100reasonstorecover #recovery

Awesome bracelet! We hope it will help remind you of why you should recover. Congrats on 46 days strong already!

Want some 100RtR merch? We have a bunch of other stuff in our store and a lot of cool designs.  Check out all we have to offer by clicking here and visiting our store. 

Get your own You Deserve To Be Okay bracelet by clicking here. Bracelets are only $2.00 (which includes shipping) and $3.00 if you live outside the USA. If you own a bracelet, we’d love to see it on you, so submit a picture!

All money raised from merch sales goes right back into this project (unless you buy our NEDA shirt - then it goes towards NEDA). You can see exactly how the money is spent by viewing our logistics page. 

Already own 100RtR merch? Submit a picture of yourself with it, and you will be featured on Merch Monday!

Tumblr Tuesday

In honour of this week’s 100RtR Challenge on Body relaxation, this week’s Tumblr Tuesday is featuring sites that help promote self soothing techniques! 

1) http://weavesilk.com/ - A soothing website that allows you to create digital symmetrical art while listening to peaceful nature sounds! There’s even an app for this website too. 

2) http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/ - Create your own digital nebula in all sorts of colours that is calming to create and to look at!

3) http://www.lookingatsomething.com/ - A website that provides free nature sounds to help self sooth

4) http://www.tarabrach.com/audioarchives-guided-meditations.html - The meditations below are freely available. All files are in .mp3 format - you can play them on your computer, iPod, or other .mp3 player. 

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Want to be featured on our Tumblr Tuesday or have suggestions for inspirational blogs? Let us know here! 

Challenge of the Week

Week 11: Body Relaxation Exercise

Body relaxation is a great way to distress. Take 10-15 minutes and put yourself into a relaxed state. Starting from your toes going up tense each muscle hold it for a few seconds then let it go. As you let go on the tension, also let go of all the stress, all the negative thoughts, all the bad things that have happened. Breathe in. Then breathe out. Now move onto the next muscle. 

For a lot of people they keep their hands in a fist, sometimes you feel tension in your neck and back, maybe you feel it in your stomach. Go through these areas again if you still feel stressed after you finished going through this once.

When you breathe do a 5-3-5 breathing exercise: breathe in for 5 seconds, hold for 3 seconds, breathe out for 5 seconds. Let go of all your tension. Allow your mind to go blank.

After you have gone through all your muscles, reflect on how that process went for you. Did this process make you slow down? Did you try to get through it quickly? Were you able to let go of your thoughts and tension? How do you feel now that it’s over? Whenever we feel stressed we can feel it in our bodies. 

If you want, write about your experience and tag the post #100RtRChallenges so that they will be seen by us and by others following the tag.Track the tag to see how others are doing.

Good luck - 100RTR Staff

Description of Uploaded Image: a picture of me at 8am in the morning.. before i put my face on… Submitted by: SimsyAge: 32In Recovery From: self injury,sexual abuse, depression and psychosis #1 Reason To Recover: my lovely husband Why Did You Decide To Recover: Because I have a loving family, a devoted husband and a flock of birds that need my love and devotion plus why should i keep hurting myself Best Things About Recovery: having the ability to remind me self I have the strength to carry on when all is lost, that I am powerful and strong.each day I choose to fight is a good day, each day I am still breathing is a day that I cherish. Hardest Part About Recovery: the relapses and the struggles when the bad thoughts outweigh the good. Recovery Advice: Find something that inspires you in my case it’s the comic book superhero batman and use that when things get tough to fight get rid of things that are negative (In my case I had to move to another country to get rid of my negative but I hope it’s not as extreme for you guys as it was for me!) Anything Else?Remember you are not alone in this… you have strength and courage to over come any and all obstacles in your way, you are a powerful individual
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Submitted by: Simsy
Age: 32
In Recovery From: self injury,sexual abuse, depression and psychosis

#1 Reason To Recover: my lovely husband

Why Did You Decide To Recover: 
Because I have a loving family, a devoted husband and a flock of birds that need my love and devotion plus why should i keep hurting myself

Best Things About Recovery: 
having the ability to remind me self I have the strength to carry on when all is lost, that I am powerful and strong.

each day I choose to fight is a good day, each day I am still breathing is a day that I cherish.

Hardest Part About Recovery: 
the relapses and the struggles when the bad thoughts outweigh the good.

Recovery Advice: 
Find something that inspires you in my case it’s the comic book superhero batman and use that when things get tough to fight 

get rid of things that are negative 

(In my case I had to move to another country to get rid of my negative but I hope it’s not as extreme for you guys as it was for me!)

Anything Else?
Remember you are not alone in this… you have strength and courage to over come any and all obstacles in your way, you are a powerful individual

Challenge Check In

On Monday, we challenged you to reflect on past challenges and incoorporate some into daily life.

Remember, if you complete the challenge and feel like sharing your experience with the rest of the 100RtR community, you can tag the post #100RtRChallenges.

So, how did you do with the challenge this week? What challenges have you chosen to adopt?

Source: 100reasonstorecover.com

Q:I just want to cut, anything to hurt myself but ever since I moved to a new house, everytime I cut I have trouble breathing (weezing] at night. And sometimes I get real dizzy to the point where I faint. This has never happened to me before.

Anonymous

Hello Anon, 

I am no medical doctor, so my advice on this is to see a doctor about the physical difficulties you are experiencing. It could be part of a panic attack, it could be some sort of chemical issue in your body, or it could be asthma. I am not too sure what it is, but the best thing you can do for yourself is to seek out professional help. 

Seeking out professional help, not only for the difficulty breathing, but also for the issue of self harming. They could be related or they might not be. Regardless, your health is the most important thing right now, and you need to do what you can to take care of yourself. 

Try searching for a therapist that concentrates on issues of depression and anxiety. This type of professional help will be beneficial to you with being able to provide you with information about these disorders, being able to help you explore the deeper emotional issues behind them, as well as to give you some sort of support system. 

A medical doctor can work with the therapist on some level (assuming that these two conditions are related) to help figure out why this is happening to you. 

I hope this helps you a bit on what you’re struggling with. Your body is the only one you have, so you need to be gentle with it. Take care of it. Good luck. 

-100RtR Staff

Description of Uploaded Image: Proud owner of a bracelet and tank top to promote this blog! Submitted by: butterflies-on-my-kneesAge: 17In Recovery From: Depression, Self harm, Ednos(leaning towards anorexia) #1 Reason To Recover: to inspire someone else Why Did You Decide To Recover: I’ve always wanted to recover from depression, after two years I finally wanted to try medication next to normal therapy and after trying different ones it seems to work! For self harm, I had given recovery a try because of my friend but then I kept relapsing. It got to a point were I almost had to be sent to hospital and I felt as if it had to stop. I didn’t want to hurt my parents anymore and I made a recovery book, a bracelet that worked like the paper chain project, I got loads of butterflies and support from online friends and that gave me enough motivation. For my eating disorder, I had to realize that I would never be happy with my body if I continued to starve, no matter how low the number would be. Admitting I had a problem with eating was one of the biggest steps towards recovery. Best Things About Recovery: the moments that I can actually feel happy! I would have never believed that I could feel happiness again. I feel as if life is worth it. I have more energy, more motivation, I actually organize things and enjoy doing my hobbies. all the fighting is worth it. I also love that I am able to inspire other people. I can help people. Hardest Part About Recovery: Most of it is hard, you will have to be strong and have a lot of willpower. The first weeks was the hardest when it comes to urges, but the urges would get smaller and you’d go from wanting to harm yourself every hour to every day to once a week to once a month to even fewer amounts.. Recovery Advice: if you’re down/depressed right now. just remember there’s so many people supporting you. whether it’s online or not, there’s always one person that would catch a bullet for you (or buy you a bulletproof vest). if you think you don’t have such a person then I will be that person. Every day might be a struggle but there will be days that make you feel it was worth the fight. I have struggled for so long and now I’m happy/content for 2 days and I think it’s freaking worth it. I think it’s worth the nights I have cried till my lungs and ribs hurt, it’s worth feeling ashamed while talking about your secrets, it’s worth your heart pounding in your chest because of the reflection in the mirror. Because you decided to not give up after that. You decided to keep fighting. Every day that you decide to stay alive I would give you a golden medal if I had the money. You will be able to think clearly again, you will have peace in your mind. That peace will not be brought to you by death or pain. You will find it by knowing you have survived through terrible days and terrible feelings, you will find it in knowing you can inspire others with your strength. You will radiate love and you will be able to spread it. You are worth so much more than numbers on scales and sizes of pants, than sleepless nights, than wounds and bruises and bites. You will get through all of that. You will gain weight and you will dance because you don’t feel guilty about it, you will have sweet dreams of traveling and friends, you will touch your scars and cover them with butterflies. You will be an inspiration, a role model, a hero. You are my hero and don’t you dare forget it.
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Submitted by: butterflies-on-my-knees
Age: 17
In Recovery From: Depression, Self harm, Ednos(leaning towards anorexia)

#1 Reason To Recover: to inspire someone else

Why Did You Decide To Recover: 
I’ve always wanted to recover from depression, after two years I finally wanted to try medication next to normal therapy and after trying different ones it seems to work! 

For self harm, I had given recovery a try because of my friend but then I kept relapsing. It got to a point were I almost had to be sent to hospital and I felt as if it had to stop. I didn’t want to hurt my parents anymore and I made a recovery book, a bracelet that worked like the paper chain project, I got loads of butterflies and support from online friends and that gave me enough motivation. 

For my eating disorder, I had to realize that I would never be happy with my body if I continued to starve, no matter how low the number would be. Admitting I had a problem with eating was one of the biggest steps towards recovery.

Best Things About Recovery: 
the moments that I can actually feel happy! I would have never believed that I could feel happiness again. I feel as if life is worth it. I have more energy, more motivation, I actually organize things and enjoy doing my hobbies. all the fighting is worth it. 

I also love that I am able to inspire other people. I can help people.

Hardest Part About Recovery: 
Most of it is hard, you will have to be strong and have a lot of willpower. The first weeks was the hardest when it comes to urges, but the urges would get smaller and you’d go from wanting to harm yourself every hour to every day to once a week to once a month to even fewer amounts..

Recovery Advice: 
if you’re down/depressed right now. just remember there’s so many people supporting you. whether it’s online or not, there’s always one person that would catch a bullet for you (or buy you a bulletproof vest). if you think you don’t have such a person then I will be that person. Every day might be a struggle but there will be days that make you feel it was worth the fight. I have struggled for so long and now I’m happy/content for 2 days and I think it’s freaking worth it. I think it’s worth the nights I have cried till my lungs and ribs hurt, it’s worth feeling ashamed while talking about your secrets, it’s worth your heart pounding in your chest because of the reflection in the mirror. Because you decided to not give up after that. You decided to keep fighting. Every day that you decide to stay alive I would give you a golden medal if I had the money. You will be able to think clearly again, you will have peace in your mind. That peace will not be brought to you by death or pain. You will find it by knowing you have survived through terrible days and terrible feelings, you will find it in knowing you can inspire others with your strength. You will radiate love and you will be able to spread it. You are worth so much more than numbers on scales and sizes of pants, than sleepless nights, than wounds and bruises and bites. You will get through all of that. You will gain weight and you will dance because you don’t feel guilty about it, you will have sweet dreams of traveling and friends, you will touch your scars and cover them with butterflies. You will be an inspiration, a role model, a hero. You are my hero and don’t you dare forget it.

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