wherefeathersfall: The cutting is NOT you. It isn't a part of you. It isn't who you are.

It's a way to cope. To deal with all the shit in our heads. To deal with fear. It makes all the thoughts go away. It makes my body memories go away.

But, it's a way to cope. It isn't who I am.
It isn't who you are.

The choice of whether or not to reach out for support or help and ways to find other ways to cope is yours. But you cutting, you chose to do that, you found that, because you didn't know another way to survive.

You were surviving. You are surviving.
You don't need to apologize.