I'm the only one who cut in this system but I haven't done it very much for the last four years, 0-2 slip ups a year. Different reasons for doing it have different alternatives. Finding something to focus on is useful for the ungrounded, floating, "i can't seem to find the body even though I'm in it" feeling. The feeling creeps me the fuck out and cutting is a solution to it. So I try other ways of trying to remember where the body is. I won't say the orange juice made everything better, but it was something to do and something to focus on which prevented me from doing it in that moment and if you ride it out doing little things like that you can eventually get to a point where you don't need to.

But that's just for cutting to stop feeling spacey and dissociated. I noticed a long time ago that cutting stops flashbacks if I'm only halfway in the flashback and need something to pull me back. The problem is that it works so I get tempted to go back to it. With those, the main thing I've found is to just remind myself that if I don't face it now, it'll haunt me worse later. Things you're avoiding tend to do that. So with that in mind, I try not to stop it and then try to get it all out of my head later if I can.

I used to cut for self punishment a long time ago. If I made a mistake I'd need to be punished. I haven't had the urge to do that in a long time though, but I still can be a bit punishing verbally.

Writing helps. Going out rollerblading until I'm sore usually helps but isn't right now.

I wouldn't recommend channeling the cutting urges into an eating disorder. Tried that, in hopes that we wouldn't be hospitalised for the cutting. Was hospitalised for 6 months for an ed. Got the t-shirt.

Usually these urges to cut mean I'm not dealing with something. Wish I knew what I'm running from right now so I could deal with it and get it over with.