365 days

365 days

365 days

12 months 

31536000 seconds 

525600 minutes 

52.143 weeks

8760 hours

1 year. 

That's how long I have been clean for. 

When you say a year it doesn't sound like much, but when you break it down like that, it's so much more than 12 months. 

12 months of constant hard, determined, exhausting work and effort put into a recovery that has taken up all of my teenage years and the first year of my 20s, 

The addiction, the bad habit that i thought i couldn't  live without, here i am a year later, living thriving without it. 12 year old me, wanting to find a way to cope, to feel something, to escape from everything. That 12 year old me, sacred of what i was doing and trying to feel in control

That feeling of being in control disappeared just like that. 

1 cut turns to 2 which turns to 3 then 4,5,6,7,then before you know it, you're covered and wondering how you let yourself get like that.

Stuck with trying to hide everything, the shower stings, the clothes stick, the pain, the blood, the amount of plasters, the stitches, the long sleeves, the regret. 

The constant thought of doing it, every day, every minute, every hour, the thing that consumes your mind, the only thing that you can focus on something you want to do after a bad day, the thing that consumes you. The only thing that understands you. 

You become a different person, a horrible, distant person, that one wants to be around, the person that snaps at anything. The urge to just keep doing it 

When people find out they change, they tip toe around every conversation. The lack of trust in case you do it again, the constant arm, legs, stomach checks. The shouting, the screaming, just for someone to tell you are stupid, looking for attention, no one understanding WHY you are doing it . no one listening, no one caring. 

365 days later 

A job 

A good bunch of friends

Brilliant support network 

Hobbies 

Finally trusting yourself 

Stable 

Most importantly 

12 months 

31536000 seconds 

525600 minutes 

52.143 weeks

8760 hours 

1 whole year 

Clean from self harm, the thing i never thought i would stop the thing that took over my life 

I would back in a heartbeat and hug my younger self for putting her through all of that, and it truly is worth putting the effort into recovery 

Healing takes time, so do the scars that are now left on my body as a reminder that I have survived the hardest parts. 

My scars, my story. 

365 days.