Drawing A Butterfly On Your Wrist

What is The Butterfly Project?

The butterfly project is a project that can aid people who self harm to resist the urges. A butterfly is drawn in the place/s where the individual self-harms and they can use the butterfly to represent someone they love, then when they feel the need to self harm they can look at the butterfly and try to resist so that they do not harm the butterfly.

1. When you feel like you want to cut, take a marker, pen, or sharpies and draw a butterfly on your arm or hand.

2. Name the butterfly after a loved one, or someone that really wants you to get better.

3. You must let the butterfly fade naturally. NO scrubbing it off.

4. If you cut before the butterfly is gone, you've killed it. If you dont cut, it lives.

5. If you have more than one butterfly, cutting kills all of them.

6. Another person may draw them on you. These butterflies are extra special. Take good care of them.

7. Even if you don't cut, feel free to draw a butterfly anyways, to show your support. If you do this, name it after someone you know that cuts or is suffering right now, and tell them. It could help.

Have you heard of The Butterfly Project? I heard it helped (Friend) stop cutting. Maybe I should try it.

Self harm needs to be talked about out loud.

" I first started self harming when I was 11. Initially it was cutting. I lied and told anyone who asked that they were cat scratches, and as I got older people stopped buying that excuse. As I got into my teenage years, I started to purge. Not to lose weight, but to self harm in a different way. Thats when it began to spiral out of control.

Last September, I tried to kill myself. Before doing so, I cut up my whole arm. My parents found me and immediately took me to the ER. One of my cuts was so deep it had to be stapled shut, now I am covered in big ugly scars all over that arm. But that was the last time I cut. I am 5, almost 6 months clean from self harm and I couldn't be prouder.

If anyone feels alone, if anyone feels like no ones going to understand you, they'll think you did this to yourself just because, or you'll feel judged- you are not alone. Self injury is an extremely common and understated thing, and the less it is talked about out loud, the more ignorant people are to the topic. So talk. Begin to spread awareness and help out those who need it. We all need eachother, and there is a better tomorrow. I promise. "

H.O.P.E
HOLD ON PAIN ENDS

You're precious, you're special, you're valuable !

Keep living and keep smiling.

"I found out about the butterfly project over a year ago. I didn't cut, but the subject was way too interesting for me and I couldn't just leave it there. I posted about the butterfly project in a blog I have in order to raise awareness and tell people who cut that there's another way of coping with things and that cutting can't practically save any of your problems.

And the next day I saw people at school with butterflies on their arms and pictures of them posted on facebook. I hadn't done much but it was more than nothing.

That was one year ago. Today, I received an email from a girl, asking me for help. I replied to her as soon as I saw it.

And it's all because of you, because this is where I first saw what the butterfly project is.

Keep living and keep smiling everyone."

Me to every self-harm people ♡

" I care too, so stop hurting and making your beautiful wrist ugly.. please?"
DevilBaek .