just-a-skinny-boy:

aawwpickles:

Today I wanted to tell you all how I deal with self-harm. Most of the time, when I feel like doing anything to myself, I try not to. And the best way for me dealing with it is to make origami. I recently taught myself how to fold cranes/swans. And since then I’ve been writing what I feel about myself on the white side of my origami-paper. I then fold them in to something beautiful.

When I think about it, it’s really symbolic. Because there are these bad words on the inside, but something beautiful on the outside. Just like us. We are all truly beautiful on the outside, but behind that we are all just hiding what we feel about ourselves. But it’s not true. It’s in our brains. Just some stupid words. 

I guess different people have different ways of dealing with self-harm. I try not to do it, but sometimes I just can’t stop myself. But I often end up thinking what the hell am I doing and stopping myself. But it’s already done by then, though. 

I you want – you’re welcome to do the same thing. You can make bigger cranes if you want, mine are quite tiny. But I’ve always been very fiddly and making tiny things, so this suits me very well. You don’t even have to make cranes. Make any origami-shape you want! 

This is amazing 🙂