I let it happen again. I slipped up, and now I'm back where I started. I hate that I hate myself. I hate that I can't stop. I hate that no matter how hard I try, nothing seems to work. I hate the thoughts I have, that sickening feeling of short lived joy when blades grind against my skin. No one knows the things I do to myself. No one hears my tears or my awful thoughts. But I hear, loud and clear, and it keeps me awake. I can't sleep when everything is so loud. I love it, but I hate it. I crave it, but I am disgusted by it. The marks appear on my skin, the blood rushes to its surface, the pain throbs. The pain I love, the pain I hate. The pain I am addicted to.