cutting... Options

[xcocoaxmuffinx]

I hate to bring this up, but does anybody cut themselves?
i think it goes here....its a mental health topic.
The reason I'm posting this is because I suffer with it and have been for 8 years [gosh i was like 10] , so if you need to talk to anyone-im here.

[aaayotiffany]

i've done it because i felt really bad about myself.
this was when i was like 13-14 years old. i hated the way my life was going and the few good things i had in my life were leaving me.

but i stopped because i promised some people back then that i wouldn't do it anymore and i haven't since then. and now when i look back on it, i didn't like myself for doing it. i wouldn't say i was stupid because i really didn't like the way my life was going, but i wished i could have thought of something else.

[illriginal]

i've done it because i felt really bad about myself.
this was when i was like 13-14 years old. i hated the way my life was going and the few good things i had in my life were leaving me.

Let me ask you... is the cutting something that someone advised you to do? I don't understand how emotional pain automatically makes you think about physical pain for relief.

I mean I know if you stub your toe the best thing to do is bite your finger (unless you know how to control your mind and make the pain disappear, near instantly) in order to lose the concentration of the pain in the toe. But that's physical pain = physical pain.

It amazes me that a child at the age of 13-14 years old would have the idea of cutting them selves. Cutting was an adult thing, many of which were in mental hospitals and the drugs that were given to them weren't enough.

It scares the shit out of me how the generations are evolving... and because of it, I fear to even have a child.