Cutting. Options

[Dist0rtion_Withi...]

Cutting is like an addiction like drugs are addiction. You can never stop when you want. I've been cutting/carving for 3 yrs. It feels so good but I can't go on like this. I want to wear short sleeves. Ugh..Also I could go to a mental ward. I'm not going to tell my therapist because she will kill me..What should I do?

[Led-Zeppelin Lov...]

ok, i know how feels, because i used to cut myself...it is addicting and your right, it does feel good, but think of it this way...ur arms are ruined, those scars won't go away...when people find out, they start to think of you weird...and if you cut to deep, then you might cut a vein...and that is not the point of cutting...it's to replace emotional pain with physical pain...and there are other ways of doing that...what i did was talked to somebody...that kinda helped, but they totally didn't understand, so then i wrote poems...another thing to replace emotional pain is with exercising...it makes you fit, it feels good, and when your exercising, it releases this chemical reaction thing and it makes your mood more happy...i really advise to please stop, i know how addicting it is...

[y0urelectrikk]

Its not really an addiction for me.. I cut sometimes when I'm like REALLY frustrated. But I can control it.

[tresa1992]

You should really stop, I'm serious.

So many people have cut to "stop their pain", when only it just causes more (for example, like you).

Somet adults will probably eventually find out.

Tell your therapist, she/he is the only help.

[itzocccckkkkkk]

resist? find somethin else. put ice on ur wrist. it hurts and its not like..actually damaging NE thin. I wrote lots of poety and I do dark arts to be my release instead of cutting *i use to cut*. maybe u can try somethin else?

what she said

[*jeanna*]

i use to cut because i needed pain to dull out my mind out and make all out of the hell fade away. it was sucky because i couldn't wear short sleeves and if i did, i couldn't wear a wristband since my dad would be like, why would you wear that silly thing.

i liked the feeling too, it made it something for me to take care of and have a secret and think about. one night i just had enough, cut so much you could barely see my left bottom part of my arm and knew i had to do something so i went to my dad [who i live alone with] and told him and we ended up talking. the expression on his face was so incredibly more painful than the cutting feeling. he just kept asking, "why jeanna, why?" i ended up giving up all of my razors. probably around 50+ razors.

my house was made for cutting. tons of box cutters.. sometimes when i get really mad at myself mostly for something i did [guilt] i wanted to cut, but i ended up realizing it won't help my case.
i fussed up to my psychotherapist and i had to tell her everything.

i'm glad i'm over that bump in my life. i could never go back to cutting. i was on prozac and klonopin and still am till this day. i just occupy my time thinking about stuff rather than pain to myself. i know it is hard to do, but anyone can do it. it is the greatest feeling in the world seeing it heal and be able to wear short sleeves which people take for granted oddly.

i have a boyfriend and have alot more confidence within myself since i don't cut anymore. i thought i could never get over the cutting, but i did. about 110 days since i last cutting and the suicide attempt and the police coming over.

[cool_twin]

really.... it does feel good. I've been cutting for a while now and I can't stop . my friend saw my cuts and now she's doing it.... like wtf!?

It does that's why I used to do it........ I know from experience...... that pain is the exact thing that does in itself feel good..... I'm not saying its a good thing tho.... its the scars that made me stop....

[*salcha*]

yeah, my friend went through that.
but when i told her how much she has left to live for, and how much we all cared...i guess that stopped her.

think positive.

[dani41790]

hmm try something to motivate you to prevent you from cutting idk what. my friends motivator was "if i love my friends and family i wont cut" and it worked. maybe you can try something like that.

[els7158]

Yeah, well I cut and it is really horrible and like an addiction liek everyone else said. But there are ways that I have tried to help stop. I have one friend that I can talk bout it with becuase he used to do dis too.And I completely trust him becuase we used to go out and now were just really good friends. And he stopped by keeping ur mind off of it and just staying strong. And try to call people and talk to them instead of cutting urself. Because I gess talking about it would help. Sometiems that works momentarily, but I still cant stop.

It really is a horrible addiction and if you havent started, dont. And if you have, try to quit if you can.

[soulgetpast]

haha wtf is this

this is ridiculous this girl cuts her self someone call the hospital
shit this is bad to be on here



clean it up

[*Intercourse.*]

Really old topic, don't really see why it is still open since the chick doesn't even come online anymore?

Anyway if you wanted to really quit, I'm pretty positive that you could quit.

[lonely-nl]

shit!!!
hey i thought i was the only one who cuts! is it a "girls issue"???
or it happens to anyone? cuz im getting scared!

[RAWRstephishere]

I kinda know how you feel, it seems to take your problems away.

But they are still there, it doesnt solve anything.

Talk to your friends about your problems, or if you dont feel comfortable talk to some online people. It really does help.

[JustAnotherTeena...]

Ugh, cutting really is like an addiction. I cut. But I want to stop. I know it's really hard for a non-cutter to understand, why someone would want to hurt themselves like that, if you haven't been in the situation it seems crazy. But idk...I don't cut for attention or anything. I do it in places where people won't see, like my legs. Maybe occasionally on the arms but I just tell people my cat scratched me or something. When you're really depressed or angry or whatever, it's weird having your body feel so numb while your head is going insane. It's frustrating. Doesn't feel right. The body needs to be in pain too for a reality shock or something. And cutting...idk. I feel the pain...but I don't really at the same time. The tearing/slicing sensation of the skin matches how I feel inside and it feels good for it to be physical, not trapped in my mind. And I actually like when it starts bleeding like mad too. Feels like my frustrations are in that blood, pouring out of me. Weird & rather creepy, I know. But I feel so much calmer afterwards. I need to find a new outlet though. I know it's not good to do it, unhealthy. I hate the scars. & I'm afraid someone will catch on. But it's hard.

[ladycrusader.14]

i understand; cutting yourself is a high.
haha i never want to stop.

[niciDOOM]

i used to cut and i know exactly what
you mean by addicting. but its really
easy to stop it. you just have to want
it bad enough and if you cant then you
know somethings wrong. for me it was
alittle difficult but if i added up the pain i
would bring on the others if i continued
this i would totally get over my own. so for
me personally thinking not only about myself
but of others saved me.

hope whatever you do you're oke with it

[shortnsweet88]

I have, in the past, cut myself. It does not however feel good even though it is addicting. I got to the point where I would cut myself or harm myself with anything I could find. I would draw hearts on my hand by poking holes into my hand with a paperclip. I would use an eraser back and forth on my arms until I started to bleed. The satisfaction of cutting yourself is the only part that feels good...and it is very very simple to stop. You just, must stop. Quit. People take things so lightly these days. Death, suicide, injury, cutting, depression, sex, alcohol, drugs....why? Why would you take this so lightly...your first reason to quit cutting yourself was so that you could wear short sleeve tshirts? How about so that you dont get an infection? Or hit the wrong spot and kill yourself? Or become more depressed than you already are simply by cutting yourself? I dontknow...I just think you need to quit.

[kourtneyroxs]

Cutting is like an addiction like drugs are addiction. You can never stop when you want. I've been cutting/carving for 3 yrs. It feels so good but I can't go on like this. I want to wear short sleeves. Ugh..Also I could go to a mental ward. I'm not going to tell my therapist because she will kill me..What should I do?

I just cut myself 11 times last night. why? My best best friend is joining the Navy. I won't see him for years. We were planning on doing stuff and I thought he would just stay by me but
he didn't. I feel the same, and i have really bad marks but at the time i wanted to just inflict pain on myself for loving him. I was stupid,but now i am worried it might scar or i might not be able to stop. idk. can anyone help me here? I am not telling anyone but you guys on here.
I told my friend this morning and she flipped out so i am not telling anyone else outside the
internet.


The bad part is that it didn't hurt at all. It was like nothing. I need ADVICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don't want to be an addict!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't want to be labled either. I want to be saved before I do somthing I can't cover up.
I never felt these feelings before. This isn't like me.

[*mishyerr*]

I've been cutting for more than 4 years. I used to do it every day, but now I rarely do it. I guess it's something you have to let go of yourself. Nobody can tell you to stop. I remember the reason I slowed down was b/c my friend started, too, and it scared the shit out of me.

[lonely-nl]

this is getting serious!!!
the last time i cut myself was a couple of days ago, it was a small cut but my blood was really light this time!!! it was like "light red nail polish"!!!
it used to be way darker than this before! but now it's "LIGHT" and im afraid!
my friend knows i cut and everytime she sees a new cut she just smacks me! so i stopped telling her! and i dont know what to do!

just to let the non-cutters know... we dont cut because we want to hurt our selves! for me and most of the cutters that i know it's because seeing blood makes us feel better! it's the color not the pain! my nail polish is the same color and i cant change it!

[kourtneyroxs]

lighter blood can mean a lot of things. either your cutting yourself too much or your white blood cells are trying to close it and when you re-open it all of that comes out. dont worry.

[cute_poison]

i agree with all those pll who think its hard to stop. it is.It’s like a drug yes. Its something you canrt controll. Yeah I cut. Ive got cutts now onn me.

i do it like 2ice in a week. i hate it like when ppl say oh you should stop. but u cant just STOP its hard.

[datass]

Wear a rubber band, next time you want to cut yourself, slap the rubber band against your wrist.

[cornytu]

Cutting yourself can be soothing but it doesn't help at all. Really, really. Losing your blood cells in an alarming rate is seriously not a good idea to start with anyways. You should really stop it.

Avoid anything that involves you, cutting yourself. Try brightening up your days a bit more.

[Glamxxcore]

I'm sorry but i really feel like people who don't cut or self-injure themselves really don't know what it feels like after you do it.
it gives you the biggest high ever that you never want it to go away.
it becomes so addicting that it gets rid of everything that you feel you can't deal with and it puts you into control of some part of your life.
it's the same thing as if you were to use drugs.
they both can kill you but with cutting you can see the effects of it on the outside, where as drugs you can't really tell.
why would you want to come down on someone for something that they are addicted to?
everyone is addicted to something.