Most of you here are all young, you really do have time to stop before you do your body some serious scarring. You might not realize it now, but every time you cut, you leave a mark on your body forever! It may seem like it helps you now, but eventually the scars will stare at you and remind you of how much you hate yourself for what you have done, and then you want to cut more. I am 24 and have some very horrible scars because no one would listen, but I tell you something, whatever is destroying your life, and trust me, you all know what it is deep down! you need RID! it will not stop until you do, we are cutters, this is how we end the pain, we make it this way. No one else, US! It helps, I'm not going to lie, but, it is highly addictive, so if you feel like you can stop now, DO it! If not, you will mutilate your skin, it will turn from cutting to burning and bruising and it will only make you feel worse in the long run because you have to start hiding. You start hiding and you wil hide forever!
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first off let me tell you there is NOTHING wrong with you!! you may be depressed but that does not mean anything..i had the same problem from 7th grade till 9th grade some good advice i can give you is sourround yourself with people you love being around and can make you laugh and be happy. Take all your sad music and toss it to the side! that was a big factor with me. NO DRAMA! it causes stress escape through a book i LOVE reading cause it helps me escape when im sad. Dont dwell to much on the past..exspecially if its painful..drugs only make it worse(i never did them but im putting this in just in case) find a someone you can talk to without them judging or telling like a counsiler..when i was in middle school mine helped alot. be active it helps(thought im really lazy..but like really skinny lol)
i hope this helps
P.s. life does suck at times and cutting is just as addictive as any drug..you just have to be stong..its hard..I KNOW..but you can do it:D
i hope this helps
P.s. life does suck at times and cutting is just as addictive as any drug..you just have to be stong..its hard..I KNOW..but you can do it:D
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hi my name is amy and i think im gone mad cause i just cut myself and i cant stop doing it and i dont no what to do please help me i am really scared of telling my mom and dad cause they might think im mad so i need someone to talk to cause i am really diprest PLEASE HELP ME :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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I am 14 and a little while ago i started scratching the skin off my knuckles, it didn't hurt at the time and i think it was as a distraction from being lonely. When my friends found out they said i had a problem and that i needed help and that i should stop as i was just turning people away from me. I didn't believe them i thought it was just weird thing for me to be doing as i was bored. Now i am not so sure. Yesterday i found myself carving a heart into my hand making a heart shaped bloodstream. It again made me stop thinking about my problems. The reason for my self harming is probably not important nothing severe has happened but i lack confidence in myself and i take what people think of me personally and worry about everything. I am worried i have a problem but i can't tell my parents. I don't know what to do :'(
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I understand what many of you are going thru. And it is a bit of a comfort to know im not 100% crazy or alone in how i feel. I am almost 19, and have been seriously struggling with cutting and other slef-injury for the past 6 years now. I have a psychologist who only make me more frustrated, and I dont feel as though I can be honest when i do cut or hurt myself. I also have a case manager through my college. She is a great help, and has helped with getting my cutting less frequent, but I have found, while it is not as frequent, they are worse and worse cuts each time that bleed for at least 4-5 days before I can get them to stop. I'm not sure what to do anymore, and Im not very trusting of people so I dont know who to go to. Everything is spiriling out of control and i cant catch hold of it. I'm trying and open to all options, but what do I do when nothing is working?
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Your not alone, my dad did the same if not worse to me, i've cut myself since elementary, im addicted to pills weed and beer.... i got away from my dad when i was about 16 and im 19 now, i still do all these things, i don't how to stop either.... but i can tell you, you are not alone..... but the other girls out there in your situation may need someone like you or me to let them know that.... so keep yourhead up, its hard, but at least this life is temporary
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i started cutting myself wheni was in the 6th grde ndeverybody knew about it. They acted different aroundme and i didnt like it.They thought i wasa freak. i stopped cutting myself because i have something worth to live for. You know,i wanna be this famous actress one day and if i keep doind it then no casting dirctor is going to chose me.So i just stop and think about the positive. I think if i keep doing this then what future oppurtunities am i closing myself to. Itsnot easy to stop, but its possible.
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When you get the urges to cut, what do you do instead of it, and/or realize what you are doing before you actually do it? How did you stop yourself?
When you get the urges to cut, what do you do instead of it, and/or realize what you are doing before you actually do it? How did you stop yourself?
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hi, i'm 13 and i cut to. i used to use siccors but today i unscrewed my eyeliner sharpener and used the blade from it. my sister and a few of my friend know and they all want me to stop. I started last year in sixth grade(no i've never been held back) and was able to stop. but this year my friend came out and told us she started cutting for the first time. i had restarted a few weeks before she said anything but told them that day after she said something. i felt more comfortable not being alone. now i got addicted to it within the first three days of starting again. i kind of want to stop and i resorted to a pro con list but pro's won. i like the feeling i get when i cut. i used to be so upset all the time that i would cry myself to sleep. but since i started cutting again about two months ago i haven't cried at all. it's gotten so addictive that i've done it at school a few times. i want to stop because of the guilt it gives me after i cut which causes me to do it again. How can i stop without telling our school counselor, my parents, or a therapist?
can i talk to my friends????
can i talk to my friends????
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eHi,
I have been cutting for the last 8 years, but recently it is just on and off. When i was 9 years old i was raped, and by the time i was 10 i was removed from my home from the court. The reason it happened was because i never told anybody about the rape then, so i started cutting myself, thinking that was the only thing i could do. Not long after i got into drugs and my parents went crazy. after a year of craziness i was put into shelter care, i was in shelter care for 2 years and then i was in and oout of juvie and mental hospitals for another two yea.rs and i was crazy. i was put back into shelter care and i ran away. i lived on the streets for another two and a half years and i was a prostitute. I have seen people die by getting shot, overdosing, and many more. But the whole time all this was happening i had my cutting and drugs so i was just dandy. I was arrested with warrent for my arrest and i was only 16. i went to actual jail and that was hell. I still managed to cut myself even there. I was only in jail for a few months and was released to foster care. For another year ii was in foster care. that was horrible. I am finally back home, and very successful with myself. Though once and a while i do cut myseelf because i miss the feeling. My point is..... no matter how life gets for any of you reading this, just think to yourself, is it really worth all the scars and regrets,also not only are you scarring yourself, but you are scarring everybody around you. It may feel good, but in the end it really is not worth the pain . I regret everyday for doing what i did to my body, it is not reversable. So if you have options to see a therapist, please take the opportunity to save yourself. That will be worth it in the end. As i also read most of your forums, you are very young so if you don't have the opportuniity to seee a therapist. Go to your school. Talk to someone you trust.
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Im 22 and I've been cutting since I was 11. I never goes away.
I feel like im over it and then next thing I know I wake up and I've got cuts everywhere.
I've learnt not to cut my wrists so my legs and upper arms are destroyed.
Im pathetic. the whole thing is pathetic.
it doesnt solve sh*t. it just f**ks up everything even more than things should be screwed up.
I can go a year or more without cutting and all of a sudden im cutting everything.
This is a serious disease. Its just as bad as bulimia, anorexia, drugs..anything.
I feel like im over it and then next thing I know I wake up and I've got cuts everywhere.
I've learnt not to cut my wrists so my legs and upper arms are destroyed.
Im pathetic. the whole thing is pathetic.
it doesnt solve sh*t. it just f**ks up everything even more than things should be screwed up.
I can go a year or more without cutting and all of a sudden im cutting everything.
This is a serious disease. Its just as bad as bulimia, anorexia, drugs..anything.
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Hi
I have been cutting myself for two years now. I found something that really helped was using the butterfly method.
you draw a butterfly on your wrist or wherever you were going to cut and the you write the name of some one who you love under it. If you cut yourself you kill the butterfly and you have hurt the person written on your wist.
if you have multiple butterflys drawn one cut kills them all.
Hope I helped :)
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I used to be a cutter. It's insane. I felt that if I could hurt myself more than someone else could hurt me (emotionally, physically) they could not hurt me. I did this for about 10 years. BTW I'm not young, it doesn't discriminate. I am 57. I would cut myself where it wouldn't obviously show. ie in the winter arms and legs were ok. In summer/spring belly, chest, buttocks. I have scars all over the place that people esp doctors will ask me about. The last time I cut myself, ,my weapon of choice had become a utility knife. I cut my left arm from shoulder to wrist, just enough to bleed. Then I cut my right arm. I must of got some momentum and depth, the cut was about 2" wide and I have no idea how deep. I screamed for my neighbor to take my knives away from me, she took a look at me and called 911. I called her a "b***h" when I figured out she had called 911. I shoved her out of my apt, wrapped a bath towel around my arm and ran out the door to my car. Ahhhhhhhhhhh cops went to the wrong entrance!!! When I got to the front of the complex it looked like a swat team. Cop busted out my door window as I wouldn't get out, and pointed his taser at me. I didn't want to die, so I got out screaming "don't take me to the psych hospital". I had 2 sets of stitches, a cauterizing instrument to stop my 2 arteries I had cut to stop bleeding, and staples on the outside. I have never cut myself again. This was over 5 yrs ago. A therapist once told me, when you're done cutting, you'll stop. She was right. There is hope, it's in YOU.
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im chantel and ive been cutting myself for 4 years. i have had a bad life but i tell myself that it will all get better. i told my friends and i told teachers, and ive been to cousling but it never helped. my mother always said that i did it becuase i wanted people to look at me... i wanted atteintion. i did it because i felt like c**p. i thought poeple hated me like i hated myself. i think hat im ugly and stupid and dimb... and people keep telling me that i am wrong. but in my mind... thats what i am. i hate cutting myself because i have to look at the scares and cry because i did them and they look ugly. i wanna stop cuttingbut when people think that im doing it because i need attention... then there is no point telling anybody.
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