I'm depressed and have turned to cutting

Try replacing this harmful habit with a positive one. Every time you get the urge to cut, run a lap around your house/home/apartment. Or get up and do 15 sit-ups. 

i also have dont the whole cutting thing. i did it for years on my arms at first and would tell my mother that i fell on the play ground, or the dog scratched me, but that can only go on for so long. eventually i moved to my thighs and underwear line so i could really feel the pain all day long, and eventually moved on to pouring rubbing alcohal or hand sanitizer in to the fresh wound wen i was done. do u get my point ? it will never be enough pain. i was rather little when this started and when it was discovered by my mother because a friend had told my brother who had told her. i was then put into therapy, i wasnt trusted for a very long time, and i was put on anit-depresents. my therapist suggested that i wear a rubber band on my wrist and anytime i feel like cutting to snap it till the urge passes. unfortunatly a rubber band just wasnt for me. so she told me to keep a journal just for her eyes. i was to write in it everytime i felt like cutting and why. and at the end of each week, i would turn in tho journal and she would read it, then we would move on with therapy with the problems that came up in my journal. but needless to say i NEEDED the pain. it was the only thing i could control. its been 5 yrs since that time and it has gotton better and worse. i am to this very day in therapy and have moved on to more dangerous things to i guess i would say to feel something. you have to find a way out or u can become just like me. numb......the ppl you love will in your mind, start to drift away because you simply dont CARE about life. find something to care about is my advice and stick to it. i found someone. she is a bestfriend and like a mother to me. and every time i want to do something stupid, i think of her and how disapointed she would be. but it can be anything to a school activity, a sport, an excersise, even a food. for example every time you feel the urge u have to chug a glass of cold milk. it will simply take your mind off of it because your to buisy thinking of how cold your throut is ! give it a shot and good luck ! do try to get into some counceling tho. it can really help.
Good Luck , Ranchin_Girl2210

hiya guest,

i used to cut. cutting relaeses endorphins in the body which makes you feel nice and calm, thats the very addictive property of cutting.

i cut because i had no tangible, no conforting way of expressing my intense emotions. Where i live, theres social workers or psychotherapists that can help you, because ppl who cut really need attention, caring, an listening non-judgemental ear and love id say.

Try to find someone to talk to. Talking always helps to figure things out and solutions.

Support groups, psychotherapy, etc.

I stopped cutting once i decided i wouldnt be my worst enemy anymore, but my own best friend. That i would love myself unconditionally, not rumble with my hurt,frustration and fear,  and never hurt myself again.