Cutting Yourself?

Ok, so I was wondering if anyone else out there doesn't see anything wrong with cutting yourself.

I don't cut myself I was just having a conversation with a friend about it and I don't see anything wrong with it. If you're not doing it so you can run around and show everyone how cool you are and you're not trying to kill yourself I don't really see a problem with it...and plenty of people do it that aren't crying for help or trying to kill themselves.

So does anyone else agree? If you disagree, why? I'd like to discuss the topic.

 

Seems to me like it wouldn't be a big problem in the now, but as you get older and possibly have children... they'll most likely see your scars and ask why you have them.

 

might not present an actual problem for the cutter..its just fucking stupid and wrong on every level....why?..the pain?...hit yourself in the finger with a hammer....as a turn on?...sick fucks do that...its a sickness..or at the least a huge symptom of being sick

 

ya dude you have to be like mentally unstable to cut yourself its fucking pointless and weird

 

its kinda like a nervous tic in the sense that you go to a place in your head to get away.
thats the only reason i would consider it bad. like pain being a way to cope is not a healthy way of thinking.

i used to cut, and i would do it when i was depressed to the point of frustration and anger, i guess you can consider it hate. i wasnt really able to sit down in my room to chill and relax from that point of hate so i would act on it.

i dont think its a bad thing overall, but like any addiction, its not healthy in excess.
its more of a phase thing.

 

Cutting ones self is to voiceless cry for help
as
A bully punching someone is to...

A)knowing they're stronger
B)wanting dork to cry for help
C)cry for attention

 

I used to cut and I really have to disagree. You don't do it unless there's something wrong. I didn't do it for attention, I did it because I didn't have a healthy means of dealing with the anger and general angst that comes with adolescence. I remember how it felt, I remember the desire to do it, and even why I did, but I know as bad as the urges were then, I've had way way worse and much more tragic things happen in my life since I quit, and it hasn't even crossed my mind. There are better and healthier ways of dealing with inner pain than self-injuring and they really aren't that hard to discover.

 

I have never cut (too squeamish) but I've given myself some mean punches, even recently. It does serious harm. It harms because it allows an unhealthy manner of dealing with things to continue, making your whole mentality messed up. It hurts those who love you more deeply than it hurts you.

It can damage your body. Cutting damages nerves and capillaries and if you're unlucky, veins. You may also get infections. All this means your body has to constantly put its energy into healing itself, making your immune system depressed and putting your health at greater risk.

Scars can be permanent and will raise questions and concerns from others for years.

Mostly it harms because it is a symptom of something much deeper. If you walk around with the "I'm only harming myself so it's ok" mentality, you're leaving a mental illness untreated. This will develop into something too big to handle if you're not careful.

 

i've got a terribly scarred left arm. it's not cool, i regret it.

i used a bread knife and cut through every layer of skin, saw the inside of my arm and had stitches. never did it again

bit graphic, but the point is there. it's dumb. people always ask.

 

My little sister used to cut. She was bullied at school but stopped talking about it and one morning when my mum went to get her up, she was lying in bed with a pair of scissors and her school shirt, putting pressure on her wounds. It broke my mums heart and was only the beginning of so much more.

8 years later and she's been hospitalised twice (maybe even three times, I'm not sure) in that time and she's covered in purple, pink, silver scars on her arms, stomach, legs, everywhere. And the cuts do become serious. She's tried to cut herself internally and she's cut veins and been taken to hospital with blood spurting out of her like a fountain.

Though it seems superficial, the damage is deeper than that.

 

yeah and yeah, only one the verge of distruction do u know what ur capable of, i cand say i wavent wouldnt want to say i have, with that said ive been there before and rember the mind set, if u have a mate doing that take them to ur safe place so they can chill, for me it was just apart of growing up and finding my self, who knows tho ive never evan considered doing it since

 

as you get older, you realise there are other ways to release the pain

beer... or the murder of prostitutes, you know, just normal stuff.

 

hmmm...Idk most of you guys are saying its not a healthy means of dealing with problems...I don't really see whats unhealthy about it...and "you might accidentally hit a major vein" isn't really a health concern. Honestly if you're not an idiot its not that hard to avoid doing that.

Others have said its not a proper means of dealing with your problems??? It's only hiding from them instead of facing them....but if someone likes to jog or lift weights or something like that when they're upset isn't that the same thing??? Replacing your emotions with a physical task...and I don't think anyone would argue that people who jog when they're upset aren't handling their problems the right way and need to face them. So what's the difference?

 

Harming yourself and jogging is like comparing chickens and trees.

 

Well, I don't judge people, but.... I've never understood cutting or the urge to cut at all. I've gone through problems--maybe not as bad as some people--but I've never seen reason to self-harm to deal with them. That's not to say I necessarily deal with them in a generally productive way though.

 

I have a close friend who did it for years, one night, the last night, he cut his wrist and a chunk right out of his arm.

He's okay now, but one day his daughter is going to ask why daddy's arm has big funny marks on it, and he's going to have to lie until she's older. Or tell her and freak her the fuck out.

Anyways, there's much better ways to abuse one's body.

 

Sorry, I wasn't meaning to compare them in a literal sense, more in sense of you're using both of them as a means of temporarily replacing some emotion...So if you think cutting is wrong by that it causes you to ignore some issue instead of resolving it the right way would you not consider jogging or something like that to be doing the same thing?

I know its a loose comparison and jogging is obviously better for someone then cutting themselves, I get that, I'm just saying...when referring to replacing your problems with something instead of straight up dealing with them I feel like they're similar in that way. So if cutting's wrong based on that logic I feel like using anything to temporarily block out an emotion should be considered wrong too.

 

Cutting is a terrible habit to have. A good friend of mine growing up was a cutter. It ended up causing more emotional damage than she had before she started. She began replacing emotional pain with physical pain with a lot more than cutting.

There are plenty of ways to solve emotional dilemmas than to use a razor or a knife and cut your skin.

 

I cut my self regularly(although im not proud of it). I have some permanent scars on me and i have tried to cut myself till i onced poped open a vein.
I find self-harm to be the only way out when im in a bad state of mind, the time when i see tears soaking up my tee and it only hurts in a different way. The surging denial from the people around you and the guilty conscience makes me grab a blade and slash it across my skin. It doesnt have to be deep just enough to let a slow stream of blood to flow out. A euphoria sets in, it feels like emotions come to life, my tears at this moment have feelings. Those problem rush down my head and i plunge back from an empty dark room to a safe sanctuary in my own head.
I might not pick up the blade if the problems stop beating in my head for the moment but the guilt and the pain doesnt let me be. A few cuts more till i have some white flesh in sight.
I think its my only way out and i have tried other ways. This works for me. Its my exit from the sudden rush of those negative emotions. I dont go around showing the people or craving for attention, its a moment i have to let pass through. No one has to know..

 

I don't see it as healthy on any level. if you think digging a knife into your arm is the only way to feel better you need to talk to other people.

Cutting your self is just like bullimia, anerexia or or any addiction, i have a friend who'd hear someone talking about her and would go to the bathroom and slash up her arms. its unhealthy.

There's other ways to express pain.