How do I..........?

Question

how do i quit cuttin

Answer 1

Pray about the situation. God bless you for admitting you have a problem and wanting to stop it. Also here are some tips:

1.Keep a hotline number with you at all times. When you feel the urge to cut, pick up the phone and call the hotline. Crisis Hotline staff are trained to provide support and offer you alternatives to cutting yourself. However, you should remember that a professional crisis clinician will be clear that it is NOT his or her job to "talk you out of" cutting yourself - you make your own choices, and you must take responsibility for cutting or not cutting. Do not be ashamed to ask for support when you need it, as this affliction affects people from all walks of life.

2.Remove cutting tools from your immediate area. If you have to take the time to look for something with which to cut yourself, you may find you have just given yourself enough time to deal with the impulse.

3.Identify the 'trigger' that gives you the urge to cut. The moment you have the urge to cut, stop and think of what has just occurred. Remember it and try to avoid these situations! When they do occur, try to create another outlet. Walk away, eat ice cream, take a shower or bubble bath, go out for a jog, go for a swim, call a friend for coffee at the local coffeehouse but do not cut.

4.As soon as you feel the urge to cut yourself, take a deep breath, fold your arms, close your eyes and relax. Tell yourself that you are not going to cut. If possible, lie down somewhere. Stay like this until the urge goes, then quickly phone a helpline or use another means of getting help.

5.Find another way to vent. Cutting is a way to release some type of pain or frustration. Try painting, writing about your feelings, singing, dancing, playing an instrument, or playing a sport. Try anything you can (as long as it's legal and healthy) to stop the urge to cut.

6.Release the pain without cutting by using your voice. Talk to someone--a doctor, teacher, friends, your parents if you can. You will be surprised how relieved you will feel after you talk about it. If you chose a doctor or a counselor, they can get you the help you need to heal the underlying cause. Speak out loud about what is causing you so much pain. Talk about it - even to yourself, in the privacy of your bedroom. Yell or scream - anything to release the tension inside of you - but do not cut.

7.Help yourself by imagining that you are your best friend. If she was just about to cut herself, what would you say to stop it?

8.Try snapping elastic bands on your wrists. Rubber bands can be used to give that sharp shot of pain you get from cutting, without being dangerous to your health. (Note: wider rubber bands can leave marks which eventually fade away but not for a day or so.) You can also try holding an ice cube against your wrist, and/or drawing on your skin with red marker. The ice will hurt, but it will not cause any real damage. Note that while this helps some cutters, for other cutters it triggers thoughts which encourage cutting. In addition, it does not eliminate the drive for self-harming behavior and therefore some people recommend against using this technique at all. It is listed here only as a temporary alternative to more damaging activities.

9.Recognize that cutting is just the symptom of a root problem. Follow the above steps to stop yourself from cutting, but also seek help from a doctor, parent, or counselor to address the deeper problems that make you want to cut in the first place.

Tips
•Ask your guidance counselor if your school has a weekly group session. If they do, join it, it will help you make it through your situations and tough times. If your school doesn't have a group, then start one by talking to your school counselor about starting a group to be held after school. If you are not in school, you can start a group yourself or find an existing group locally usually through local crisis centers and clinics. You can place printed ads in your school and in public places. This in itself can be therapeutic.
•If going to a group session in "real life" seems like too much for you, you can join forums or cutters groups online to help you.
•Cutting is as much an addiction as smoking or alcohol. Stop it one day at a time, or one moment at a time. Give yourself time and determination to stop.
•Talking to another person is the best way to get help, but if you do not feel comfortable with that try journaling about your feelings.
•Think about how it will affect your relationships with others.

Hope this helps.... God bless you.

Answer 2

Well, if a prayer will help I'll definitely say one. If you haven't sought counseling you really need to in order to stop this self destructive act. When you reach a point , as you have you have it is important to get to the root of the troubles that have caused your thought process to become so twisted that you are harming yourself. I've never met you but I can tell you this you don't have to hurt yourself. Your body is not some object to toyed with. Your spirit is housed inside of your body and ever time you cut no matter how minor you think it is it is an unnecessary act of violence against yourself. I hope that you will consider this thought... you don't have to hurt yourself and you deserve to understand why you've done this in the past so that your future can be happy. I'm so sorry to hear that you are hurting yourself. I hope you will stop. Please don't hurt yourself again...

Answer 3

Oh, that's not good. U can't keep doing that, u'll lose too much blood. They're are other ways to be depressed, without cutting urself. Do what I do, it may not help, but instead, I tend to eat less, or listen to music A LOT, or just keep writting down what u feel in some personal book. Or even better, tell someone.
That's what I always do w/ my friends, and they're always there. Plz don't cut urself anymore. Kay?

Answer 4

Get rid of all your tools except for one, then only use it if you really really need to.. when you have the urge, try to do something else to get your mind off of it. it takes along time, sometimes you feel like your never going to be able to stop and somethimes you feel like you have a handle on it and BANG your all bloody again. it takes time. just set your mind to stopping and you will..

Answer 5

.......seperate from your associate's who do it,....and try to get youself back on the straight and narrow again, away from the wrong crowd and influence's.......Good on you for making a start,.. but if yuh stumble and fall down sometime's,.rest yuh self up,.then get back up, and keep going until yuh succeed in quittin yuh stuff.......Good Luck!,..and keep on trying until you get there...

Answer 6

keep a picture in your wallet, purse, ext. of someone you idolize and love and everytime you want to cut imagine them walking in on you cutting.and does it realy feel good? talk to me if you want more advice. respond to oone of my questions.

Answer 7

Get some help. If you really want to stop you can do it with professional help.

Answer 8

talk to people about it and try and get a best friend someone you can talk to and when you feel like cutting yourself talk to them. You can talk to me

Answer 9

go get help from a doctor...please before its too late

Answer 10

go to counseling. tell your parents or whatever and get this problem fixed. that is unnatural.