Do you do self-mutilation?

Question

Have you ever done it? if so why? How did you stop?

some of you guys are real *ssholes, you know?

okay, for all you sick f*cking jerks without a heart, ya'll can go to hell. for those of you with real answer's, thank you.

Answer 1

the other night you said you cut your hand on a knife, did you really do it yourself? ryan you need help honey. Its ok to see a therapist and get all the things out that you needed to say a long time ago

Answer 2

I know someone who has. It got to the point where she had to give herself stitches rather get put on 72 hour hold at the hospital. It can get really addictive. She cut herself from the time she was 11 or 12, I think, and she finally stopped when she was 24. I think people who cut should really try to figure out what went wrong in their childhood to cause such self-hatred. 90% of self-mutilators were abused as children. Do the research, and read up on it. There is a book called 'Lost In The Mirror' by Richard Moskovitz,MD, that is about Borderline Personality Disorder, that can be helpful to read. Most cutters have Borderline Personality Disorder.

Answer 3

Yes, I have some deep burns in my hands from being electrocuted. I have a big T carved in my arm from a chainsaw. I have a carved up finger was pretty much filleted to the tendon and bone and 6" scar down the palm of my hand from a paint sprayer, had a thumbnail pulled out to the root but it grew back ok, put a sixteen penny vinyl coated nail through the palm of my hand with a nail-gun, I have three herniated disks in my back, last week I road an extension ladder down a wall and my shins look like hamburger. My hands are covered with scars, my wrists look like a suicide attempt but was really from skin grafts.

As long as I have to make a living, it isn't going to stop.

Sorry but your little cuts and pokes are a daily fact of life for millions of people just trying to make a living. Join the working class and get paid for it.

Answer 4

I have because I felt like I was suffocating. I couldn't breath, I couldn't feel pain after a traumatic event that happened to me in school. I felt numb and so cutting made me feel. There were all kinds of emotions. A part of me felt like I deserved it. But people brought this on me. People can be cruel. During those days it felt absolutely great. It can become very addictive. I talked to a school counselor about it and I didn't want to have any more scars on my body. I was tired of making up excuses for my cuts and so i stopped. I found other ways to release my emotions. Painting, yoga, singing, and intensive running. I lost major weight. I also wrote so many poems. This is the time to become creative. The time when yoy are goin g through intense emotions. Don't cut.

People who don't understand judge.

Answer 5

I used to dig my fingernails into my hands until they made little crescent cuts of blood. It was a nervous habit, and the pain soothed me. For some reason, seeing the evidence of what I had done was calming. Weird huh?

Answer 6

unfortunatly stupid as i am, i have done this before, over bad relationships...i would take a razor blade and cut my arms...with no intentions of severly hurting myself just to take that pain and use it toward the pain of being hurt in the relationship....once i screwed up and took a huge chunk of my skin off my forearm, had 8 stitches...but ive done alot of growing up since then.....just looking back i dont know why i was so stupid to do such things

Answer 7

Yes I have done it. I was depressed and angry, sad, and going through a bad stage in my life (I was being switched around from one anti-depressant to the next, I had some serious mood swings and sleeping problems) which causes alot of problems! I realized what I was doing wasn't right,I started changing my personality, stopped doing drugs, I met someone and I have never been happier. :o) And I have scars to remind me, so I never go to that place again!!!

Answer 8

no, i have never done it, but I knew a girl in high school who did. She eventually stopped once the doctors put her on medication for depression. Her condition was mostly influenced by a chemical unbalance in her system.

Answer 9

Nope

Answer 10

The only people who self mutilate, besides stupid emo kids trying to get attention in a new way they saw on MTV, are all in very big very secure mental institutions. These kids who say they are "cutters" are just following a fad they saw on TV because it looked like the kid on TV got attention by doing it. Real self mutilators don't just lightly cut covered parts of there bodies. I worked with some in Wa. State Mental facilities. Real self mutilators are out to cut off their, or foot, or leg, but usually they try to cut off their genitals.