I cut and i cant stop?

Question

i have tryed relly really hard to stop when my parents make me mad or sad i run into my room and grab the knife i cut on my arm and stomach
and dont call me emo!!!!!!!
and im already going to councling but not for it and i am not going to tell my parents

Answer 1

I know this may sound jerky, but if you can't stop, it means you don't want to. You say you want to stop and post a question because you want attention. So for that I say:

"Hi Gina."

...okay? Now throw away the knives or whatever, grow up, get over yourself, and stop cutting. There are people in the world with real problems.

Answer 2

I did the same thing when I was a teen. I did grow out of it. But what helped me was when I had a problem I talked to a good friend. I didn't tell her what I was doing but what was making me upset. Luckily I had good friend so if you don't, write it down how you feel. You don't have to show it to anyone. But you need a way to get it out other then the way you are doing.

Answer 3

Think of when you get older,and your kids ask "Mommy what are those??" and also try an alternative, talk it out with a friend, or do something that will get cutting off your mind, start collecting something, or do something good for yourself. In exchange, you will feel happier about yourself, and you don't want to risk your life over ANYTHING.

Answer 4

maybe you should just stop.. its that easy, like quitting smoking, all you have to do it nothing at all!

when you get mad just scream into a pillow or something, just think about how ugly the cuts look and how many viruses and diseases could get into your body through a cut .. for instance, the only way you can contract AIDS through your skin is through an open wound, no matter how small. something to think about..

you should also think about he more likely consequense of infection, and in hospitals most deaths are caused by infection.
if you get one of your cuts infected, you could end up with something as major as gangreen to a point where you have to have limbs removed.

think about what you're doing before you do it.

Answer 5

You really need to get help for this. Please talk to you school counselor or an adult that you can trust as soon as possible. In the meantime when you feel like you are going to start cutting give that feeling a different outlet, such as running.

Answer 6

talk to your counselor about it and see what he/ she thinks. cutting is dangerous and you know that, that is why you asked for help. i think you know you need help but you think you are not ready to give up that release. from what i understand the pain of cutting leads to a feeling of release. so you have to find another outlet. maybe talking to your counselor specifically will help or maybe the suggestion of running when i get upset i run until i feel like my legs may fall off to keep me from doing something destructive. i hope that you find a better outlet soon

Answer 7

Swami Sukhabodhananda



One youngster comes to me very depressed and asks this question "Why is God creating so many difficulties for us? How to handle stress?" I tell this youngster to reflect on this beautiful story:

A man goes to a shop, picks up a beautiful cup and says "my god this cup is so beautiful" and suddenly the cup starts talking to the man. The cup starts saying "O man, I am beautiful right now, but what was the state of my being before the pot-maker made me a beautiful pot?

Before I was sheer mud and the pot-maker pulled me out of the mud from the mother earth and I felt why that pot-maker is so cruel, he has separated me from mother earth. I felt a tremendous pain. And the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me and churned me, when I was churned I felt so giddy, so painful, so stressful, I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then he put me into a oven and heated me up, I felt completely burnt. There was tremendous pain and I asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait."

Then he poured hot paint on me and I felt the fume and the pain, I again asked the pot-maker "Why are you so cruel?" and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." Then again he put me into an oven and heated it to make me more strong, I felt life is so painful hence pleaded the pot-maker and the pot-maker said, "Just wait." And after that the pot-maker took me to the mirror and said, "Now look at yourself". And surprisingly I found myself so beautiful.

When god gives us lot of trouble, it appears god is very cruel but we need patience and we have to wait. When bad things happen to good people, they become better and not bitter.

So all difficulties are part of a cosmic design to make us really beautiful. We need patience, we need understanding, we need the commitment to go through in a very calm and wise way. So all difficulties are not to tumble us but to humble us.

With this understanding, let us not be against difficulty. Understand difficulty is a part of a purifying process. A purifying process at present which we cannot understand and hence we need faith and we need trust.

Let us understand how to handle stress with this background. You can be affected by stress from two angles. There is an internal stress and there is an external stress. Nobody can avoid stress; one has to only manage stress. Managing stress can be internal and also external.

The internal stress is; your thoughts can create stress, your values can create stress, and your beliefs can create stress, meaning thereby your stress is coming from your mind more from the outer world. Many people suffer not from heart attack - they suffer from thought-attack.

For example, when somebody says you are an idiot, we get so hurt, we get so victimised. My boss has called me an idiot and I am feeling tremendous pain. Now where does this stress come from? If my boss has called me an idiot, I have to ask myself "am I an idiot"?

If I am an idiot nothing to be upset about; and if I am not an idiot, then also nothing to be upset about! It is the perception of the boss. But why do we suffer from that stress? I suffer not because my boss has called me an idiot but because of the thought-attack.

I may say the boss has called me an idiot; therefore I am suffering? It is true that the words are unpleasant. But what hurts is the interpretation of the unpleasant word. The thought in me interprets. That is pain and therefore it becomes pain. Much of our stress is our mind interpreting it as pain. So we suffer from thought-attack more than heart attack.

Answer 8

Know that cutting is often a way of exerting control over situations that feel out of your control. Talk to your counselor about it.

Answer 9

Someday, in the future, if you make it there.....(and I'm not trying to be a jerk here)....you will have to answer for those scars. Imagine trying to explain those scars to your daughter or your son....or the man you want to marry. Think beyond that one moment and time and make a better choice for that moment as well as your future!

Answer 10

There is always help for people like you. This is not something to be ashamed of for telling someone else. I would talk to your local life stress counseling person,they deal with that kind of thing.