Why do people cut them selves?

Question

Theres other ways to realease the pain. If you feel this way e-mail [e-mail]. I will help you the best I can.

Answer 1

People do it because they feel they have no way in life. They want attention because they don't have it and they really want it.

Answer 2

People cut to get a releif of some sort from a problem that they may not even remember, but somewhere in their mind it is still haunting them. They don"t know any other way to cope with it, so they cut, if they have been cutting for a long time then it is going to be hard to get them to use an healthier way then cutting. They also find that after a while that they have to cut more and more, cause they are not getting as long as a relief as the did in the begining . A lot of them do not want to go and seek help for the problem, cause they are ashamed of cutting, and they try to hide the fact that they are cutting. They just need to go in and see a therapist, and learn some new coping skill (health ones) as they are bring up the issues that they have stuffed so deep within themselves. So they need to work through those issues too.

Answer 3

people don't cut for attention. that's a load of crap. there's easier ways to get attention than doing that. some people cut because they feel empty inside or if there's a void. generally cutters feel that people won't listen to them and they feel isolated and depressed. when i use to cut myself it was a release of all the hurt and pain i felt at the time. there was something soothing about watching yourself bleed. I don't do it anymore but i'm badly scarred for life. So i'd recommend others try and find something else. But it's normal nowdays anyway. Society is so screwed up and no one genuinely cares or wants to listen and if you believe otherwise you are naive. Why would someone want to find another way to release their pain when this works?

Answer 4

They do it for different reasons. One is to feel the pain and another is to punish themselves. They are angry! Depression is anger turned inwards.Some people cut themselves for allowing someone else to hurt them and they will in turn hurt themselves all over again because they are angry at themselves.I knew two different women who were cutters. One punished herself because she was angry at herself for getting an abortion.She would cut her tummy so deep I was afraid she cut to deep one day. She did have to have stitches a few times. She is now in recovery and has stopped cutting. She forgave herself for the abortion she was a married woman and it was her husbands baby. They almost had their children grown.They thought they were ready to stop having babies.Her journey was a long one lasting many years.The other lady had a sexual addiction and would have sex with strangers. She cut the word stupid in her thigh. That word will never go away as she had cut it very deep.She also cut a picture of herself in a coffin that did heal. She has many slashes that are scars! She was placed in a nursing home for the mentally ill for her own safety.So for both of these women it was to punish themselves.

Answer 5

Part of it is attention, part of it is just frustration. It's one of those downward spirals - you get into a situation where you just feel like hurting something, and take it out on yourself, and then before you know it you just can't stop. It's mostly teenagers who do it, trying to deal with crazy hormones and the drama of high school, and mostly it's the people who don't want to ask for help.

Answer 6

I believe the reason people cut themselves is because that is the only way they know how to express there selves to others .To let them know that they are deeply emotionally hurting.To them it is the only way to release there feelings.

Answer 7

To punish the body that houses the person I hate, to punish the body for being out of control and getting hungry and thirsty etc.., to let out blood when there is too much blood in the body, to feel a rush of well being, to feel something, anything at all.

Answer 8

I think people cut themselves because they think they are releasing heir pain but in reality its a delusion .when they cut them selves they are taking their minds off their mental pain and focusing on their physical pain therefore they think that they got relief.

Answer 9

It helps with everything.. It releases pain

Answer 10

My 13 year old daughter cuts herself when she's overly stressed, but says that she doesn't realize that she's doing it until she's already cut herself numerous times.