how do i stop cutting myself?

Question

okay, so i cut myself. i'm depressed and i can't stop doing it. some people may call me goth or emo or whatever but i seriously have to stop. any suggestions?

Answer 1

Hide all of your sharp objects.

Seek therapy.

Answer 2

First, put the knives and razors down. Second, get someone to help you get some serious help. The number of dead young people that either passed out due to alcohol, drugs, or something to do with the sight of blood, or inadvertently cutting too deeply over the site of an artery and ending up dead, is very saddening. What is even sadder, nobody even remembers them about a year to two years later. Some of their "best friends" will say, within two years, "Remember what's-her-name?"

I don't want to be a broken record, but as in the past, I have recommended that running away is far preferable to violence, especially self-inflicted violence, or suicide.

I often run away. I take a trip to where nobody knows me, nobody knows my business, no body gives a darn if I live or die. Then I try to be something other than what I am, or actually stay the same as I always am. Just to see if these strangers accept me and my behavior, or simply my presence without any hassles. I'd recommend that if you are one of those "freaks that dress in black" and "do very strange make-up", that you clean-up, go somewhere out of town, act "normal" or "differently" and see if you are the sort of person that a total stranger would give a darn about. Eye-opening, and allows you a different view of your world.

I don't know you, I don't know if you even really exist, but if you are smart enough to write the email that you did, people will want to help you. I'm not making any offers, because my heart couldn't take the beating if you continued this self-abuse, or, by dog, killed yourself.

Goth is pretty dark, but I'll bet it started out to be fun. Only thing is, it is depressive and seems to have a hard time running it's course and allowing you to return to your "normal".

If I am wrong, please, at least use a clean blade.

Sorry to be so cold and factual, but I can't take too many more losses in my life.

Ricky

Answer 3

Have no idea, but I would say you need to seek professional help.
I get depressed all the time, but don't feel the urge to cut myself. I know that will not help.

Also, I hop you aren't cutting yourself deep enough to leave scars. Because no guy wants a girl with scars all over them. And a girl full of scabs all the time is not attractive either.

Hope you can find whatever you need to get this under control. It's not helpful physically or mentally. What happens when you slip and hit an artery! There would be no more asking questions on Yahoo. That means you'll never make it to the next level! What would life be without ANSWERS?

Answer 4

The key to stopping is figuring out why you do it. Once you know why you cut yourself, you can try to eliminate what triggers it. And I have to agree with the first answer - hide everything you use and then seek therapy. For finding a therapist, you'll need to find someone you connect with. If the connection's not there, it won't do you any good and it'll more or less be beating your head against a wall. Shop around for someone you feel comfortable with and can talk to easily.

Another thing that helped me was the friends I had around me. They supported me and got me through it with minimal physical scarring.

Find something to distract you from it. Whenever you feel the urge to cut yourself, do something else. Find something to replace it. Find another activity that gives you the same feeling of release.

I would also recommend going to VampireFreaks.com. They actually have a support group/forum on there (under "cults." It's a goth thing.) solely devoted to the issue of cutting and suicidal feelings.

The other issue is... are you ready to stop? It's an addiction, like any other, and you have to really, truly want to stop.

If you want, feel free to contact me about it as well. I was a cutter for most of my adolescence and I'm happy to talk with you if you like.

Answer 5

I have been where you are and beyond. I am a suicide I was offically dead for 3 mins and that happened twice the third time I just got over that hump and was almost there. I suggest that you write down whats going on. The bible for some reason helped me and all I did was hate god and blame him. I havent had a suicide attempt in 8-9 yrs. Now that I have come to an understanding with him I read the parts that affect my situation The most. I always thought that my death was meant to be suicide like for someone who died of cancer and heart attacks. I hope that you don't do anything to hurt yourself to that extent. Some people say meds and no it only holds you back but you still might do it. Just read the psalms in the bible that will help cause it feels like your speaking his language he know how to speak yours. I hope that this helps because someone is gonna look for this and find on here later on and you just saved that person from continuing any matters further. Thank you, you could've just saved someone life. =) Sleep on it and find something postitive. I did.
contact me anytime take from someone who is a good person and is going to go to hell. BTW when you die it hurts and time does stop.

Answer 6

I've been really depressed lately too. Telling myself that I'm not good enough for anyone and never was. I told my two best friends, Teddy and Makayla, and they helped me. We went to the guidance counselor and told her my problems but said it was a friend having these problems. We never told who I was and she got me help. Cutting is a way to deal with problems but I don't suggest that. I suggest getting in a support group or being able to tell someone what's wrong. Maybe you should... well I never told my parents what was wrong. And I just go to my room and sometimes I let it bottle up inside me until late that night. When I sleep, I think about everything that happened that day and I just cry myself to sleep; it shouldn't be that way. Talk to someone you trust or talk to a child psychiatrist. I suggest faking a friend and going to the guidance counselor. I need help to, you're not alone. :'(

Answer 7

Oh my, girl, please stop it! For your own sake and plus I care, you shouldnt please! Your cutting your skin, the part of the body that protects you! Imagine your epidermial cells, being bloodily sliced away, isnt that disgusting? You know what, smile. Right now go to the mirror and think happy thoughts, it takes less muscles to smile than to frown. Comeon baby, smile! The world is alright, you dont have it too bad, life is good! Its whats natural and beautiful so dont ruin it. Its so silly to throw away something thats so valuable. If you feel depressed, eat a little chocolate, watch tv, play games, call a friend, talk to your family, tell them you love them! Get outside, make friends, maybe a boyfriend. If some people are mean, dont cut yourself! brush it off and I know that you'll find some good friends to go to whenever your depressed. Do this for yourself, and do this for me! I hate to imagine a girl hurting yourself when your so valuable!

Answer 8

For me, not being a psychologist, I would not dare for one moment answer as a "layman" to a question so direly serious as yours is!'If when depressed or at any other time, my dear, you are cutting yourself deliberately or in any other way, are harming yourself . . talk to someone responsible, responsive whom you can trust - who can convince you and IMMEDIATELY to care for yourself sufficiently to seek the help of a trained psychologist.
What you are doing, may be perhaps something surfacing from some seriously profound desperation . . and if you continue to seek answers through these extremely dangerous means, it may worsen than improve all by Itself . . by that, I mean your situation.
Take good care of yourself.
Do not make of yourself a sacrifice, no one deserves that of you!
Have, Find the initiative, even if it means through the help of a good, trusted, reliable person in your life, who'd not hurt or abandon you in your present distress - to HELP YOU SEEK THE HELP YOU NEED . . and possibly THE REASONS why you've chosen your own self to punish!

I mean this as sincerely as if you were, not a virtual, but an actual family member.
Please, be of better care to your self. In the universe, no matter what you may believe you are, you are Precious . . do not take that away from yourself! PLEASE???

An concerned stranger.
Grace.

Answer 9

i've got been a cutter for 4 years now. i do no longer decrease very frequently anymore. yet I relatively have common the undeniable fact that it will continually be a ingredient of me. i've got been there the place you do no longer choose to tell everyone, frightened of what might take place. in case you particularly need to provide up on your person, you should locate the inducement. locate some thing to do relatively of decrease. I extensively utilized writing, i might write all night long purely to maintain my suggestions off of it. additionally doing some thing actual shall we out particular chemical compounds that help you take care of the discomfort. So like working or a sport. something to maintain you removed from a razor. I additionally discovered that looking one sturdy buddy that particularly cares facilitates while it includes speaking approximately it. One sturdy buddy who won't tell yet additionally can provide the muse to no longer decrease. you do no longer decrease for them. Have them verify your wrist or despite the fact that each and every as quickly as and awhile so then you definately've motivation to no longer decrease. the toughest section is telling somebody...yet each and every so often it particularly is for the suitable. After approximately 3 and a nil.5 years of reducing, i ultimately instructed my mom. I cried and cired, yet while she instructed me that she'd been there too, it grow to be the main comforting piece of information, and as I say I barley touch my epidermis with a razor anymore. it particularly is problematic, yet each and every so often the outstanding ingredient and the problematic ingredient are a similar.

Answer 10

See a psychologist right away. This behavior is very dangerous. You need to find ways to feel better about yourself. This self destructiveness doesn't stop with cutting.

Answer 11

You don't want to stop. If you did, you would. If you really can't control yourself, then you must have problems much bigger than cutting. If you do have some self-control, then you don't have to touch sharp objects to your skin. It's as simple as that. Just stop doing it. Throw away all of your paraphernalia.