kudos to you guys for trying but nothing works if the hole world would explode if i cut one more time i would still have to cut

thanks this relle helps!i havent cut in a while (22 days wooh!) and its been hard but this totally helps me see why its ggod to stop

Thank you =)

i still want too.

even if i live with an abusive dad,i never have plans to cut myself...some of my friends jokes that my father is doing that for me...
when i was young i was bruised and wounded all day..i even experienced put inside a cage and not fed for two days,my dad is in the army and children right wasnt rampant at that time..yes i cried and i even prayed for death but i realize that the opposite is true,i realized that it takes real courage to live,cutting and being suicidal wont help beacuse you are just inflicting yourself more misery....try to understand what is the root of your pain and try to solveit out,i did my part i have done the most painful action an abused boy could do,i forgive my father everytime he beats me...

UnattachedIV wrote:

TessTragedy wrote: cutting is self abuse, self destruction to your body.
that is not and never will be a good thing.
yeah it may help u 'get through your problems'
but not the right way.
its emotionally and psychologically fucked up.

its not healthy.

and scars are not pretty.
this thread is for people who want to quit.
don't promote cutting -.-

I have a question then. Am I allowed to make a thread that keeps people who cut from going under because everyone wants them to stop?
I mean sometimes everyone putting pressure on you to stop is a lot worse.
And you don't feel like yourself when you stop cutting.
I don't mean to promote starting, but just continuing for "floating boats" out there.
Or would that thread get shot down and deleted??

to be honest i used to cut and i recently stopped,but my friends started on about stop this and all that stuff. which kinda was hard for me cos it kept the thought in my head and that was crazy so i took some advice from this forum. put all objects far out of reach. it helped. i yell u its hard

cutting becomes an addiction ones you have practicing it for a lobg time....

indie wrote: cutting becomes an addiction ones you have practicing it for a lobg time....

yes i agree, but please believe me its not fun going to a psychiatric hospital. If you don't learn to stop then your ganna end up there and its not fun at all. someone really loves you and you might not even realize it but they do and if you keep harming yourself your ganna regret ending up in that place and maybe even loosing your life. i had cut for for than a year and a half. i had just stopped cutting now for a solid 2 weeks. and my scars are not fading a bit. i regret doing it. i regretted it as soon as the blood stopped flowing from it. i highly doubt that they will ever heal. i literately broke down crying when my 6 year old brother looked at me arm and said,"sissy, what happened to your arm? what did you do?" you dont want to have your kid look at your arms one day and see the scars that haven't faded and ask what happen. so please stop.

yes,i agree completely with that.i becomes uncontrollable and you can't stop,a complete addiction.it's something you relle want to give up to be able to.

Hey i've been trying to quit cutting cause my mom and dad found out its really hard what are somethings that i can use to quit cutting post a comment on my profile cause i will 4 get im really serious about cutting Thanks!

Um, a mod closed a thread asking whether to tell my friends and family that I cut and told me to come here, so....

I was sexually abused by my grandfather, and even though I never recognized it as abuse, it ruled my life. I never showed any emotion, I had (and have) a really hard time feeling pain (Really. It's a symptom called "dissociation." Kind of fucking ninja when I break a wrist and don't cry.), and I never had the trust to speak to people outside my family, and thus have friends.

Now I have friends and a therapist, and friends in an Abuse group.

But the principal of my school was an asshole to me one day, and betrayed my trust in him to support me by not knowing my name and telling me that he didn't want to know me because I was a good kid, not one that gets sent to his office.

So I cut "4 U" into my ankle with a needle, scratching for hours. I finished the "U" with a razor that I finally found.

I realized that it really didn't do that famed rush for me, so I told a friend I'd quit. (A friend who I blackmailed into eating for the first time in about a month, since she used to cut and didn't want me to.)

So I wanna know if I should tell my therapist, Abuse group, and family that I was cutting. My little sister was abused too and she had been scratching cuts into her legs with an earring before all this crap happened. My parents are curious as to why I'm wearing socks all the time and why I don't want to go swimming. My dad found the razor when I tossed it into a fire that I made when they were gone, and he thinks I'm doing drugs like he did.

I mean, I'd be fine going out in public with the scars. I think mine is fucking beautiful, not that I'm saying anyone else should do it for the scars. After I did cut (which I've wanted to do since I was 8 or so) I had a dream that I flew and didn't die, for the first time in my life. But if you people think I'm sick to love my self-harm, just pay some heed to my name. Bedlam is the mental hospital, and I actually /want/ to be in a mental hospital.

If you're going to yell and bitch at me for saying what I feel, I'll just laugh and scratch up the scabs.

But if I'm sounding like a total bitch, I apologize because I'm slightly pissed off at the situation in which I will be judged for what I do not feel is wrong for me.

ok,so i read your other post and was like "damn,they closed this"but then i found this so here it goes.

definately tell your therapist and support group,if you aren't honest with them,you will never be able to recover.the whole point of doing those things is to be able to get better and sort through all that kinda shit.

something sortaish similar happened to me,cept i carved "HELP" into my ankle.about two days later,i was sitting on the ground at school with my frend and she kinda saw a glimpse of it,and i had to make up this whole bs story about it.it felt bad since she's my frend and she just relle wants to help me and cared.

with your therapist and abuse group,you can talk about how and when to tell your parents.your therapist might have to,something legal i cant remeber,but obviously if you have to question wether or not to speak,you need to.

cutting is bad,and it doesn't change anything.

untilthestormpasses wrote: ok,so i read your other post and was like "damn,they closed this"but then i found this so here it goes.

definately tell your therapist and support group,if you aren't honest with them,you will never be able to recover.the whole point of doing those things is to be able to get better and sort through all that kinda shit.

something sortaish similar happened to me,cept i carved "HELP" into my ankle.about two days later,i was sitting on the ground at school with my frend and she kinda saw a glimpse of it,and i had to make up this whole bs story about it.it felt bad since she's my frend and she just relle wants to help me and cared.

with your therapist and abuse group,you can talk about how and when to tell your parents.your therapist might have to,something legal i cant remeber,but obviously if you have to question wether or not to speak,you need to.

cutting is bad,and it doesn't change anything.

Yeah, I was pretty sure that I needed to tell the group. But it's kind of scary because most of them are those perfect little angels that knit bibles for kids in Africa and that kind of thing. And my therapist is THE "Jesus Counselor", which is the title other therapists in town have given her. The session right after I decided to stop cutting was the worst session so far, because I was so afraid that I'd tell her and she'd blow up.

I've been so paranoid about someone seeing it. I've been wearing socks, but I also refuse to wear shorts and I usually have a blanket over my legs when I watch TV with my parents. I even sit on that ankle.

Yeah, the Therapist Code or whatever says that if the patient is causing harm or under duress from a private detail, the therapist must contact the appropriate authorities. Like admitting you were sexually abused, the therapist calls your family and police. But mine was cool enough to wait a month when my friend told her she was abused, since the friend had never told her parents and the parents were trying to re-establish contact with the molestors.

"If you have to question whether or not to speak, you need to." That's deep. I'll remember that.

Yeah, I was pretty sure that I needed to tell the group. But it's kind of scary because most of them are those perfect little angels that knit bibles for kids in Africa and that kind of thing. And my therapist is THE "Jesus Counselor", which is the title other therapists in town have given her. The session right after I decided to stop cutting was the worst session so far, because I was so afraid that I'd tell her and she'd blow up.

I've been so paranoid about someone seeing it. I've been wearing socks, but I also refuse to wear shorts and I usually have a blanket over my legs when I watch TV with my parents. I even sit on that ankle.

Yeah, the Therapist Code or whatever says that if the patient is causing harm or under duress from a private detail, the therapist must contact the appropriate authorities. Like admitting you were sexually abused, the therapist calls your family and police. But mine was cool enough to wait a month when my friend told her she was abused, since the friend had never told her parents and the parents were trying to re-establish contact with the molestors.

"If you have to question whether or not to speak, you need to." That's deep. I'll remember that.

"that's deep. I'll remeber that."ok first that just made my day

ok you have to tell your group,even if you think whack bible ladys gonna explode.the whole point of the group is to fix those types of problems.she's a professional,she wants to help.

when i first did it,i was also uber paranoid.i did that too,hiding and everthing.before i came to terms with what i did to myself,i'd put band-aids over it and say i just cut myself shaving.you cood try that if you wanna wear shorts.

oh shit i didnt know the therapists had to tell the police too.....damn that's relle not good for me.

untilthestormpasses wrote:

"If you have to question whether or not to speak, you need to." That's deep. I'll remember that.

"that's deep. I'll remeber that."ok first that just made my day

ok you have to tell your group,even if you think whack bible ladys gonna explode.the whole point of the group is to fix those types of problems.she's a professional,she wants to help.

when i first did it,i was also uber paranoid.i did that too,hiding and everthing.before i came to terms with what i did to myself,i'd put band-aids over it and say i just cut myself shaving.you cood try that if you wanna wear shorts.

oh shit i didnt know the therapists had to tell the police too.....damn that's relle not good for me.

I'm glad I made your day! ^^

I put a bandaid on my last cut. Just because my bandaids are rainbow-psycho-delicious, and I thought it would cheer me up.

And I hate shorts anyway. It's kind of part of the paranoid "Sumun else is gonna rape me" thing. And King Kong has better knees than I do.

I did tell the member of the group who gave me a ride home. She was raped when she was my age, but now she's in colledge and she's the sweetest person I've ever met. (I'm serious, she could kill diabetics in a 20 mile radius.) She had done cutting too, but she got checked into a mental hospital and started tanning instead to release the endorphines. And she said if I didn't call her, she would.

But my reason to cut is to mutilate myself. I just love self-punishment. I mauled my own arm with all the biting I did, since the rubber-band trick is kind of loud, and my parents would hear it. Is there another way to mutilate myself other than cutting? Because I REALLY want to. I haven't cut anywhere on my arms, but I feel like taking a knife and just ripping up every inch of skin on my arms.