Cutting

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I cut, I mean I used to. I was talking to my therapist about it and he said that many times becuase people were hurt or betrayed they get really angry. The anger they feel they can't act out so they act on themselves by cutting. So instead of yelling back at their parents they sort of give up, retreat in themselves and hurt themselves. I hope I'm not repeating what anyone else has said.

Who do you think you are? Do you really think you understand depression more than anyone else? You may be a depressed person, surviving years and years of darkness. You may be a psychotherapist, analysing everyone you come in contact with. But never say you know more about depression than the next person. Your depression is YOUR depression. Being depressed/suicidal or a professor/author on human psyche does not make you an expert. Depression affects different people in different ways. An old friend of mine was depressed for a week (A WEEK!), and she shot herself... I've been depressed for 21 years, in and out of hospitals, institutions, and therapist offices and I will never claim to know more about depression than ANYONE.

Yeah, me... I completely agree... NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT DEPRESSION THAN ANYONE ELSE... yeah, it may be a physical thing... it may be a bi-polar thing... it may be that you feel like you've been handed a pile of shit and told to eat it for the rest of your worthless life... But, if anyone (ANYONE) can tell me why I've been so depressed... why I've been cutting myself, swallowing downers by the dozens, drinking and swimming with a friggan purpose, using my own friggan apnea machine to try suffocating myself in my sleep, eating a little pressure-treated wood everyday, breaking off lead under my skin, looking for a way out every day, every night... If any of you so-called 'experts' can tell me why I feel like this all the time... I'll bow down to your wisdom, Oh Great One.

possum. i think your crazy! you act like you understand everything! were not like that and just because youve had bad experirnces with cutter dont mean were all like that! this is carzy i dont go sob to anyone,or show off my scars,i dont know anyone who does! this is total shit.were depressed and you dont understand it,i dont understand others depression,i may relate,but were all different.its not fair to accuse us like that!cutting is a cure,not some fucked up fashion,i hide my scars not showthem off,and i wish i didnt cut,i fear my parents finding out and going to therapy and crap,i wish i wasnt depressed i wish i was happy,your so messed up man...

In reply to:oh, by the way, i don't hide my scarsAny suggestions on how to be not self-conscious? I hate it when anyone asks about any scar of mine, regardless of weather I did it or not.

hum... i guess i accepted that i am a cutter since the momnt i cuted... it's like something i couldn't hide so i didn't hide... i am not saying i am overly proud that i am a cutter, but it's really something that i couldn't hide... it's like when people look at me they can realize that something is wrong with me...i let pepole know about my scar depends on if i am ready to tell who is asking and how i am feeling at the moment...usually my answers r..."it's something personal, i don't want to talk about it""oh, just a cut i got""i was trying to kill myself, but it never did work"i usually change to other topic or laugh it off after i said those statements... learnt how to laugh sarcastically... ha ha ha~~

I dont act like I understand everyone but hell i dont care. Sometimes I pierce myself with saftey pins in my arms and hands thats 10 times more fun than cutting or puking is a good substitute too. But yeah I'm messed up and i find it funny look at me laugh ha ha ha thats me laughing by the way

I cut my upper arms and somtimes inner thights where no one really will see them, but im not deppressed, im not going to kill myself, i just like the release.

it surprises me how many of us are out there. I don't cut anymore but I still understand the feeling. I've never been able to put it into words effectively though. I guess it's a little too close

through your lack of words i feel like you stated the feeling best

The reason people cut is because it takes the focus away from the mental and emotional pain they're feeling. I cut for quite a while before I realized it wasn't helping than just making me feel really guilty the next day. but I know that when I used to cut, it used to just make me focus on the physical pain I had just given myself. People cut for different reasons, but that was my reason.

Cutting is for people who are running low on attention, and dont understand that there are different ways to get it. It's all in your head, it doesnt make you feel better, you only say it does to get weird looks from people so you can say SEE EVERYONE THINKS IM WEIRD and give people a reason for your depression that way. My advice to those people is, either do it good and commit suicide or stop showing off, because cutting yourself up won't make things any better. Really it won't, It just hurts.

Your such a fuck head i have never wanted attention my whole fucking hense why i do it where no one can see if you judgmental ass hole.

I know how everyone on here feels. Before I started cutting I thought people who did it were crazy or something. But, now it's all I do to cope with stuff. It is addictive. I've tried so many times to quit but I just can't. And, I don't think people should judge or place people who cut into any certain group or anything. I do happen to listen to stuff like The Used, Hawthorne Heights, My Chemical Romace, etc. But, I don't consider myself emo or goth or anything. And, for me, it's not a ritual or whatever, it's just something I do. It's part of my life. And, I don't do it for show. There are only a couple people who know that I self-injure and they only know because of accidents (me not paying attention to where my arm was). I really wish nobody knew, but there's nothing I can do now but try to hide it better. I don't think cutting is that bad of a thing, It makes me feel better when I'm upset..why is that bad?

In reply to:I don't think cutting is that bad of a thing, It makes me feel better when I'm upset..why is that bad?It's not a problem that you will have to worry about hiding your scars for the rest of your life? It's part of the ritual that you deny participating in.It's a problem because it doesn't address the root cause of your depression. It provides short-term releief, like getting drunk. It solves nothing.

In reply to:It makes me feel better when I'm upset..why is that bad? It's not normal, Even though lots of idiots do it. As if theres nothing else in the world that can make you feel better... In reply to:Your such a fuck head i have never wanted attention my whole fucking hense why i do it where no one can see if you judgmental ass hole. If you want noone to see it then why do you do it? Really whats the fucking point of it? Try breaking stuff next time, its about as useless as cutting, but at least it doesn't scar you for life.

My mom once saw a massive scar on my wrist, but somehow convinced herself that some girl did it to me... denial is a powerful, and kinda scary, thing.I still don't know what the hell she thought a girl was doing to me though...

Why did you choose my post to reply to for your deep analysis of cutting?> If you want noone to see it then why do you do it? Really whats the fucking point of it?If you search for cutting on this site, you may have an idea of why people do it, rather than jumping in with your uninformed thoughts. I'm sure there's plenty of information on the subject on the Internet as well.

Because I like the fucking sensation and its something just for me that no one else can control over me, and when are you the judgment polices? YOU ASSHOLE! I cannot believe you think you have the right to tell me that im attention starved when you know NOTHING! You are an ignorant behaimeh.

Java ignore him, we all love ya hear, so cool the jets. You stay your sweet self and let the angry people go after him.