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"Self Harm!"

I don't want to read posts saying how wrong, because i think that is so obvious.

Many years ago i use to harm myself, i was hurting and i was always feeling down. I had cuts all over myself mainly over my arms. It got to the point where i have cut to deeply and too much. Problems i couldnt solve my problems and happiness was hard to find, deaths, illnesses, accidents everyhting i see and heard i was scared of. I just sat in my room and destroyed myself because it was something to do, and it stop me from thinking about all the things i was worried about/ scared of.

Mum and stepdad eventually found out what i was doing and tried to talk to me about it. It made me do it even more because i didnt have to hide it. Then they took me to my doctor because she was the only person i ever use to talk to. I spoke about all my problems what was troubleing me and slowly stopped doing it. I think back and realise now how pointless it was but at the time it felt right. I wasnt satisfied till i saw seeping of my blood.

sometimes when i am really depressed i want to do it again but i have so much more in my life now.

Has anyone been through the same situation!

I might have stopped years ago, but im still scarred* for life!

@ng3l wrote:
> Flockhart wrote:
> Do you feel sometimes that they are there to remind you, whether to
> stop or just as something that means it's always on your mind, are
> the scars a good thing ?
>
> Well i havent got many scars, the scars that are there however remind
> me just how far in life i have come and how i have got over most
> things that have stood in my way. They show me just how unhappy i was
> and that ive got control over it now. There is a few more things that
> are getting me down but i get by and they will get resolved with
> time.

I'm glad youve got such a possitive outlook, i think i would look at them and they would be a constant reminder of what i could do if i gave in, but i'm glad you can look at them as a sign of progression.

I used to cut my arms but I don't anymore. Very little point I realised. Ok it did put everything into perspective whenever I did it but now I'm trying to surround myself with good people and just have fun in life instead of getting down about it and wasting it cutting myself and stuff.

Jesus Christ - you totally misunderstood what I wrote.
Didn't even see it that way myself.
I apologise very muchly so, that's not what I meant - never would say such a thing. Sorry.

I meant that self-harm is usually a way of taking control when your life seems totally out of control, and were you scared of loosing the control it gave you.

But you didn't even mean scared.
Sorry again, no offence meant.

Message to self: write what you mean

Woah, I wonder what the collective of "self harmers" is... seems like we've got one here.

"A slitting of macochists"

i was sitting in my gcse history class and i was down realy down lower then i have ever been befor, everything was annoying me and getting me down. so i took the sissors and slid them over my wrists thinking aobut really doing it but then i thought we all have downers so i stoped.

2 days later i was sent out of my P.E lesson for coffing as i was stud in cut grass knee high and have hay fever and i did not want to suffer later so i choffed and sneezed so my teacher told me to go away for coffing to loud. i thogut so bad about topping myself. really badly as some people it stops the stress and its bliss but i pulled through my feelings.

"choffed" :-D

I work with people aged 16 - 25 years and self harm is actually a form of release, when they see the blood pouring out of their arm, they feel that all the hurt is flowing out of their body, it isn't easy to understand but these people need a lot of help and support.

I thought it was to do with the physical pain overwhealming the mental pain for a short period thereby making them feel better. Shows what I know.

English_Bloke wrote:
> I thought it was to do with the physical pain overwhealming the mental
> pain for a short period thereby making them feel better. Shows what I
> know.

Yep that's my understanding as well, and that's what i've been told by the people who have done it.

English_Bloke wrote:
> I thought it was to do with the physical pain overwhealming the mental
> pain for a short period thereby making them feel better. Shows what I
> know.

That is right