Question.

[Tyler Durden]

Soo, i'm not really depressed, but like to cut myself. I dunno why. People are so against is, yet there are so many different forms of self mutilation and some aren't even physical. So my question is, and i'm not trying to be a troll I really want to know, Why should I stop?

[ReginaGeorge]

It's obviously damaging physically, you will scar, you have risk of infection etc. You're inflicting it on yourself can negative mental consequences, big names like addiction, depression, low self-worth, also other things like just teaching yourself it's okay to hurt yourself and sometimes for other to hurt you, and it's not a good lesson to learn. You might think 'well, I know I'm not hurting myself because-", healthy people don't hurt themselves. So, it really is a good idea to stop while you're ahead, for your own long-term safety. There are other ways to cure boredom/get a thrill/why ever you actually do it.

[West Coast Sheriff]

You should stop because it'd not good for you, your body, and your skin. And the reason you do it is you might be a masochist, meaning you like pain. Hope this helped. :D

[Tyler Durden]

Well, naturally the first time I did it it was because of my intense self loathing attitude, but after that I didn't really continue for a while. As for the negative consequences, i completely agree with the addiction, but the depression and low self worth I don't understand... I take anti depressants everyday, so I am not depressed anymore, but how can harming yourself make you depressed? And the low self worth, this is going to sound bad, but this is how i feel... People, for the most part, ARE worthless. There are so so many of us leading lives of no importance while society crumbles around us, and it's just getting worse. The moral standing in this country is absolutely appalling. Being a whore (man or woman), vanity, selfishness, and stupidity are celebrated and idolized. Anyway, back to my original thought, people who were molly-coddled as a child into believing that they are "special" and then find out that they aren't and then are depressed has become the norm. We live in such a PC culture that people develop these delusions that life matters. When in fact, most of the time, the world would not miss them if they weren't here. Those are my thoughts, god it feels so amazing to finally say that. Everyday i hear people bitch and bitch and bitch and i just want to scream at them. Again, i'm not trying to be a troll, these are truly my thoughts expressed through words.

[ReginaGeorge]

Well, naturally the first time I did it it was because of my intense self loathing attitude, but after that I didn't really continue for a while. As for the negative consequences, i completely agree with the addiction, but the depression and low self worth I don't understand... I take anti depressants everyday, so I am not depressed anymore, but how can harming yourself make you depressed?

Seeing as you've already had a record of mental health issues, that seem to be on-going, you really should try to give it up because you could be a higher risk of addiction than others.

As for causing depression, cutting obviously can become addiction, but before addiction, it's habit, and once you get into the habit of cutting yourself just whenever, instead of when you're in a certain head space that keeps you stable, it might pull your mood down. This goes for the low self worth too, you might start feeling you're not going deep enough, or the quantity is too small, and you put more and more pressure and 'goals' onto yourself that you may not reach.

Addiction can make you feel bad in itself, despite what the addiction actually is.

Just note how I say, might and could, instead of will and would. Nothing I'm saying is backed up with scientific evidence, just personal experience and experience of others I've talked to. :rolleyes:

And good! Express your opinions! It's good to be heard.