Why Do You Cut Yourselves?

[boytoynamedtroy]

Hey, guys and girls! I was just wondering, why do/did you cut yourselves? I'm not judging you, or anything, but I just never understood why you harm yourselves. I'm sure I could never comprehend the pain you felt or you're feeling that led you to do such thing. Please explain it to me. And hey, you're wonderful. ;)

[Luminous]

Explaining why I cut is really difficult because there aren't really any words to describe it. It's a feeling of relief, and numbness, and most importantly, an escape. At first, for a few moments, the pain is strong enough it is the only thing I focus on, and it clears my mind, as I'm then a little bit less focused on whatever was making me feel shitty before. The more I do it, the clearer my mind feels, and the more relaxed I feel. You can't truly understand it until you've done it, but that's the best way I can describe it. It's a dangerous habit, but in the present moment, it is a way for me to cope.

[Hollywood]

I didn't understand it either, until I tried it. And no, I'm not recommending that you try it, because overall it's not a good thing, but it didn't make any sense to me either until I felt it myself.

[Leprous]

Hey, guys and girls! I was just wondering, why do/did you cut yourselves? I'm not judging you, or anything, but I just never understood why you harm yourselves. I'm sure I could never comprehend the pain you felt or you're feeling that led you to do such thing. Please explain it to me. And hey, you're wonderful. ;)

Not sure if I can explain either, is it possible to explain? Probably not. Not for me.

[Uranus]

I don't. But when I lived up in Indiana, I have a friend who does cut. I asked him about it. And he is a very open guy so he explained it to me. He said he(Not everyone) goes through alot of family issues, depression, ECT. And he does it to just..cope. He says he feels a short amount of pain but after he feels relieved and calm. He feels better after that. He's been trying to quit but he's having trouble ending the cutting.

[CosmicNoodle]

Best explanation for it:

When your in so much psychological pain, the easiest way to block it out, is with physical pain.

[Hollywood]

Best explanation for it:

When your in so much psychological pain, the easiest way to block it out, is with physical pain.

I think this sums it up pretty well. It's a way to relieve the pain you feel inside with outside pain instead.

[DamWayne]

just to feel something. feeling someone is touching me, even if its to hurt me, at least someone is touching me. oh, no it's my own hand holding the blade...

[Harley Quinn]

For me, it's always been "hey this is one aspect of my life I can control". There's something about knowing that you can cause a lot of pain to yourself, but yet always knowing how to control that. I can never really control my emotions or whatever, so I found the best way to deal with that was to self harm. When life is spinning out of control, for me knowing that I could gain some sense of control through this, helped in so many ways. Which, I know is ridiculous because self harm is obviously not in any way a good thing. But yeah.

[Esoteric]

Sometimes I feel like I have no emotions, or feelings and cutting makes me feel something again, the pain helps me

[omgwuut]

I used to do it. USED TO but I'm over it now. well I cut myself before because of problems that I think I couldn't handle and I couldn't bare the pain anymore.There are some moments wherein I couldn't take it and because of too much emotional hurt, I felt that my body is already numb and I really want to release the pain so I cut myself. But I wouldn't recommend anyone to do it because once you started it, It's really hard to stop yourself from doing it.

[King_of_Hearts]

At the moment, I am currently trying to quit cutting, as it has become an addiction to me. The reason I did it at first was to feel something. To know I was still here, and still able to feel. I became so numb that I needed to know that I was able to feel still. It was also a release. Not a good way of releasing stress, depression and years of pent up emotion, but it was still how I did it. As I write this, I am wearing elastics to ween my cutting, because like I said, my body became addicted to it.
I'm sorry if this doesn't help explain it, and it won't be the same for everyone, as we are individuals with individual problems and experiences, but this is why I did it.

[gothy]

Because, to be honest. I actually hate everything about my life and myself and i kind of use if as an escape. Some drink, some do drugs, some have meaningless sex and some turn to crime to fill something they feeel is missing. I turn to cutting.

[Grim]

because im torn between two people i love and i feel worthless because of it. id always imagined cutting because of depression and just started recently. it numbs away my emotional pain..

[amgb]

I cut because I deserve the pain and punishment and it also helps me so much..I know it's crazy that it helps me but in my mind it makes me feel calm In a really strange way..and it takes away the emotional pain because physical pain is better to deal with and it takes away the numbness..