Feel Pain?

[Anonymous]

Do you religous cutters feel pain like you used to? Or have you built up an "immunity" to typical pain? I'm interested...

-Ekia

[dying lullaby]

well i have always had a high tolerence to pain but after i had been cutting for about 2 years i tore a ligament in my thumb and my doc said i should be in horrible pain but i could barely feel it at all...so maybe its just me or maybe my cutting has given me a slight 'immunity' to it
which ever you will... :?

[Chrono]

Yeah, i still feel pain when I do it, but its not as painful as it was when I started. I don't know why, I supposed its an immunity or I just got used to the feeling

[Whisper]

I dunno cutting my arm dosn't hurt at all but I've had sum nasty stuff happen like breaking my arm, my leg, crushing my hand, being stabed in the eye with a pencile etc.. So it just plain ole dosn't hurt. The first time I was taken to the hospital for suicide watch the nurse wanted to see my arm to find out how many cuts I had made, my arm was completly covered and it had dried blood everywhere, so she took me to a sink and started to wash my arm up, she's like "does this hurt?", I take my other hand and slam down on my left one as hard as I can causeing the cuts to reopen and bleed and a lil bit of a bruise, I look at her, her jaws like droped to the floor and I'm like no dosn't hurt. I have to do sumthin really really nasty inorder to feel it....Or when I'm sick like I've got strept throat right now and it hurts a lil. But every situations diffrent, everybody percieves reality in a diffrent way, so.........Ya.

[-Silence]

It's odd for me, when I cut, I only feel it when I look at it. I know it sounds like bullshit, But I was cutting once and I wasnt looking, I refused to watch me do it. It was deeper than I though and I didnt feel a thing until I looked at it. I should have gotten stitches for that one. Now I always watch, it's not really pain though, I feel it, but it doesn't hurt enough for me to stop. Thats a bit confusing, I'm sorry.

[bandaid2008]

hmm. I only "feel" hurt when it's unintentional. But when it's self-harm, I don't feel anything until after I've done it..

[Malcolm Tucker]

Wow. Please don't bump old threads, thank you.

:locked:

[thesphinx]

Thread has been opened because it is still a valid question for people to discuss.

[ShatteredWings]

hm.. that is a good question

my hands have become over sensitive (i rarely cut, but i have done other things... rather not talk), i think its my own damn fault there.


but everything else i've dulled to pain.. walk in a doorframe, whatever. slam into something, and it rarely hurts.

its kinda creepy

[Mr. Smithers]

When I used to do it, I was distracted by the pain that I just forgot about it. I was more afraid of the scars and holes more than the pain.

The pain that it causes goes away in minutes, but the scar and the memory doesn't.

[Xistrance]

Do you religous cutters feel pain like you used to? Or have you built up an "immunity" to typical pain? I'm interested...

-Ekia

i have built up an immunit to pain, pain to me now, although i get he same feeling, its like a guilty pleasure wen i cut, when u attach ur slf to it i think u see it as release rather than pain. it hurts all the same but cutting gets u numb to it. its not cool to cut to cancel pain but its psychological, like torture training with military, u must be trained to withstand the pain, treat it as not as something that can hurt u, after all when u hurt urself, it really doesnt hurt does it? i mean, what is pain....a sensation of injury, u decide wether its good or bad.

[Sapphire]

It didn't have any affect on my ability to feel pain whatsoever. When I fall over or bang myself I do still feel it and no less than anyone else.

[Callwaiting]

Yup, whacking your shin against a coffee table in the dark still hurts like hell.
It hurts less when it's intentional, maybe because you're expecting and welcoming it? Not sure but that's how it is for me anyway.