Why?

[Jordee-G]

Why do people self-harm and cut there selfs? what do they get out of it?

[Rutherford The Brave]

Endorphines, and adrenaline make you feel better and both are created when you cut yourself.

[Cloud]

as greg said
the pain releases endorphins which give you a temporary high of calmness and pain relief
its a way of coping with the shittest of the shits that life throws at people

[Jordee-G]

But dosent it hurt alot? lose alot of blood? should i do it if im stressed ? does it work to releif stress?

[Rutherford The Brave]

But dosent it hurt alot? lose alot of blood? should i do it if im stressed ? does it work to releif stress?

Yeah but I mean its not something you should do at all. It becomes addicting and its hard to stop.

[Cloud]

But dosent it hurt alot? lose alot of blood? should i do it if im stressed ? does it work to releif stress?

it depends on the persons pain threshold and how deep they go
and once again the blood depends on how many and how deep
and really thats a stupid question
no you shouldnt self harm for stress relief
slf harm is a stupid coping method and one thats hard to escape so do yourself a favour and dont even contemplate starting

[Jordee-G]

Ok thanks, wont :D

[sarah newman]

It doesnt really hurt because thats all you think about when your all alone and depressed, feeling better, you want to feel something. Its a coping mechanism to us

[Amyxoxo]

Well, people deal with different sittuations in different ways. Many people start to harm thenselves to deal with these. Soon this hurting yourself in a bad sittuation becomes addictive as your body gets addicted to your own drug 'Endorphines'. This drug is like others, it is very hard to stop taking it and in some ways it is harder as you can do it anytime, with anything. It does hurt at first as this is your body realesing the drug, soon peoples threasholds begin to increase so they go deeper and deeper. Soon, people need to see the blood this is why many types of distractions and coping mechanisums dont work.
xxx

[Jordee-G]

Thaks guys :D

[Project Delta]

PRetty much all has been covered. So hope you have found what you wanted. But you could always just search it in google, because that way you would find a few more descriptions as well.

[Atonement]

http://www.virtualteen.org/topics/teens/abuse/self-harm/

Look under the first blue heading.

[Charleigh]

i do it because it relifs me from alot of stress but my homelife and school life isnt brilliant but thats nt an excuse

i self harm but lets just say, im repaying it now because my arms are so scarred, its stupid and thoughtless dont do it, im trying to stop

[kipper]

it makes me feel relaxed as if the world suddenly makes sense ( which is does not)

[Asylum]

its like this... you are emotionally distressed. Maybe you just lost a loved one. All you do is think abou the current problem, thne without thinking you hurt yourself. Perhaps you pul your hair, punch a wall or a pillow, maybe drink, do drugs, maybe pick up a scissor and cut yourself. This will 1 make you forget the problem for a moment and concentrate on something else like the pain, 2 you will like the pain because it feels good 3 it naturally releases stress in yorur body by realeasing endorphines, much lke a drug. . Next problem comes around idk... say parents might divorce, another thing bad happens in your life, you think... hmmm... i felt a little better after i hurt myself you do it again... you keep doing it with your problems, then you start with stupid small problems too, because you are now addicted.

blood ranges on the persons preference to 1 how much blood they want too see and2 how deep they want to cut 3 how much they want to hurt, or feel.
sometimes it hurts sometiems it doesn't... it ranges on people. but its addicting don't do it. :(