Is this normal?

[wowfan]

does anyone else spend hours cutting? i have got in the habit of sitting up in my room at night with a blade, watching dvds and quite calmly cutting myself, do u think this is bad? well obviously its bad but like is it really bad or unusual?

[1_21Guns]

i can sit and calmly cut for around half an hour.. but i can't do it for hours.
i'm not really sure... i guess you shouldnt be calm about cutting yourself.. but yeah.

[NightFighter]

Well, obviously any degree of self harming is bad so how much or little you do is, in some peoples opinions, irrelevant. However, if you are jeopardising your life (mass blood loss) then yes, what you are doing is bad and you need to stop.

You say that you are in the "habit" of doing it. Does that mean you are not addicted? Are you able to not do it and not crave it? And when i say crave i mean feel the unstoppable need and not the feeling like it would be pleasant and so you will just do it.

Im curious to know why you want to know if others are doing the same? Im just asking as i don't want to jump to conclusions.

But to answer you question simply- yes -i myself have done the same and i can imagine that many, many other people have too.

Take care
x

[wowfan]

i wanted to know if others do the same cause i was curious if i was doing something really weird, i dunno if im addicted to it i cant wait till i can be alone to do it , if i think about not being able to do it i feel like a kinda panic,,,, i dunno

[HeroesAndCons]

i can only go 10 minutes

[Fiction]

I know i've done similar, but everytime i cut isn't like that.

[NightFighter]

i wanted to know if others do the same cause i was curious if i was doing something really weird, i dunno if im addicted to it i cant wait till i can be alone to do it , if i think about not being able to do it i feel like a kinda panic,,,, i dunno

I suggest you slowly cut down then. It sounds like self harm is taking over and you need to fight that.
Just stop doing it slowly e.g cut down on the hours you do it, the amount of cuts, the severity of the cuts, the frequency you cut.

If you slowly take control then you'll manage to defeat self injury. Definitely.

I know you didn't ask for that advice therefore i haven't gone into much detail. I just thought it might be helpful and give you ideas. If you do want more help then pm me and i'll go through things more with you.

Take care
x

[Kaius]

When i went through a pretty bad stage a few years ago, and when i started again last October i could sit there for about an hour and a half straight and do so, but i have a little more control than i did at that point now, i can do maybe 2-8 little ones and start to realise what im doing is wrong. To be honest it depends on the limit of the person and what kind of mood/situation they're in.