cutting... Options

[Mynzeyes]

just wondering..probably, if someone does, they'll be too embarrassed or scared to admit it...

i've been known to...not excessively, but some. very rarely...and not much at all when i have done it...

don't tell me i need help, don't tell me i'm crazy, don't tell my you're worried about me. i don't need to hear those things. i know everything about this situation. i just wonder if there's anyone on here that's willing to admit to it...

i guess this is kninda a step out, but i really don't care?

again. don't tell me all the things i don't want, and don't NEED to hear. .

if you lose respect for me, that's fine, i understand. but i'm not a loose cannon, nor am i suicidal. and i'm not crazy...or maybe i am? . some people just have different releases for different situations.

so anyway. i know of at least one other person on here, but i won't mention their name..i just wonder if there's more..because it's somewhat common...

-John-

[carb0n_f1b3r]

First of all i'd like to say to you that your behavior is not a healthy one, but that also i do not judge you because of it... i am a psych major and i always used to say that psychology is my passion. I now recognize that people not psychology is my passion and to help them through the valleys of life whether spiritual or emotional is my purpose... all that i can do for you is offer my help and what information that i have .. it is not an offer that you have to take nor is it an ultamatim of being wrong should you choose to disregard, but it is a truth that i know given by the people who also had this passion.

there are many reasons why a person physically harms themselves.. most are written off as acts motivated by attention but this is only a slighted observation. a sample of the motives for those who choose to self-mutilate

Escape from emptiness, depression, and feelings of unreality.
* Easing tension.
* Providing relief: when intense feelings build, self-injurers are overwhelmed and unable to cope. By causing pain, they reduce the level of emotional and physiological arousal to a bearable one.
* Relieving anger: many self-injurers have enormous amounts of rage within. Afraid to express it outwardly, they injure themselves as a way of venting these feelings.
* Escaping numbness: many of those who self-injure say they do it in order to feel something, to know that they're still alive.
* Grounding in reality, as a way of dealing with feelings of depersonalization and dissociation
* Maintaining a sense of security or feeling of uniqueness
* Obtaining a feeling of euphoria
* Preventing suicide
* Expressing emotional pain they feel they cannot bear
* Obtaining or maintaining influence over the behavior of others
* Communicating to others the extent of their inner turmoil
* Communicating a need for support
* Expressing or repressing sexuality
* Expressing or coping with feelings of alienation
* Validating their emotional pain -- the wounds can serve as evidence that those feelings are real
* Continuing abusive patterns: self-injurers tend to have been abused as children.
* Punishing oneself for being "bad"
* Obtaining biochemical relief: there is some thought that adults who were repeatedly traumatized as children have a hard time returning to a "normal" baseline level of arousal and are, in some sense, addicted to crisis behavior. Self-harm can perpetuate this kind of crisis state
* Diverting attention (inner or outer) from issues that are too painful to examine
* Exerting a sense of control over one's body
* Preventing something worse from happening