What does cutting accomplish?

I was a cutter.

I really liked the feeling of the stinging. I loved crying at myself for being so stupid to inflict pain apon myself.

I always put witch hazel on it when I was done to remind me that I had done something wrong, (Witch hazel made it sting) which was usually asscociated around my ED period. Which seems to be ongoing but I’ve partially recovered, and for the moment, I like my body.

yes…this is a great question. This is why I love this site. We people can casualy discuss situations and experiances without being judged. we can hear the truth without breaking close relationships. Thanks for all those people for answering this question. I still don’t understand why and agree with stephanie987 but too all those people out there still cutting. Face your fears and pains. We all have them but its up to us to decide how to cope and deal. Treat your body right. get something to feel happy about, search for it, create it, seek it, do it, live the passion. make it positive. make a real change otherwise you will always bask in your own pitty and heartache. no offense to anyone. I challenge you to find your passions and create your happiness. I dare you. I double dare you…

There are probably a hundred different reasons why people cut or self harm. I have always seen it as a personal release valve as when all of the inner turmoil becomes to much the self harm process lets it out. Some people grab a beer, others grab a needle but I use to grab a razor as it accomplished the same thing for me. For the majority of people who cut and who have self harmed for a long time they do not have an outlet where they can release their inner emotions so they end up storing them inside and when it gets to be too much then the self harm comes into play. A big problem with self harm is at the beginning it is just for major things but it very quickly becomes the solution to everything

I was a cutter

I was so deppressed that the world itself was so dark I didn’t want to go on, but when I cut the pain sharply brought me back to my senses and It was a sort of rush sadly once I started I had to do it more and more in order to function evenetually I started recieving help from a doctor once my parents caught on. I hope this helps answer your question…stupid yes but as a 14 year old I didn’t understand what I was going through…more ignorant then stupid I suppose

I really don’t know, I guess thats something us non-cutters will never understand. I unfortunately dated a cutter a long time ago and he said he loved the pain, I don’t see how anyone in their right mind could enjoy pain. I remember he wrote my name in blood and I almost threw up, and broke up with him, how disgusting… he thought it was romantic. I guess we will never understand what goes through some peoples minds. When I’m mad I usually take a nice relaxing bath or go for a little walk, and that makes my anger and inside pain go away. I don’t see why people cut instead of doing other things. It may sound stupid to some people, but things like yoga even do release a lot of stress. People just don’t try, they would rather just punish themselves which just isn’t right. They are all “nothing else will make it better” yet they don’t even TRY. So, how would they know? They want you to feel sorry for them, yet they don’t even try to help themselves. It frustrates me, it really does.

Honestly, it’s different for everyone. When I used to cut(don’t anymore by the way) it was to escape from feelings that I didn’t want to feel. A lot of people don’t understand cutting, so I get that you don’t, but there is a purpose for it. Um okay, how does it help? Okay so when I would be really sad, I have have all these thoughts going through my head and I just wanted them all to stop. So I’d take the razor and make the cuts and then instead of concentrating on what was going on in my head, I was concentrating on the pain and bllod that was escaping out of my body. Okay well I don’t know if you can uncerstand that but I hope I was of help to you.

it helps get your mind off the other pains your going though and ull just think about the pain were your injured for a while at least I know I used to cut all the time, im still depressed but I just got too many scars adn my parents found out and threatened to put me in a mental hospital so I stopped.

your right it is stupid all it does is turn emothional pain into physical pain or cover up the emothions and that is worse than dealing with the emotional pain. honestly it hurts and I guess after a while it doesnt hurt as bad but for me it didnt do anything but make me feel worse because on top of being depressed my wrist hurt too. the short answer is it dont accomplish nothing

so its sort of like drugs. you do it to get away from your issues and then you start to rely on it. and you cant stop.