cutting help: is making little holes in your arms worse than cutting? - Help.com

If you are contemplating suicide, hurting yourself, or you are seriously depressed: please, seek professional help!

Call this hotline (1-800-273-8255) operated by our friends at the
Suicide Prevention Lifeline, anytime, for free, professional, and
confidential assistance. While other Help.com users are likely to reply
to your post, please make sure you understand that your use of Help.com
falls under our TOS.

Note: I’m a robot that the Help.com staff created. If this response is in error, I apologize, please ignore it.

I think any form of self harm is bad, no worse and no better it is still trying to harm yourself.
How do you make the holes and why?

Erm, i’m not sure, cos i don’t really know much about this subject….
Both are as bad as eachother to be frank

Hmm gross…

Why do you like the pain?
Why do it?
There must be a more healthier way to release pent up anger or frustration.

I agree with LazyDaze. Any form of self-harm (or self-mutilation) is bad. I started a post on resources for cutting but there was not a big response but there were a couple of website on cutting there if you want to look at it. Maybe it would help you with understanding cutting to see if that fits with what you are feeling. I think physical pain is easier to deal with for many of us than emotional pain but what we don’t deal with, will never go away unless we work through it.

Maybe it seems like what you are doing isn’t anything severe and won’t have consequences but I think the fact that you are asking the question shows you know better and want someone to convince you to stop. Anytime there is an open wound, you could get an infection. We have to think about the longer term consequences of things we do to ourselves. If you got an infection and didn’t tell someone, you could lose a finger or worse. If infections go septic (through the body), you can even die.

depresse wrote:
lmao.
thanks for trying but, shut up.

You made the post, you told people what you do, people are free tooffer their advice and help on whatever they can to do with this situation, if you don’t like it then either report what you don’t agree with or stay quiet because being rude to people will only get you into trouble…
Another thing is that the more you don’t like what you hear the more true it is and that is why you don’t want to listen to it.
You need help and the help is being offered so take it :)

depresse wrote:
no, i asked people which was worse.
not to get a therapy lesson.

Aww sorry but free therapy lessons are all part of posting here, you post and you get therapy wanted or not, shame but thats a fact of life…
But anyway, I don’t think it is any worse as to be honest harming yourself for locked up emotions and depression is as worse as it can get before being suicidal i think..

snap your wrists with a rubber band instead.

its not any better or worse…
i can quote something i read “those who merely scratch can be as troubled as those who cut deep”
it’s not how you do it, or how severely, it’s how it makes you feel.
if causing mor epain makes you feel better, you are no more troubled than someone who gets the same relief from a smaller sensation of pain.

How young are you? I suspect you are young and just started to deal with something that is hard for you. If not, then maybe you are just bored and looking for something to do because there is no other reason to be rude. I know some of the people who have responded and they are very caring and just trying to be helpful.

Whatever that problem, it’s none of my business but you did reach out here. I think you already knew the answer and subconsciously, your post is looking for some insight perhaps into why you are hurting yourself.

I think several people have answered your question - neither is a good thing. When someone had a need to inflict pain on themselves, they are in trouble and need help. You are the only one who can help yourself in the end. We can offer advice and we can care that something has you troubled so much that you pinch your skin until it bleeds. Just know that it is not normal. I’m not a therapist, so just consider this free advice. Whatever is happening in your life, you don’t deserve to deire wanting to hurt yourself.

Just remember you do have choices. You can start to talk about what your experiencing that is causing you to want physical pain or you can just ignore this discussion and allow whatever it is to continue. With age comes wisdom and trust me - what we don’t deal with, doesn’t go away on its own. It will also affect the big decisions you make in life and your ability to cope. I don’t think anyone is trying to be hurtful sweetie, we just care and we’ve come here for answers and support to. Why not tell us why you want to hurt yourself. It is never just because pain feels good. There was a time in my life when I felt like physical pain was the easiest to handle and I couldn’t allow myself to feel the emotional stuff. I would even ask God to send me physical pain and now I have been through all sorts of physical stuff and I live in chronic pain and it is no fun. I don’t wish that for you. If you are willing to talk, we’re hear to listen and offer suggestions. If not, then I know I will jump to another discussion. The only thing that matters is the choice you decide to make.