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You could probably miss the feelng of release it offers you.
The way to combat that would be to find other activities that offer a similar feeling. Exercise is a good way of working out negative feelings.
Yeah, I’ve had it happen before.
Mostly agitation.
Solution was to squeeze ice until it hurt as bad.
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Why are you harming yourself?
I mean sure life isn’t always a breeze but you gotta suck it up because your life is worth living even if it doesn’t seem like it.
The people who love you will help you thru it. EVen if they arn'’t right now, just stop. Okay? Because I have a friend who cuts herself and everyone is trying to help her. People will come to your rescue. Just wait.
ive been clean for two months. i started because my mom abuses me and i was sorta young like 12ish so i didnt know how to handle all the emotions i was going through and before i knew it i became addicted but i have been clean its just i was wondering if what im feeling now could be like withdrawal or something because i feel worst now then when i did cut and i will have bad mental breakdowns when i want to really bad.
Mikki wrote:
just stop.
I’m afraid just stopping isn’t that easy. It’s like telling a manic depressant to just cheer up.
A lot of the time when you cut - at least for me - it dampens your emotions. The problem is that the less you feel, the farther you get from getting better. It’s possible that you’re going through withdrawl, or it may be finally facing the things you pushed away.
One thing I’ve found that helps is trying to replace it with a good hurt like running.By the end you’re in a lot more pain than you would have been from cutting, and it also does help you feel better after enough times.
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Yes, your cutting is a form of self medicating. the cuts signal a release of chemicals that make you feel whatever it is you feel. Without cutting you will be void of these chemicals much like a drug addict who stops taking crack or whatever. Same concept. Heres the deal, a psychologist can give you medications that can release those chemicals in a much more controlled way and you will feel a whole lot better.
Cutting is EXTREMELY distractive and will lead to your death without treatment. Seek professional help.
i cant get professional help im still a minor and both of my parents are ignoring it. my mom knows and ive asked for help but she said she would send me away to some mental hosptial which i think is a little extreme, she said i either figure out or i would be sent away (a little hypocritical since she in highschool had an eating disorder). i have friends and do decent in school so being sent away would ruin anything that still matters to me. trust me i have wanted professional help for a long long time. thank you though =).
First I would say that I’m really sorry you are in this situation. Your parents should be far more supportive. With that said a hospital is not so extreme for cutting. It really might not be the worst thing for you, it might be a more stable environment then home.
But…I think the best bet would be to find a more neutral adult that has some persuasion ability over your parents…As in an uncle/aunt/grandma/ect. Another route is to talk to your family doctor and the doctor can explain the severity of the situation.
Needless to say this is NOT something you can handle on your own. This is equivalent to having a broken leg and trying to set it yourself…A doctor wouldn’t set there own broken leg. You need to see someone with a doctorate.
thank you i just need to find the strengh and the right person to ask for help. i never actually told my mom i cut it was too hard to admit but what made her find out was that i drank half a bottle of cold medicine and then by mistake told my friend and her mom called my mom and thats where it all unraveled. i have been trying to find a way to ask for help because i have realized recently since things at home are getting worst and so have i that i cant handle this on my own and even my friends support isnt enough because we are all minors there isnt much that can be done. my mom would be furious if she heard i talked to someone about this so im a little timid and not sure how to go about asking for help without her flipping out on me. i told the guidence at my school once and that week was awful so im just a little anxious. but thanks so much!!
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thank you i just need to find the strengh and the right person to ask for help. i never actually told my mom i cut it was too hard to admit but what made her find out was that i drank half a bottle of cold medicine and then by mistake told my friend and her mom called my mom and thats where it all unraveled. i have been trying to find a way to ask for help because i have realized recently since things at home are getting worst and so have i that i cant handle this on my own and even my friends support isnt enough because we are all minors there isnt much that can be done. my mom would be furious if she heard i talked to someone about this so im a little timid and not sure how to go about asking for help without her flipping out on me. i told the guidence at my school once and that week was awful so im just a little anxious. but thanks so much!!
Talk to the family doctor with your mother. The doctor can explain the best course of action and if you include your mother then she won’t feel so alienated. She might be feeling angry or whatever but I can assure you its better then how she would feel at your funeral.
sorry i don’t have time to read the other replies, but I have experienced that. It is an addiction and with any addiction you have withdrawal symptoms when you stop. they will go away slowly but eventually.
yes…i cut and have withdrawls if i dont
i’ve been dealing with cutting myself for three years now and … everytime i’ve stopped i’ve started again ….i just can’t seem to stop , when i do i go thru major withdrawal symptoms,i can’t sit still, i feel like **** all the time , i just think of cutting all the time .. i obbsses about it..
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I just started to quit… I’ve been cutting on and off now for a year and it’s really hard to quit for good… i have a friend helping me but i keep shaking and crying and i feel bad and helpless… idk if those r symptoms or not and i feel like when there done i’m just gonna be back where i started… trying to find a way to deal with this clinical depression i’ve had for over a year now…
I am starting a course of stopping cutting. Yesterday, was the last day I hope to ever cut again, my sister, brother, and boyfriend are my support system. and it’s hard. I’m already having withdrawal symptoms.
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i have withdrawl symptoms too.
My best friend cut too and her boyfriend made her stop. Everytime before she stopped we would tell each other to stop but since we both did it it really didn’t work. When she stopped and then i did it like a month later and she made a deal saying that everytime i did she would as much as i did and as deep. so i stopped and i was irritable,fragile and had headaches. someone would say something and i would just burst out crying because i wasn’t letting out my emotions by cutting. and now after a year and a half of cutting i haven’t in almost two months and i don’t really have physical withdrawl symptoms anymore just that constant nagging in your brain that you need to cut.
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Rico wrote:
alliebearde wrote:
thank you i just need to find the strengh and the right person to ask for help. i never actually told my mom i cut it was too hard to admit but what made her find out was that i drank half a bottle of cold medicine and then by mistake told my friend and her mom called my mom and thats where it all unraveled. i have been trying to find a way to ask for help because i have realized recently since things at home are getting worst and so have i that i cant handle this on my own and even my friends support isnt enough because we are all minors there isnt much that can be done. my mom would be furious if she heard i talked to someone about this so im a little timid and not sure how to go about asking for help without her flipping out on me. i told the guidence at my school once and that week was awful so im just a little anxious. but thanks so much!!
Talk to the family doctor with your mother. The doctor can explain the best course of action and if you include your mother then she won’t feel so alienated. She might be feeling angry or whatever but I can assure you its better then how she would feel at your funeral.
Rico wrote:
First I would say that I’m really sorry you are in this situation. Your parents should be far more supportive. With that said a hospital is not so extreme for cutting. It really might not be the worst thing for you, it might be a more stable environment then home.
But…I think the best bet would be to find a more neutral adult that has some persuasion ability over your parents…As in an uncle/aunt/grandma/ect. Another route is to talk to your family doctor and the doctor can explain the severity of the situation.
Needless to say this is NOT something you can handle on your own. This is equivalent to having a broken leg and trying to set it yourself…A doctor wouldn’t set there own broken leg. You need to see someone with a doctorate.
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i understand. i cut. My boyfreind threatens to tell my parents if i dont stop. I love him and i want to stop and i cant lie to him. I randomly cry at everything and get so angry at little things. SOmetimes i feel numb and cutting brings feelings, sometimes i feel too much and cutting brings the pain out of me. i’m so proud of everyone that manages to stop. I wish i could, i keep telling myself i will do it on my own. But, somtimes the urges are so strong ill hurt my self in other ways like banging my head on a wall. but yes, there are withdrawal symptoms, making it nearly impossible to stop.
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You could find a youth services place that offers confidential help. Maybe a school counselor can help you find one. I’m going to do that too. And to answer the original question, I get cutting withdrawal symptoms too. But the fight’s worth it.
Yes, you sure can. When you bleed, you release chemicals (emphidores, or at least that’s how you spell it =}) and it gives you the same ‘high’ as heroin. So yes, it is very possible. I’m going through withdrawal right now, but I wish you luck and know what it’s like to be an adolescent cutter. Heck, I’m still 14. =P
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i just realized tonite that i’m addicted to cutting when i wasn’t able to cut after having extreame urges. when i realized i couldn’t cut tonite(threw away all my razors in an effort to quit) i felt even worse i was crying and yelling and writhing on my bed in desperation of needing to cut.
then i ran outside to get some fresh air cause i felt really sick like i was going to puke right there and i almost just ran all the way to the hardware store to buy a bunch of new razors but i went back inside and just tried to stop thinking about it. its not working very well, lets just say if i hadn’t thrown away my razors earlier i know what i’d be doing right now!
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For me, I stopped cutting a few months ago and i felt really anxious and distracted. I got headaches and my hands were shaking.
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Hello all, just wanted to tell you all just to hang in there. It will get better, just give it time. I was just lookin’ at a couple web sites about depression and stuff and found myself here. I’ve been cutting for about 5 years now and I did manage to stop for weeks at a time but then I’d end up starting all over again, yes I know it sucks but at least in still alive! Sometimes when I feel like cutting I’ll just look at some of my MANY scars and that tells me it’s not worth making more. I can say that I haven’t cut for almost 2 full months but I can’t say I’ll never do it again ‘cuz it is VERY hard to just stop forever. I’m just trying to take one day at a time and I hope you can too!
I was wondering the exact same thing. Are there symptoms from trying to stop the habit we’ve all grown so used to? When I first tried to stop (and I don’t know if this normal) I started imagining things. I would hear voices, and see things that weren’t there. Then I got super paranoid and I started fearing everything and everyone. I didn’t even trust my own family members, and I would ask them what they put in my food and other crazy things like that. I also didn’t believe a word they said about anything, and I always assumed they wanted to hurt me. Needless to say, I was not easy to live with! I know this sounds corny, but it does get easier, although there are times when it feels almost impossible to quit. I also know that the first time I started, I thought I was too smart to fall into the “hole” of self-harm, but I did, and it’s not easy to climb out of. One time leads to two, and eventually you don’t want to stop.
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Well I now know that I’m not alone. I’m 32 yo male, started cutting about 2 months ago as a ‘cure’ to 11 years of obsession with suicide. When I started cutting (was meant to only experience the initial feeling of cutting my wrists as a suicide attempt) I realized I didnt think about suicide. I was at peace. Now I have to cut, or I shake or have to start obsessing about suicide. Hope blogging helps :/
In the past, I was cutting for about 2 and a half years. I promise you, it will get easier, yeah I still think about it sometimes in my head but physically I am not able to do it anymore. I will pray for all of you. y’all will get through it. talking to someone really does help. I was stubborn at first cause i do not like talking about issues I had,but it only would make things worse if I was not willing to speak.
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