If you have a self-mutilation habit, do you feel that it helps you cope with everday situations or stress? if so why?
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Yes i do self injure but i don't think of it as a habit i think of it as an addiction now, it helps because when you cut your body releases some chemicals into the brain and that makes you feel relieved, but afterwards you feel kinda guilty, at least thats with me i cant generalize, i talk from my experience and nothing more.
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Oh dear... here's a road I've been down. Once even had to be hospitalized for the damage I did... that was an embarrassing injury to have to explain, I tell ya. I think with me, it's because first of all I don't like to burden other people with my problems and secondly I know all my friends see me as this solid... wall... they can lean on, so I feel somehow my showing that I get stressed too would make them feel less secure. I don't know. Anyway, everything gets internalized until I just have to do SOMETHING, and there's no other outlet. It's really like a terrible addiction though. If you're headed down that path... oh GOD, I'm such a hypocrite for saying this... but get the help you need. Please.
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I'm not sure why. It just seems that when i'm so depressed that I can't think straight, that cutting calms me.
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Yes it helps me cope, but it also gives me a high. I also have religious reasons for doing it.
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Yes. Cutting helps for awhile for sure. When your mind is racing with negative thoughts, cutting seems like the only option. The pain calms me down and lets me relax. Even if I feel a little guilty later at least it calms my brain down for awhile.
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i used to. emotional pain takes a loooooong time to heal. sometimes the act of self harm is like turning an emotional wound into a physical wound which heals a quicker. does that make sense?? lol. i used to cut, seein the blood flow out was like seeing the stress and hate flow out.
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I'll tell you honestly that it felt like relief, it was such a rush. The first few times, I had a reason and I'd relax into the cut. But eventually, I just got addicted. It took me over and I would have no reason, it was just branded into my thoughts. I'd go "shower, cut, eat, cut, breathe, cut". I'm a Christian so I finally gave in when I felt like I was disappointing God, and if you don't believe, well at least it was a good excuse to quit if I thought I had someone I couldn't hide the cutting from. It's a releasr that's honestly worth it, the irst few times....
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Yes because it calms you down. I'm not sure how or why, but it usually does.
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