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| Posted By: Chris Posted On: Apr 6, 2002 Views: 1383 | A suggestion for a new pole I think it would be interesting to find out how the people that dont think it was addictive started cutting ? Something else I want to know is: what percentage of cutters cut because they recognised it as an effective coping method from another cutter, or who started cutting without anyone in there peer group doing it prior to them starting. Its only suggestions, and before you accuse me of not knowing what I'm talking about, i'm 16 and I cut, and i only started after someone started my school that does it. |
| Posted By: Megan Posted On: Mar 24, 2002 Views: 1354 | .... well duh silly...gosh any cutter knows that... |
| Posted By: Angela Posted On: Mar 20, 2002 Views: 1151 | Addictive - YES I first started hurting myself at 16. I'm 27 now and I've stopped for the most part. I've relapsed here and there. And I use the word "relapse" because I strongly believe that self-harm is addictive. For me hurting myself eased the pain in my heart. The physical pain covered the emotional, and it became my only way of coping with pain. I have abuse and abandonment uses and the hurt, anger, and fear were too much for me to handle. Before I knew it I was hurting myself almost every day. I can't explain the feeling and release it gave me; but I'm sure you can relate. I tried stopping and I couldn't. I needed that release. I'm also a recovering alcoholic - so I know about addiction. My urges to hurt myself were just like my urges to drink. (I also drank for the same reasons.) You get to a point where you lose control. And what hurting yourself does for you - as unhealthy and damaging as it is - becomes a need. I started with cutting myself. Then I went on to burning, and swallowing things, and banging my head on the wall. Burning myself gave me the most relief. I craved the feeling of putting a hot lighter on my arm and pressing it hard. But this only allowed me to stay sick. I needed to break through this addiction and find new and healthy ways to cope. And I have done that. I had to learn how to feel the pain and cope with it. I had to want to stop hurting myself and get healthy. I had to get lots of therapy and find lots of support. I believe that self-harm is an addiction. But it can be overcome. Find the strength and hope inside you. Because it's there waiting to come out. |
| Posted By: fallen angel Posted On: Mar 15, 2002 Views: 1149 | self-harm I've been harming myself since before the age of ten. I've been adicted to many things in my life like meth, cocain, herion, alcohol, and I think I was even addicted to getting into trouble. They were all harmful to my health but I think that that cutting was the worst. I'm only 17 years old now and I was off drugs and out of trouble for over a year. The only reason for that that I can really think of is because I was in a jail for minors. That didn't stop me from cutting on myself though. I got in trouble for it a lot there but I never seemed to care. I know it hurt the people who cared about me and I know it hurt my room mates that I had but i didn't seem to care. It was the most selfish addiction and when someone would ask why I wouldn't ever know what to say. All I could say is I was stressed out or I didn't know what I was feeling I was confused. But they never seemed to understand. My counselers could never help me because they didn't understand it themselves. I don't understand why they don't get more people qualified in this feild. Sometimes I think I want help but I'm so tired of people asking or thinking that it was a suicide attempt. To tell you the truth sometimes I may not like life but I have never thought of suicied. I just like to cut myself. I use a knife or glass or a lighter or matches or razor blades and pins like a smoker uses cigarettes it just makes me feel better and sometimes it just gives me something to do. I'm not crazy and I'm not a freak I'm a person just like everyone else except I'm addicted. So if someone says it's not addictive remember everyone is different oppinions vary. Because for myself I can say I'm addicted. |
| Posted By: Danielle Posted On: Mar 11, 2002 Views: 1146 | self mutilation I really don't care what anyone says becasue it is VERY addictive. I have never done it my-self but just the way people I know talk about it. They can't get through their day without cutting themselves just once. It really bothers me the way people say its not addictive! email me back if you have anything to say. |
| Posted By: Deborah Posted On: Mar 9, 2002 Views: 1144 | self-mutilation in general I am seventeen years old, and I had never had an addiction before I began to cut myself. All I could ever think about was going home, locking myself in my room, and doing the only thing that ever made me feel like a real person. I now go to therapy and it has been almost four months since the last time I cut myself, but that doesn't mean I haven't wanted to! Sometimes I am by myself and all I want is to just grab my razor blade and watch myself bleed. Getting over it is so hard, I have gone through my own sick and twisted version of withdrawls, and I hate it. I wish I never would have had to turn to hurting myself, but I did. Now I am just trying to get over it and come out ok in the end. I wrote a research paper on self-mutilation recently, and I interviewed two girls my age, one with anorexia and one who cut herself, and both said the same thing I did. I asked them both if it was an addiction and they responded affirmative. My heart goes out to those of you who have endured this horror, and to those of you who have not, I pray you never will. But if anyone does go through self-injury of any kind, do anything and everything you can to heal yourself inside and out. |
| Posted By: ~ J ~ Posted On: Feb 23, 2002 Views: 1145 | Addicting? I must agree and say that cutting is very addicting. Why else would we cut? I'll never forget my first time. I'd never really thought about cutting, but something inside of me triggered my hand to reach into the bathroom drawer and pull out a shaving razor and rip the razor out of it and to cut my legs. It felt as though my soul had been set free from all of the hurt and i was so completely relieved...and relaxed...oh it was better than any drug. For the first time in months i had been able to sleep peacefully throughout the night...no nightmares...no migraines...no hurt. When i awoke the next morning, i was a little shocked at what i had done. What would my parents say if they saw...what about my friends...of course every one would react irrationally and think that i had lost my mind. So like many cutters, i covered myself so that nobody would see. Not more than a week later, i found myself buying a box of razor blades at the store and stashing them in my room. Over the years, i would use anything i could get my hands on when i started to "fall" and when it felt as though i couldn't climb out of that black hole that i've known too well all of my life. Knives, broken glass, razor blades, cut up soda cans, even sharp plastic that had to be traced over and over as i dug deeper and deeper each time to finally "see red". Cutting IS addicting...it makes all the pain go away...it makes everything "better"...at least for a little while...until you realize you need to do it again to feel "ok" again. I've gone into more detail on my personal site: http://members.tripod.com/psychotic_butterfly/bio/scars.htm check it out if interested...leave yer mark in the guestbook if so compelled ~blessed be~ |
| Posted By: sammy Posted On: Jan 11, 2002 Views: 1151 | re:is it addictive? i know that it is because i've had problems with it for five years. i have'nt done it for about a few months but when i get sad, i feel the urge.since i have found this site i feel for the first time i have friends, or people that understand. |
| Posted By: matt Posted On: Jan 10, 2002 Views: 1150 | Addiction Self harm.... is it addictive? Well, many schools of thought exist on this one. First of all addiction can be split into two parts: physical addiction and psychological addiction. I have no doubt that there is a strong psychological component to addiction, but what is the basis of that addiction. Is it because physical pain reduces the emotional pain? Is it because by punishing yourself you are fogiven for hurting others? Is it, like me, the sight of my own blood just helps me feel happy again. Some people speculate about a physical addiction, because the act of harming your self results in the release of endorphins (natural pain killers) in the brain. These chemicals work in the same way as morphine, albeit, in a milder fashion. Could this be a basis for addiction? There are so many unanswered questions. The sun will continue to shine. m xx |
| Posted By: Marsha Posted On: Jan 7, 2002 Views: 1149 | yes cutting is addictive. I have a friend who is still getting treatment from her first time getting help that was 5 years ago. |
| Posted By: Cheryl Posted On: Jan 2, 2002 Views: 1149 | Self harm- Addictive? I think self harm can become addictive because it makes you feel so much better because you have another pain to think about other than what you feel inside. I feel worthless but when i begin to cut myself I feel better I can't explain why. I suppose for me those few minutes of self harm expel my mind from thinking about things that have happened in my past. |
| Posted By: Emily Posted On: Dec 21, 2001 Views: 1153 | Self-Mutilation Yes, it is very addicting, when the realize that it can make the pain go away or leave reality and go into your own little world, then yeah, i'd do it! wouldn't you? but i've never done it before, i've tried but never accomplished actually slicing my skin. |
| Posted By: Erin Posted On: Nov 15, 2001 Views: 1153 | i know i wouldnt be in this site if it wasnt. although i have found somewhere deep inside me that allowed me to quite i had cut for many many years before i had the will power to do it and not do it any more. i know its still addicting because whenever im upset i still have the urge |
| Posted By: liza Posted On: Nov 5, 2001 Views: 1155 | is s/h addictive you bet your brand-new razorblades it is!! i'm trying to stop by examing what i hope to/actually do gain from cutting/burning/scarynonsense and finding other ways of getting these results. so now i have a class-a drug problem too - plus ca change, plus la meme chose (pretentious, moi?) |
| Posted By: Kenny Posted On: Oct 27, 2001 Views: 1120 | Cutting It feels so good, how can it not be addictive? |
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