News of Cutting and Self Injury Forum

Well I haven't self harmed in like 2 months or so, but the urges are still very much there everyday. I told my parents about my s.h. finally. They didn't react too badly. I've felt a bit happier since summer has come around, although I haven't left my room hardly at all. I wake up anywhere from 1-3:30 in the afternoon and just stay inside on the days when I'm not busy.

Even thought I've ...

I'm reaching out to anyone who is going through/has gone through the same/similar things I've gone through/am going through.

I will find a pore or bump or anything I perceive to be a blemish on any part of my body and squeeze it. This causes some pretty nasty scabbing and scarring. Also, I used to pick at the scabs and just couldn't stop. I have small scars all over my body and two larger hypertrophic ...

Hi all,

I just really need to get this out as I'm not sure who to turn to.
I few days ago I dated this girl and it went really well. Later she was messaging me that she really needed positive supportive people in her life. I got really worried about my SH as I've been doing more frequently this year. She is the first person I have ever told about this. I've been SH ...

Hi everyone,

Long story short I self harm sporadically, only when I am in situations that upset me enough to trigger the SH. The thing is, every time it starts up again it becomes worse. I've not done it for around a month now, but I don't feel proud or anything as I've not had the urge to SH- therefore I've not needed to try and resist the SH. I feel as if I'm just ...

So, I do this nasty thing where I bite the skin around my cuticles. I'm not sure what it is, and I don't think anything in specific has caused me to do it. I am not sure if this is considered self harm, but I do feel addicted to biting. I'm afraid to look up what it could be, because what if I have some sort of wildly bad illness or something? I'm irrational, I'm ...

Is a happy wee girl, unfortunately she has intense anger outbursts, moodswings, not all the time ,usually can be set off by things not going her way. Several occasions she has got out the knife wanting me to kill her or she wanting to hurt herself or kill herself, she has punched slapped and kicked herself when she gets angry, saying everyone hates her breaks my heart because of course we don't. She extremely sensitive ...

I don't know what to do..

My little brother turned 15 just a couple days ago, and on his birthday I found out that he's been cutting himself. He'd been shut away in his room almost all day so I went to go check on him, only to find him pants-less and bleeding with cuts all over his thighs. I didn't know what to do, so I just stepped out and closed the door. I ...

What is everyone's experience with body art as a form to prevent self harm? I want to get a surface piercing where the worst of my scars are so I see something pretty when I look instead.

I have 20 years of history that I have put into neat files, tucked them away into annappropriate cabinaet, and left them there to collect dust. In the last two months, dealing with an undiagnosed illness that shows nothing on any disgnostics,scans, etc has left me feeling despondent and crazy.

I have been put on Lorazepam and Klonopin on seperate occauions, and neither has helped with my mania or crashes. I have hurt nyself in ...

So I've had a long history with self harm. It started as hitting myself back when I was 10 (I'm 23 now), and eventually it moved on to scratching myself which led to cutting. I've been cutting since I was 12 or 13 and it's been my preferred method. I once, a long time ago, tried burning myself and hated it.

It was the worst thing ever. And I thought so until recently when I ...