News of Cutting and Self Injury Forum

Good Evening,
Today a close friend of mine (24, female) confided in me that she cut herself using scissors just have have some sense of feeling. She suffers from anxiety from time to time and, from what I've seen, tends to go in 'waves' of really good days and $#%^ ones. She has also told me she's currently feeling helpless, useless and lost - she simply does not see how great she is doing, where ...

I didn't believe my counselor ten years ago when she said I would struggle with this forever. I have relapsed here and there over the years. I feel in a rut. I mentioned this to a counselor. she told me of "alternatives" like holding an ice cube til it melts, or drawing cuts on my arms with a marker. I don't even want to try that, I know it won't be the same. I already ...

that's why I do it.

coping methods like putting your hand in ice won't work for me, because it's the blood I desire, not the pain.

I just needed to put that out their

Please try not to judge me. I don't like feeling like this and I want advice.

I've always had a problem with needing attention, ever since my brother died when I was 2 and presumably my parents were grieving and some attention was withdrawn from me.

I met my best friend over a year ago and we became very close very quickly. Trouble is, I can see now that that friendship made me to become ...

As title!

DISCLAIMER: I AM NOT DIAGNOSED WITH OCD. I DO HOWEVER HAVE COMPULSIVE TENDENCIES
TRIGGER WARNING

Lately, I've been on a compulsive roller coaster, triggered by my social anxiety which led to depression. As a coping mechanism (for lack of a better phrase), I ended up relapsing into my compulsive behaviors. I mean, I constantly have the urge to pick at my skin, bite my nails, etc., but I've picked up the habit of cutting as ...

Today I had a vicious overreaction to not being able to find my vape mod after buying new coils. I can't afford a new one and I've been wanting to see if it would help calm me down for about a month now since my coil burned out (so you can imagine how upset I was when I couldn't find it). Any way the moment I freaked out at my husband about it over the ...

Hello Everyone...

Please let me start by saying im sorry if I offend anyone in anyway. I have just come to discover this topic after talking to someone that i really care about. I just wasn't sure who to ask.

Well i have come to meet a beautiful lady online. She is great. She is a crisses counsler herself and a recovered self harmer. We have been talking for a little while and it seems ...

Hi. I'll keep this short. I went through a period where I was a cutter in 2008. Along with drug abuse and alcohol. I was domestic abused by my mom from 6-14. raped at 17 and sexually abused at 22. So since 14, I've always been self-medicating with a varied assortments of drugs, along with alcohol.
I'm now 34 and am working on sobriety. I don't want to be IV'ing anymore. Because that's where the ...

TRIGGER WARNING SELF HARMING.

hi there, im not exactly sure where to post this ? and i couldn't find where to post about self harm as a forum etc.

I'm sorry if i am not wording this right.

I'm 22 and The first time i cut myself I was 13, I was being bullied at school and home life wasn't so great. I haven't cut myself for a year and a half maybe but I ...