Does anyone here who live with ocd self-injure aswell?

silver_bullet6988 wrote:I cut myself on my upper left arm mostly although I have on my hips and the side of my left wrist. It was never to commit suicide or to even really hurt myself. I just really like the way it makes me feel and to see the sight of my blood. I don't know for sure if you would consider this part of my OCD or not, but I do have chronic OCD and cut myself. The only thing that bothers me about it is when other people see the scars. I do not want anyone seeing them, but I love to look at them. It's strange. Like my little trophies or something.

Hi,

I know, it is exactly like that for me too. But I try not to do it anymore because it gets difficult to hide the scars and I realise that even if it feels good it is very self distructive. And also very addictive.

I have a scar on my left upper arm too and some on my legs and I hate to think someone would see it.

I do think it has to do with the ocd though because that is where the anxiety comes from.

Take care and thanks for posting!

When I was around 16, I compulsivly pulled my hair in the same spots taking many hairs at a time which ended with me being completly bald in one big spot in my head. I know this problem has another name other than ocd, but because I have ocd I know it's related, because I ripped when I started to get distressed over a large amount of repetitive toughts.

I stopped after in school one guy noticed and everyone looked at me. I said nothing and noone actually cares. Never done it again and never cut myself. I use to get extremely distressed and punch a wall or twitching my fingers(the tips of some fingers are kind of weird looking on very close watch).

I read that ocd gets less worse with age and I have certainly felt it. It's not nearly 1% as strong as it once was. It's still frustating sometimes.

yeah, have unbelievable ocd.....rituals,numbers,touching,sequences,u name it.....takes hours evry day to complete to perfection so nothing "bad" happens.....and have been a major damage cutter for bout 10 yrs on top of it....and the icing on cake is diag at 12 with rapid cycle bi po.......makes life pretty much a horror movie every day.fam hist. of big ment. illness.....but, somehow i get thr it...some days just have to hold on for the ride....been on evry med in the world i think.....all made it worse.......so i stick to self medding with a cocktail of stuff that helps some, and beer, massive amounts of beer.wel, there's the nutshell version. be well, n safe all.....'core