how to help people to stop cutt

i think of some one i like

i cut it makes everything worse and its addicting first i cutted because i felt horribly but now anythign is wrong and i think of cutting it sucks but i feel like i needed and if i dont cut i will die i need to see blood to know that im still living and as for to think of someone you like for me it doesnt work :( because someone i like i can't be with ... i think of...................................dying and then i get scared lolz i know it's gay but .....

if you cut, you're weak. don't do it because it's pointless. if it doesn't hurt you, it still makes you bleed. there's other ways to feel alive, than seeing blood flow from your veins. go out and actually DO something. don't stay in a low state of mind... if something goes wrong, you try to fix it, not sulk and cut. it's just stupid. dying is more sensible than cutting.

Yeah, its a really hard thing to get over, i use to say i use to cut, but i started back over again. Now im having dreams of cutting and seeing the blood. I had to look at my arms to make sure i didnt cut, It was so wierd, I wish i could stop cutting and I thought for sure i had quit, but i keep slipping up. I never use to be to the point i wanted to die, but I feel horrible, now im wishing for my last breath to come shortly, and I easily come down with depression, and I want to die, I want to cut, I want to pop pills i want to fly. I want an escape, cutting is a very strong addiction, but who knows some peopel are able to over come

yeah my friends are there, but i guess doing it for so long doesnt help, i miss feeling free. it doesnt help when you dont know where to begin, everyone says take the sharp objects out of your room, the knives lay around my bed, because of my pasts, and my night terrros, what if "he" comes back and hurts me? then the next step is to tell your friends, That doesnt help, do they really understand, they dont, none of them have been there in the same position, i feel struck and trapped, like i have taken the wrong steps in a ended up in a trap.

ur 17 and a trained counsellor cool

im a peer mediator. too young to be a counselor, but just old enough to advise my peers. (its pretty easy because i'm crazier than them) I try to help my friends the best I can, but I don't go with the "normal" fashion these days.... i have my own fashion + they look at me weird cuz i dont look a thing like the people who don't follow dress code.

I want a counselor so bad... or a shrink.

i can't take the world sometimes, but i realised yesterday...

"Why should I hurt myself if everything around me is already doing that? I should be comforting myself because if I just hurt myself more that means that I'm not worthy of controlling my own body. I should love myself more and stop crying."

I just raised my head and let the tears stop and roll down....

I am a cutter and quite clearly I am addicted! I developed severe depression after I was first diagnosed with anorexia and the cutting started shortly after that. My arms and legs are covered in scars but to tell you the truth- I do not know how to stop. For those of you who say cutting is stupid and that cutters should stop cutting- realise that they cut for a reason and it is addictive!

If something bad happens, I used to go and hang with friends, go on a walk, or just write poetry. ^0^

-*-Cherri-*-
(For poetry: Just find a nice quiet place, I usually went outside at night and sat on the ground in the grass and laid down and just let my fingers and hands do everything. And let my imagination take over.)

you guys... I know it's not that you are weak. And trust me, I know what you are going through, I have gone through hell and I used to be a cutter too. But please don't think it's crazy to go to a counselor or therapist. It's not bad. They can help you soo much and make you so much happier... so please just think about it. I haven't cut in three years and I'm so happy now. Don't mean to preach or anything lol but you really need to go talk to someone.

Let them cut. If they REALLY believe cutting is the answer, what's the point in stopping them? It just annoys them if we try to stop them. If cutters knew how bad cutting is before they actually cut, maybe that could have stopped them. But if they DO think that they can stop cutting, it should come naturally.

i used to cut...5 years since i was 10 and i stopped 4 months ago. people who knew thought i was wierd and that it was nonsense to do it. but in reality there is a good reason, its just not the best way to express yourself. someone can only stop if they wat to. it is addicting but you can get over it. my best friend asked me if i regreted the scars i have...and i don't. they tell a story and a lesson that i learned. you can't make someone stop doing somthing they wat to...

hi ive cut before but im not addicted, but sometimes i feel so low before i know it im home holding a blade . . . its so comforting to draw it across and . . .

my first time was when i was feeling so depressed because my mum had been away for so long on a trip and i kept coming home to nobody, at school i used the edge of a ruler to make lines on my skin (very bored, simple pleasures) and i saw scars on myfriends wrists. i remember drawing the ruler across and thinking about how stressrelieving it felt, went home and cut.

i regret it but it works better than well, other ways so. . . .

im left hung up in lost love with nowhere to turn and i jsut feel like cutting myselfd because i was left for no reason and things cant go back.

and unless thigs goback i feel ill never be able to stop , it just hurts so bad.

Vic- cutting doesn't mean you're weak and don't tell us that it's pointless because maybe that's how we deal with issues and so what if you deal with your issues differently. No one is the same and no one is perfect. What if I told you the way you handled things was wrong...well I'm sure you'd probably get defensive. So until you've ever actually experienced cutting first hand... dont' be so quick to make judgments.
I totally understand that cutting is not the healthiest way to deal with problems but some people, including me, do and it's not something we can just leave behind.
Cutting is an addiction.
Please don't judge cutters.

I agree it is an addiction, and just like any other addiction, to stop you really have to want to. This sounds stupid and cliched but it's true and it's the reason that it's so hard... deep down I think the reason I failed so many times was that I didn't really want to stop, I used to make deals with myself, but it didn't work but recently I have made a deal with someone else...They give up their vice and I give up mine...for me it is easier knowing that I'm resisting to stop another person harming themselves....I don't know of this will work for anyone else but so far it's working for me. Hope this has helped. Also Chocolate cake after so many days is a very good incenive, like rewarding yorself for how well you have done.....and hiding sharp objects is a good idea, but trust me....if you get real bad anything will do. Just trust in yourself, I have hope for all of you...even myself. Hope this has helped.
*VioletRaven*