All cutting posts, this is the thread

wait i don't understand is bob shank like the maker or whatever of this website.. is that what give u the power to do that?????..

To answer the above question..yes! He is the whatever!

And today a person cut in front of me at the bank, boy was I pissed!!!!

There was someone above my post asking the above question, thought I would answer it.

Good, I agree with whoever came up with it.

Angelina wins first prize for post of the day,(very witty) apart from that I don't really comprehend cutting yourself.

But then again I have a great fear of needles and heights and medical stuff, even the dentist makes my nipples quiver in fear.

I would like some more insight into this as it just goes over my head.

Sometimes I have dreams that I cut... I had one where I just picked up a knife and just lightly slashed it across my hand, but started to freak so much when it started to bleed.
Anyway, if I want to hurt myself, I just go to martial arts. You wouldn't believe the bruises, and the muscle pain.... woah, beats any sissy "cuts" that you can make on the outside of a muscle :-D

//T.L.//

I had this creepy dream the summer after 6th grade where this dude carved his name into my arm TWICE (he had to write it twice because he wasn't sure how to spell it Garr...) because I defended a talking spiritual tree...

Later I turned that dream into a story, submitted for a grade four-six months after I wrote, got a B with a good deal of points tooken off for gore... And a little for grammar. I thought it was kinda funny.

Cutting? Nah... RUBBER BANDS! Woot! ha, no, but I did have one on my wrist once, and it ended up swelled by the end of the day >.<
I generally stay away from them now.

hmm.. a cutting thread is made.. and yet people joke about it.. what a surprise..

yer thats what i thought i dont think this is a good idea coz peoples questions wont be listend too or appreciated and cutting can be a big part of peoples lives and its just going to get laughed at
i really think this thread should be deleted
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yeah exactly, You know 40% of people have tried self harming at least once in there life? Its not exactly a laughing matter.

i totally agree. why do people laugh , ridicule and make fun of things that they don't understand? i personally cut, but none of my friends do and it is incredibly hard when you want to get help but people don't take you seriously. i think it is gross and disgusting that people take things like this so lightly and are able to make fun of it.

OI! Truest-Lies. Mate, have you ever ACTUALLY tried cutting? personally i go to the gym every day, and work out twice a week with a trainer and i tell you, there is nothing easy or painless there! but it is totally different to what people are tryign to do when they are cutting!

I cut my knuckles today... I don't remember how... I was bleeding everywhere though...
Haha, stupid coffee maker.

+.+ Lol. I've done that before. I ended up with this huge cut on my arm and now it's this disgusting scar, and I have no idea how it got there!! +.+

So, Stephie, are you actually ADVISING that truest lies cuts?

No, I am not advising that. I was just makign the point that everything is different for everyone and that people perceive pain differently. Do you understand?

Ohemgee!!!

So I was walking down the stairs last night, really upset because my sinuses were all messed up...and I had that tickling feeling in my nose before a sneeze...

so I was halfway down the stairs and I SNEEZED and the skin on my bottom lip ripped in two places like in two big, bloody cuts.

Ohmygod. It hurt REALLY REALLY REALLY badly...I am NEVER sneezing again. So for all you self-harmers out there....if you want pain, I recommend sneezing.

;-)

^^ HAHAHHAHAHA!

That made my friggin night.

-Jenna.

Haha glad to know my pain entertains you. ;-)

And the saddest part of all is that it was a true event and I was being serious about the whole...if you want pain, sneeze part...lol

^ Lmao, you are so cutee! =P

Stephie... I've never actually cut til I bleed. Once I snapped a rubber band around my wrist because I was under the misguided impression that it was relaxing... oh, and pretended that I was going to cut but I barely scratched myself.
I once used push-ups as a sort of self-harm, because I felt like using physical pain to get over emotional... what I was trying to say is that cutting might relieve you, but at the same time it does nothing except give you the risk of infection, so if you want some really harsh pain that actually does something good for your body the next day, work out until your legs burn so much you feel as though you've pressed them to a stove. Of course that too is bad, but personally I prefer it because I accomplish more, and by the time I've finished I'm so tired that any emotional pain has gone.
But everyone has their ways of dealing with things.
I also agree that this thread will mostly only be made fun of, and that self-harm is a VERY serious problem.

//T.L.//

You want to know what else is a VERY serious problem?

The fact that my lips are on fire because
1) I am addicted to sunflower seeds in all of their glorious saltiness
and
2)The cuts on my lips still aren't healed.

I feel like someone is holding a lighter to my lips but I just can't put down the darn sunflower seeds! OWWWIEEEE!!

^ Awhh.. =P

*Grabs the sunflower seeds and runss*

They're mine noww! Oh, and they won't burn your lips anymore! =]

^^ HAHHAHAHA! You're too cute!

-Jenna.

aweeiee BUT THEY WERE MINE! And I'm addicted! That's like taking the crack away from big bird! I NEED IT!

-falls on the floor and has a seizure-

^^ HAHAHHAHAHAHHA!!!!!!

Oh my word. I'm gonna get abs of steal reading all your posts!

-Jenna.

Im sorry but can someone please delete this thread? No one in there right mind is going to talk about any of there problems if they read this stuff.

People might read it and then think 'Ok this is what they say to a serious problem like cutting, what wil lthey say to me if i post a thread about wanting to kill myself?'

And then 1 week later they would of killed themselves. Something that might not of happened if someone helped them on this forum.

Let me tell you all something... words hurt. The tinyest comment can make people feel so low. This thread is NOT helping anyone.

I for one would not put any of my problems up on this forum. Bassically out of fear that you lot would laugh and make fun out of me.

So please can we get this thread deleted. You lot have had your little fun now.

I have to agree with TPAM I was going to post something on here a couple of weeks back but decided against it after reading the posts lol

donna: who's TPAM?

You are.. I agree that this thread is not useful to anybody that is a self harmer

Yeah it made me feel really down.
If you want to make a thread about cutting have one with tips on how to stop etc...
But this... this is just taking the piss. You all know it is. I prefer to have a million threads on cutting rather then have one that makes people scared to talk about it at all. Talking is meant to help. And i think the point of this section of the forum was so people could talk about there problems.

"Need a shoulder to cry on? Share your emotions and you'll feel better."

This thread just makes people want to run a mile rather then talk about the problems.

Unfortunately there are people that don't understand it, and to be honest with You I don't think I'd ever tell anyone on here that I have cut or am feeling depressed.. not in these threads anyway.. It's not worth making yaself feel worse

Thats just it, i wouldnt either.
i mean ill admit i cut, because ive got poems about it, but i dont think id acctually want to make a thread about it. People would just... well the reaction on this thread tells you.

Lighten up, will you? Please? I mean goodness, it was FUNNY, alright?

Are you going to come to this forum to sulk about how miserable and unbearable your life is?????? That's stupid! And quite frankly, no one REALLY cares. Maybe you should see someone in the real world who could sympathize with you, like a councillor or a doctor or someone. But life is hard enough as it is, why do you want to share your problems with the rest of the world? You already KNOW you're not alone. There's quite possibly nothing that you could be going through that someone else hasn't already go on before? Why waste your time, your life, away sulking and moping around and trying to get everyone else to be just as miserable as you?

Talk to your parents if you have a problem with your life. TALK!! That's a pretty simple solution for a common problem. You can't technically "talk" over the internet and even then, what good would that do you? Get help if you need it, if you don't, then try to move on.

If you're so depressed, don't you actually WANT to laugh? Isn't that what you're hoping for? Something to make you smile or giggle or laugh? Well if you want to be happier, start by taking things a little less seriously. And you might want to consider broadening your sense of humor. I know that "misery likes company" but there's no sense in dragging down someone else, too.

And I refuse to let stupid problems over the internet, or anyone's stupid, worthless, meaningless opinions on this site mess with my head or upset me. So bringing up the subject that "words hurt" it's a moot point. They only hurt as much as you let them hurt, only as much as you think about them.

Start thinking of the compliments you receive from day to day instead of the critisisms.

If I think of anything else to say, I'll come back later and say it.

Meanwhile, please develop a sense of humor.

Because my lips really DO hurt.
And they, too, would like some empathy or sympathy.

It isn't about not having a sense of humour, a lot of the stuff said on here is funny.. Only thing is sometimes people want some understanding.. Not sympathy but someone who has been there and knows how it is to be so disappointed in yourself for giving into temptation..
Only people that can understand is people that do it and when You come onto a thread which is supposed to be for that only for it to be made fun of it can be disheartening..
Most of the time I can look at what people have written and laugh with them, but the one time it was a big issue for me the one thread I could have used to vent couldn't be used..

It should be funny cutting thread.. People wouldn't get so het up over it if it was in the fun and humour section, but it isn't, it's in the sadness section and there are people out there that would actually use this the way it was meant to be used but are put off by the light heartedness of it.. thats all.. I can see it from your point of view, but can see it from a cutters point of view too

Thank you for being so mature in your response, really.

But I think you underestimate my credibility. A year ago, I was a cutter, losing all hope in life, attempted suicide every night, moping around because my life was going downhill.

But it was a matter of waking up one morning and realizing that I was sick and tired of letting my depression control me and push me to the brink of hell. It wasn't easy to regain control.

But the thing is that it wasn't a person of the internet, a doctor, or a councillor that made me truly realize the depth of that. It was myself. -I- was what pulled me out of it. I've been told that for so long but I realized my own strength in that time period.

Cutting is serious. It's sad and, in my personal opinion, pathetic. It's a cry for help whether you chose to admit it or not. And a cry for help can be translated for attention.

In some cases. Not all. There are those people who never say a word about their plans and their intentions. And it's them that I worry about. It's them who are more likely to kill themselves rather than someone here over the internet who is so eager to spill out confessions and tell everyone of their intentions because they want someone to stop them from committing suicide. Well, why pass the burden onto us? I, for one, don't want to be responsible for another person's life!

And that's why this whole forum is a bad idea (Again, in my opinon). It encourages to think and over-think concepts of suicide.

Now my life was and continues to be really hard to deal with sometimes. I'm not complaining though because I'm dealing. So please don't ask me to see it from a cutter's perspective. I'm an ex-cutter. I quit because it was the most pathetic way to get me think negatively and stay in that frame of mind. It was because of the fact that I was a cutter that I never saw the greatness of life from day to day because my eyes were half-shut or filled to the brim with tears. But I TRY to see clearly now. And it's a matter of seeing the glass as half empty or half full.

Are you going to be a pessimist and resent the life that you were handed? Even though nothing can stay rotten forever? That there's always a way out?

Or are you going to be optimistic and realize that while you may be stuck in a dirty, horrible situation, it doesn't necessarily mean you should take it out on yourself? Because even when life feels to be totally ruined, it's not. It never really is.

By the way, one more thing:

You get out of life what you put into it.

I make that effort to be happy or to make myself laugh during a depressing day. I make a huge effort to refrain from hurting myself and others around me when there's a cataclysmic disaster.

And a lot of people over this site have known me for about 2 or 3 years and they can probably see that I've grown.

I want to have a happy life. I don't want to die. I want to have a future. I want to have kids one day. I want to have a husband that's good to me. I want to have a house of my own and rules of my own for others to follow. I want to be so much more than I can be right now. So if I had killed myself a year ago, I would have basically screwed up my destiny and all my hopes, dreams, and wishes because the pain was too much for me to handle for the time being.

Think about it. Life has an unlimited amount of possibilities! Aren't you the least bit curious to know what's in store for you?

I also understand that, I too suffered from clinical depression for 9 years, I made the choice to dig my way out of it.. stay positive.. not give into temptation. I had a blip a couple of weeks ago [first time in almost a year] All I'm trying to say is that, that one time I would have loved to have someone to talk to.. not for sympathy, I don't wallow in self pity or getting pity from others.. I very rarely tell anyone how I am feeling or the things I have done.. especially on here.. Just to vent more than anything else, again which I don't do very often.
Being an ex cutter You know the seriousness of it, You can also see it from a cutters point of view.. Not everyone can stay strong all the time though, not everyone are coming on here for attention by saying they are cutting every day.. I for one needed to vent, and I hate stating my probs for the world to see, so this light heartedness in here actually did me a favour, because it stopped the world knowing.

Of course I'm curious lol I would not be here otherwise.. I already have 3 children and fight everyday for them.. I'm not about to kill myself, or get back into cutting. I am a fighter, but You yourself know how difficult it is to fight at times.. Just because I had one blip doesn't mean I'm going to dwell on it nor does it mean that I'm going to get back into it, I just think sometimes it's nice to talk to someone who understands and thats why I posted what I posted here about it needing to be deleted because it is not helpful

"If you're so depressed, don't you actually WANT to laugh? Isn't that what you're hoping for? Something to make you smile or giggle or laugh? Well if you want to be happier, start by taking things a little less seriously. And you might want to consider broadening your sense of humor. I know that "misery likes company" but there's no sense in dragging down someone else, too."

^^ I agree completely with that post. There are tons of other cutting threads on here and I am sure that you can find some people on those that are going through the same problems as you are. And I know that when I am down - I want a way to laugh. I have been diagnosed with depression for 9 years now and any little bit of happiness in my day makes that day worthwhile. So live - laugh - love!

But on another point, for some - it IS easier to talk on here because they don't have to face the people the next day - but for most it would be easier to talk to someone they know who can be there REALISTICALLY and hold them and dry their tears, not virtually.

-Jenna.

While I know the pain that a cutter feels, having been one myself in the past, I have to say that people are asking to be made fun of if they post there problems for the whole world to see.
There is always going to be people who don't agree with it, and don't understand it, and nothing you say or do will make them change their opinion on the matter.
Self Harm is a controversial topic, with many contrasting opinions, so to announce your problems to the whole world seems a little attention seeking.
Instead, talk to someone you trust, a family member, a friend, a tutor.
If that fails, a conslor.
Those are experienced enough to know what they are talking about, while many people who haven't ever resorted to self harm are not.
Think about it.
xx