Why on Earth do people cut themselves?!
Question: That just seems like a really absurd thing to do. When I'm depressed, I have a few beers (more than a few). Cutting oneself just seems pointless.
Answers: That just seems like a really absurd thing to do. When I'm depressed, I have a few beers (more than a few). Cutting oneself just seems pointless.
People handle stress in different ways. You drink, I become artistic and draw, and others cut.
Cutting is a way of gaining control. Someone who feels that they have no control can cut to feel that they have come control. Also, it can be a distraction.
From a scientific standpoint, cutting releases endorphins. Endorphins are analgesics, and provide a feeling of "well-being".
They have serious mental problems. I used to know a cutter. She was whacked out!
crazy
it's the same reason you gotta have beer when your depressed, i would guess, maybe some of it's religious ,i would have to guess that adrenylyn is a factor also
It's hard for us to understand, but I read in the newspapers awhile back that the emotional pain these people are experiencing or have experienced such as abuse by parents or step parents, alcoholics in the family, drug abuse, these things at times can be so painful for some that in order to get distracted from the emotional pain, they need a physical pain to concentrate on. When your mind/heart is hurt, it takes a long time to heal, for some people, healing never takes place. When you are hurt physically, for the most part, you will eventually heal. It's easier to concentrate on a cut on your arm than to keep thinking over and over again that your step father just raped you and it's been more than once and your own mother does not believe you.
Beer seems just as dangerous...But some cutters are cutting themselves to fit into the "emo" crowd...sounds stupid to me. Others are trying to kill themselves. If you cut the right part of your wrist you hit a major vein and can bleed to death. This is how it all got started. It's just a way that some people handle stress, mostly teens.
It's an--unhealthy--coping mechanism.
One theory is that, they focus on the pain they are causing themselves, instead of the mental pain they are experiencing.
Its a form of expression. And often its not to get attention etc - people can go to great lengths to hide it.
Plus it releases natural endorphins - "painkillers" - which can help people feel better.
I'm not sure its necessarily something people do when depressed - it can be when stressed, frustrated, or like I said, feeling emotions that they can't express any other way.
The main dangers are of cutting a deep artery, which could cause dangerous amounts of bleeding. Also theres the potential for infection.
More significantly, people who self-harm are at greater risk (statistically) of suicide. Its important to find another way of coping to try and reduce this - people can get dependent on cutting, and not seek other ways of alleviating their suffering.
It can become almost like an addiction. If cutting stops working, people might feel as though theres no other answer, and commit suicide.
Few beers same thing as a few cuts or a few cigerettes or a few drugs.
You answerd your own question. Just look at yourself.
I think some people drink to fit in to the beer drinkin croud. Its the "normal" thing to do when depressed.
Because sometimes people have so much hate that they feel they need to cause themselves pain.
Seems crazy, weird or whatever but to each his own you .Everyone is different and everyone show's and feels pain differently, doesn't mean we need to turn our cheek from them, just means that they have some issues that need to be token care of and sometimes people need a little more help than others.
You're actually doing a lot of harm with those beers. People who choose to cut tell us it's a relief. They feel frustration and hurt and dont really know what to do to bring relief. Cutting is something they can control. Just like you slugging down a few brews. On the whole, people who cut and people that drink too much are treated pretty much the same way in our hospital. You both have a way to deal with your problems that only creates more problems. Maybe a short course in empathy might help.
There are people who have never really learned how to 'speak up' or 'speak out' for themselves. So when something/someone makes them angry - they aren't able to show it. So when something/someone makes them sad - they aren't able to show it. Stressed out? Can't relax. Worried? Can't verbalize it.
They haven't been given the 'normal' tools to handle negative feelings. They just keep it all in.
Some people, when they get so keyed up, 'explode' their feelings outwards, landing on others. Screaming, hitting, breaking things. Then they feel better.
People who self harm, tend to care a lot what others opinion of them is. They don't want to hurt anyone else, so they 'explode' inwards. They create a physical pain that is strong enough to 'blot out' the psychological pain.
Temporarily, at least.
It works for them, it can be hidden so that no one will say they are 'a freak' or 'crazy', and they can keep up their 'nice helpful' appearance to others.
It's also an addictive behavior, meaning they start to need more and more intense pain (or more often) to have the same relieving effect.
To relate to this act think: have you ever been so frustrated that you wanted to bang your head against the wall?
Much milder form of the same thing.
Well doesn't getting drunk to get away from ones stress seem pointless and isn't alcohol just like another drug? At least when I cut, I'm sober and I feel the pain. But do you feel pain when you drink a few, or more, beers? Why do I cut, cause when everything in my personal life is so hectic that I cannot control anything, the thing I can control is the pain of me cutting! The same with eating disorders too.
its a temporary solution to problems that ppl dont feel like dealing with
but wat they dont realize is that the cuts will stop bleading and the scars will fade away after time but the issue that there not addressing isnt going anywhere
and i kno it might sound like it would hurt to cut yourself but ppl who do that feel too much emotional pain that they may become numb to it
and even if it hurts they feel that it hurts less than other pain that they could have and sumtimes causing physiacl pain makes the emotional pain go away but like i said its just a temporary solution ( =
It's got nothing to do with being "whacked out" or "crazy". It is simply a mental disorder similar to bulimia, depression, anxiety, overeating, or any other mental disorder. Their neurotransmitters are out of balance and something about the pain of the cutting takes their mind off their other problems... almost as if it's a relief. You can never know the pain and misery of a mental disorder until you've lived through one. I was so depressed, that killing myself seemed like the only relief from the misery of depression. Fortunately, I found the right kind of help and now I can look back on it objectively and subjectively... unlike the majority of your answerers who are merely offering up their baseless and useless opinions.
Cutters are so tortured by the pain inside them that the physical pain seems like a release; because it takes the autonomic response to the physical and keeps the mind off the mental.
Don't do it personally, but I had a few friends in High School...
drinking isnt much better. you do it to feel better right? well i cut to feel better. so yeah it sounds crazy to some. but it works, even if only for a little while. and i do belive the effects of alchol where off too. so isnt drinking just as pointless as cutting.
Because cutting takes the pain n the inside that you can feel but not define and makes it external where not only can you feel it, but you can see it, treat it and deal with it.
No its not emotionally healthy, nor is drinking to excess....or any destructive behaviours.
Cutting can help to ease emotional pain instantly, and as has been said here, the brain releases chemicals to actually make you feel better.
I have done it, and totally understand why.
When things got out of my control,Eg; and in the middle of a screaming fight with my bf I would run into bathroom, and lock the door and just cut my legs, and as soon as I saw blood, I would stop crying, feel relaxed (although upset) and be in control of something. My body. I actually felt NO pain, compared to the emotional pain I was feeling at the time.
Another angle is, "i can always hurt myself more than anyone else can" way of dealing with years of feeling out of control, and cutting gives back control, in some sick way.
I am left with scars, both emotional, and physical.(one time I accidently put myself in hospital, I cut way too deep, problem was addressed) Good accident, I got the help I needed. Plus hate the scars I created.
Its nothing to do with being depressed.