Why do people cut them selves?!
Question: why do people cut them selves?
i mean is it because they are hurt? is it because they are depressed?
no stupid sarcastic answers
Answers: why do people cut them selves?
i mean is it because they are hurt? is it because they are depressed?
no stupid sarcastic answers
This is a serious psychiatric problem. If you know someone who does this, please do them a favor and help them to seek professional help.
While working as a psychiatric nurse in an acute care psychiatric floor of a hospital, I experienced it all. While counseling someone with a history of cutting themself I found that they were abused in some way years earlier. Many sexually abused.
Any physical abuse connected with pain, both emotional and physical can lead to cutting on ones self.
Oftentimes the individual feels at fault for the abuse.Many times they feel guilty. They are filled with a mix of feelings, especially if the abuse came from a mother or father, the very people who are supposed to keep a child safe and secure, has been the very person to cause pain and emotional upheaval.
They cut on themselves (or sometimes burn themselves) because the pain they feel will make the inner pain they feel constantly, go away for a little while. Hard for most people to understand, but it is a temporary cure for those tormented by memories of an emotional pain so deep, nothing helps it.
They are urged to talk, talk, talk, talk about their inner pain. Come to tems with their feelings and why they feel the way they do, and learn to forgive both the abuser(s) and themselves before they can heal.
Hope this helps. May God help you to help whomever has this problem.
I am a registered nurse.
It is usually because they suffer from depression and/or anxiety. Oftentimes, they also suffer from OCD.
Hi--For people who can't fathom deliberately hurting themselves, self-injury may seem shocking and frightening. But for people who do injure themselves by cutting or other means, self-injury offers a momentary sense of calm and a release of tension. Unfortunately, that's usually quickly followed by guilt and shame and the return of other painful emotions. And with self-injury comes the very real possibility of inflicting serious and even fatal injuries.
Self-injury isn't a specific disease or condition. Rather, it's a type of abnormal behavior. It may accompany a variety of mental disorders, such as depression and borderline personality disorder. Because self-injury is often done on impulse, it's sometimes considered an impulse-control behavior problem. Self-injury is also known as self-harm, self-injurious behavior and self-mutilation.
Although it's hard to estimate how many people engage in self-injury because some never seek treatment, it's thought that about 3 percent to 5 percent of Americans have deliberately hurt themselves at some point in their lives. Self-injury may be more common