Why do you cut? what do you think of the whole cutting idea?!

Why do you cut? what do you think of the whole cutting idea?

ok why to you cut your self? I use to cut my self not to be emo but for personal reasons and i recently stopped. I am just wondering why other people cut them selves.

1 month ago
i am getting help. that is why i stopped. duh!

1 month ago
i never cut for attension i tried to hide it

People cut themselves for many different reasons. It is not always a cry for attention. I think that people are becoming more aware of it than ever before, so there comes this stigma that it is done only for attention. People think they know so much about it, when in reality they don't. People with Borderline Personality Disorder tend to engage in self-harming behaviors for attention, although it is on a subconscious level. People with Bipolar 2 tend to self-harm, but for completely different reasons. Many different disorders can have self-harm as a symptom. People also start self-harming for many different reason. Mostly I believe it is a way to cope with an overwhelming emotion. Many people who self-harm have been abused, but many have not. It is a coping mechanism that is picked up and continued because it works. I self-harmed for 15 years and never once thought I was doing it for attention because I never told anyone, I was ashamed of it and I hid it. I realize now that in a way it was a cry for help. One of the reasons I did it was to put my emotional pain in physical form, so if I did show someone they could see how much I was hurting (although rarely did I ever let anyone see). Cutting can be seen in two ways: a very serious symptom of a serious psychiatric disorder or from a traumatic background, or it can be seen as body modification, along the lines of piercings and tattooings.