Pardon my ignorance .. but what is obtained through SELF HARM ?!
Question: People claim they relieve of pain they are suffering from the outside world.
If i had a tiny cut on me i'd be jumping around in pain.
Yet self harming and wrist-cutting espescially is consider soothing ?
Why do people do it ? What is gained through it?
Answers: People claim they relieve of pain they are suffering from the outside world.
If i had a tiny cut on me i'd be jumping around in pain.
Yet self harming and wrist-cutting espescially is consider soothing ?
Why do people do it ? What is gained through it?
NOTHING.
People may cut themselves and think they experience a "high" where their pain is relieved and thay feel good, but that is NOT TRUE.
Thay may do it because they have a lot of emotional pain and don't know how to get rid of it, or they punish themselves, think they aren't good enough, or they have a low selfesteem, there are reasons.
I used to be a cutter, and even if you think oh that's gross and painful when you do it, it doesn't really matter, you still do
The sensation of the physical pain masks the emotional pain that the victim is currently experiencing.
nothing is gained through it, people who say that are lying. When you cut yourself you usually do it to gain other's pity and sympathy, it does not soothe pain but makes you feel depressed. Again don't do this, its just like an "image" that people try to maintain.
Whoever thumbed me down is someone who cuts and can't control their emotions
its not whats obtained but whats let out
it really doesn't help anything but some people just get stuck
ive been cut free for almost a year
I think it has to deal with being something they can control. They feel as though they can't control the other aspects of their lives that are causing them pain. Self harm is a kind of pain one can control. It sounds a bit twisted ... but self harming in general is a bit twisted. Just as many anorexics use food intake as something THEY and NO ONE ELSE can control. Self harming is the same way.
It is a mental thing.
When bad things are going on around you and you feel as though you have no control over the exterior cutting gives a sense of control.
The same with eating disorders sometimes. I deep need to have control over something.
Piercings, hair coloring and tanning can all come to fall under this categories if they become out of control.