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I have been cutting myself since the beggining of this year, and i can't stop. I do this because the pain I feel helps me forget about the things that have happened to me. I can't express the emotions i have because i feel they are too severe. Now i don't talk much and therapists are useless to me. I think I need to go to a mental hospital. Please don't make rude or stupid comments because i really need HELP!
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Please answer all of these questions, Thanx.
1. Doesn't that hurt ?
2. How old r u ? and r u a guy or girl ?
3. How bad is ur life that u want to end it, instead of change it ?
4. Where are u from and what r ur parents like ?
5. Do u have any friends that will take u seriously and not just make fun of u ?
6. What do u use to cut urself with ?
Answer those please.

Look all u have to remember is that if u dont like something in ur life, u have the power to change it without killing ur self or other people. And watever ur going through, theres always someone else who has done it before u.
"Please don't make rude or stupid comments because i really need HELP!"

If you really need help, why are you wasting your time here? If you are seriously looking for professional help, than this is a waste of everyone's time. I think you are looking for attention. I have no patience for anyone who cuts themself. If life's so bad, just push that blade a little deeper in your wrist and end it. Otherwise, accept that life is pain and generally sucks for everyone and the choice to deal with it and move on is yours to make.

Self mutilators are suicidial failures.
I'm NOT trying to kill myself you idiot.
do you feel pleasure when you cut yourself?? if you think your life sucks, then you maybe have no pleasure living it. what you can do is find something that will give you pleasure(different than cutting yourself). you know you talk little, so try hard, find someone to talk to. if you think you have no friends, you are definitely wrong. there is someone who will care enough to listen to you. is sometimes hard to find that someone, so dont feel bad if the first, second or third person takes off. a friendship or a person that has the carisma of listening to others are few.
take some kind of vacation! just go around. take your car or a bus with no specific direction for some days and just look around. talk to people, meet people.
is not like your life will be completely different, but will help you have time for insight and kind of getting your head in order. little by little, dont expect a sudden change out of nowere... you have to do it, it will not struck you.
There must be someone you can talk to [ guidance counsellor/ help-line/ youth outreach programme]. Remember that you are not alone, not matter what you think, all you have to do is ask for help.
that man iron is just rude
you need to sit down with some one and talk
go to a docter and ask for help they dont tell parent or you couldcall childline you really need to stop before it gets out of hand
okay im getting tired of you emo idiots giving us goths a bad name. stop fucking cutting your self. your just hurting your self even more. now go to a shrink!!!!!!
I myself, want to hear from cutiepie on this one...
emogirlsrule666 is like her evil twin and they are both 12
I'm with jigsaw on this. U emo kids r making me sick. Anyways..... Not the point, stop cutting ur self its useless. It won't help the pain.

Why don't u just kill ur self if u want to excape the pain. It'll be quicker and much much easier. But it will cause a lot of pain on the ones who love you.

Go to a mental hospital before u get out of hand a hurt you self or even worse, people around u.
So thats what that big gash is between your legs. Now I know must have been a fuckin big knife
OK Wat the F*ck !!! I usually make rude kill yourself comments, and the one time i'm trying to be serious and ask questions, i'm ignored, Are u actually looking for help, or just crying for attention ?
me, my brother, and his friends are emo but we don't cut ourselves.

why are you hurting yourself do you not realize that if you cut in the wrong place it's all over?
You are trying to express things you can't express. You can't talk to others so talk to yourself. Write it out. Just start writting about anything and keep on writting. Eventually it will come out. You can't deal with your problems by covering them up with pain. They will never go away. You have to find a way to bring them into your verbal world so that you can begin to heal yourself.
Anonymous
dont listen to all the dumbsh*ts on here. i know it's possible to stop and you can. you should just tell someone you trust and get help from there. on here we cant do much for you. and this is for everyone who is lableing. i HATE lableing. you guys are so retarted. who who calls themselves emo. come on

STFU or don't answer her question, it's as easy at that. No need to be assholes to her.

Yes, it's normal, but nobody on here can help you, especially not the ironqueef or the other sh*t bags who are telling you to kill yourself. You have to help yourself. It's not as scary as it sounds. A huge number of teenagers, boys and girls, cut themselves.

Go back to therapy and try again. If you don't like the shrink get another one until you find one you do like. Then be honest and patient. Therapy isn't a quick fix. There is no such thing. Also if other people are the problem, try externalizing. If someone says something shitty to you, like these elf porn masturbators (you guys know you do it too) think to yourself "why is he being a dick? is it because I suck? No, I'm okay. Maybe he's angry because he can't get a girlfriend and can only be aroused by looking at hentai pictures of elf girls getting soaked in tentacle monster sperm." That should help a little. lol. Anways, try to rise above it.
And like Ladybug said, try writing or drawing for an outlet. Most of the people here seem to want to help, so listen to them too. Ignore the other people. They have emotional issues.
Good luck.
F*CK ALL THESE EMO KIDS AND THEIR SHITTY F*CKING MUSIC. ALWAYS STARVING FOR ATTENTION. EMO KIDS = LITTLE C*NTS
a friend of mine has bin cutting her wrists due to depression , but cutting your self ent gonna get u no attention and its a mental thing to do. i think you need help! try councling , but u need help!cutting urself ent gonna solve athing
yeah i think you are only cutting yourself because you are 'emo' an you think you have to do it to fit in.. which is what everyone does over here when they hang out with all the emo kids
my friend cuts herself all the time. and she does it all down her chest. her legs. her arms.
and i just find it sick
even though shes my friend i think only retards do it.. there are other ways of getting attention you know
also how the hell can the pain help your problems go away? IT CANT
the only person who can help is yourself.
your the only person who can stop what your doing
Right, i think we need to clear a few things up here. Firstly all this emo, goth, chav stuff needs to stop. We are all people at the end of the day. NOONE has the right to tell you you are doing something wrong or to judge you. I personally self harm, reading this has frankly made me sick. Sick to think that some people actually may find it funny to cause more distress to someone who is already having troubles. This is my advice, noone apart from youself can stop you from self harming. I know how it feels to be so low you feel you have no alternative but to take your mind off things and do such actions. In asnwer to your question, yes and no, cutting is normal but very few people admit to it or have it noticed. Please do me a favour and do not listen to anything de-constructive people has to say. At the end of the day if they have nothing pro-active or helpful to say why bother. Do not hesitate to contact me if you want to talk.
Ignore everything anyone has to say that puts a downer on you. There idiots and dont know what its like to feel so low about yourself and situations your in the only way you can escape is to feel something. With most peopl thats pain. Its a problem only you as a person can deal with and there is no quick safe solution you can only do it in your own time and own way.
Talk to people get help but seriously take it slowly dont rush and push yourself to far to fast.
You will get there in the end. Dont do it for anyone else do it for yourself.
if u think u should go to the mental hosptial...GO TO THE DAMN MENTAL HOSPTIAL!!!!
yo.... where i come from a man got shot for tryin to smuggle drugs out of the country. dont complain about cuttin.
Ok,I have never gone threw have,but i have wanted to be emo before...(like today)but i think its kinda of stoupid to cut urself...thats not gonna help anything at all,my advice,is to stop cutting ur self,and get on with ur life,try to find somthing else to do other then cutting urself,like,drawing,writing.Or just take a walk alone and think about stuff,and u people sayin kill ur self..f u! u do not deserve to say that because u havent gone threw what he/she has bin threw so shut the Heck up!
Just because someone got shot and u think that is worse then cutting urself,its still rude because he/she is still going threw alot.
"EmoGirlzRule666 (3041)"

ahah well that explains it
youre an emo, and so this is perfect normal to feel
dont worry because im sure all of your friends also do it.
no cutting is obviously not normal!
no cutting is not normal!!!
"Self mutilators are suicidial failures."
Not true. Many cutter don't want to die. Read my previous posts.
just look at your screen name ..your hopeless...and u are only 13..what about your parents do they know? don't turn to us ..its your family that can really help..otherwise your gunna be depressed 4ever
she is 13
hi im rachael
im 13
i cut myself
and i think if you have a reason to do it then if you want to you can i do it all the time coz my life is so screwed up
and im always happy i smile all the time i laugh all the time i just plain happy u dont have to b depressed while ur cutting urself coz i have cut my self so much im starting to cut all the way around my arm coz i have no room.
XrachX
:)
hi my name iz amanda i cut to iv een cutting 4 3years... im just got the help of a friend and this iz wat u do u think of someone ur hurting everytime ur about to cut it heled me or distract urself yes its hard to do but it iz possible
if u really want help...
even tho i adore cutting.
is to do what got me busted because im the type of person who idc sees my arms and well wrong person saw and i had to see the shrink and welli told him he cant help me and hes wasting his time because i enjoy seeing blood and shit just simply show ur arms...