Why do people cut themselves?

I dunno. I think it's stupid though. My best friend WAS emo, and she started cutting herself. I asked her why and she said," Well, when people hurt me, I wanna hurt them so I express my pain by hurting myself." I told her, " Why would you hurt yourself after other people hurt you? Thats almost like hurting youself TWO times! It's useless and a waste of yer time."... And she quit being emo. (:

Let me take you back to when I was in sixth grade. I did it for attention, at the end of the year I cut myself to get popular, then I realized that the pain I was going through to get popular didn't matter, I stopped. In seventh grade I lost a lot of friends, I was completely and utterly alone, I made best friends with this girl in my science class and after that I moved. I moved in the summer of seventh grade. Then I was so depressed about starting a new "life" that I wanted to cut, but for a different reason: To be able to control the pain.

That's the only thing I could control, the pain.

but I never cut after sixth grade.

Because they feel they have a lot of pain in their lives that they can't control and cutting is the only pain they have control of. It is a way to have some say in the misery they feel. By being the one in control of that pain at least, then they get some measure of relief when inflicting it on themselves.

I can't give a definite answer, since I've never done it myself. Although I know many people who have, and they say it's simply to create pain on the outside to take their minds off the pain they're feeling on the inside. :l

Im a cutter and i think i cut because there is so much pain inside of me. When i cut it fills like some of the madness and anger inside of me releases.

HELLO hey i m not saying that you are stupid but i have one solution i think if u act upon it u will never go wrong...........In this world, man is a target of death, an easy prey to calamities, here every morsel and every draught is liable to choke one, here one never receives a favour until he loses another instead, here every additional day in one's life is a day reduced from the total span of his existence, when death is the natural outcome of life, how can we expect immortality?

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

please when you have some problem just go and see your problem is not big enough see the victims of flood in pakistan i think u will forget your tension you know they don't have food to eat and they had alot of problems..................

People who are suicidal, do it just for fun. They do it and it makes them feel better when they're sad, without killing themselves.

Honestly, i think that people cut themselves for one of two reasons. One: they want attention. Two: They are just simply not happy where they are, and dont know of another way to deal with the stress of the situation.

1.If serious, they do it to replace emotional pain with physical pain

2.Or, they feel insecure and they feel a need to be classified for attention.

Practice for cutting vegetables.

Agree with # 1 :)