i just started cutting....?

obviously you should stop...

before it gets out of hand

before you go too far and wind up in the hospital

before it gets infected..

suggestions:

cutting is sign of serious emotional distress. get help, talk to a counselor. ignoring or escaping emotional distress will only make things worse... my life, where i am is because I've ignored them for 18 years

each day you ignore it you dig yourself deeper into a hole... a few years later you'll be in so deep you can't dig out without major sacrifice, 18 years... well you're screwed. and I know i am, because i must be insane to like being crazy half the time and depressed the other half.

if you're keep doing at it i suggest you stay the heck away from the dark lines in your leg/ankles because you'll have a very very bad did if you cut a vein!

i cut mostly on my arms. of all the places to cut I've determined that to be the safest... obviously there is no safe place to cut at all, but the arm is the lowest risk for serious complications.

from my experience, cuts will get deeper and it's only a matter of time you end up wit ha serious problem...

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i'm clearly not the same as you (or other cutters) because I don't cut for punishment, emotional distress, stress relief, anxiety, suicidal or attention seeking. I do it because I'm bored.

i do many shallow cuts, most of them bleed anything from a few drops to a stream, I don't want to go deep to avoid serious complications and also with light cuts i can do as many as i'd like and they'd heal so i can cut again in about a week. they also don't scar much so when i'm over this thing i won't be facing long term consequences.

it might sound really retarded to cut because i'm bored.. .but that's only because you don't know what i mean by that. i cut to pass time or stall over certain urges/impulses. particularly the ones that involve shooting noisy birds or noisy neighbors. i don't see a problem, the problem is what society will do to me, and i think it's unfair because i never joined society on my own free will nor did i ever agree to follow their norms or rules.

well i normally kill the the birds unless the neighbors are watching. they love the noisy birds, think they pretty. they clearly haven't gone sleepless nights and daytime headaches due to the bird's 'singing'! i compare it to a air horn next to your head all the time. my ear drums BLEED when mockingbirds wreck their terror in my backyard!

there's other things that i'd do that sound fun but for some reason people have problems with it... i don't get why people get so upset when some strangers are hurt but completely ignore other stranger's pain...

As someone who has cut, I really do think you should stop.

I know for now it may be a decent release or a way to cope but in the long run, it truly isn't worth it. I hope you remember that even with the difficult things going on in your life, hurting yourself or someone else won't do any good or really fix the problem.....it'll only stop the pain from it temporarily. Please don't cut anymore. It's not worth it. To be honest it'll only make things more complicated :c

Good luck ^.^

I did it too on my thigh, no one will ever look at my thigh so it was always hidden

I regret doing it. They scar! The pain is nice, i used sharper tools than a pencil sharpener blade but ask yourself this: is it worth it?

The pain, knowing that people could find out, the scars, the tissues dyed with your blood?

Stop before it gets too bad, please?

I don't know you but you only get one beautiful body... It'll be a shame to just put blades to it x

Suicide is not exactly cowardly. You have to have some sort of balls to kill yourself. But cutting is cowardly because your not killing yourself your causing pain. And honestly its not worth it. I've cut myself once and bled A LOT.. it was leaking down my arm like crazy now I have a 4 inch scar going vertically up my veins on my forearm. Luckily I didn't press any harder cause I probably wouldn't be here today. Just pray get active and loosen up. Relieve some stress and if need be get mental help

I have been depressed for over 3 years now. Let me tell you it gets no easier. Your mind will play you. personally have self harmed once and never again. Think about it. (Religus) God made us the way we are, Why damage that. (Not Religeous) Im not suggesting anything but Cutting yourself is cowardice. As for suicide. Think of it as taking the cowards way out. Chin up. Im sure anything that has happend will settle down soon. Keep smiling. Somebody loves ya out there.

1. Don't feel guilty. 2. Know that people care. 3. Ask yourself why got so mad at yourself, if you were mainly just mad at others for something they did, or if it was something that was totally your fault that made you angry. 4. Tell someone how much pain you're in---a friend, a counselor, or someone else who can help. 5. Repeat steps one and two. Work on forgiving yourself, and know that people care. 6. Improve your situation, if possible.

Yes you should stop.