I am 36 and still do it. Sometimes really bad. For me and many others it is a release of pint up emotions. It will give an immediate feelining of release. Like someone taking a hit. There is a self injury support group on here..check it out and you might find out some information.

I am 28 and I still do it too.

For me it's served a few different purposes. When I started it was to relieve panic attacks...for whatever reason it stopped them cold for a while.

They stopped working as panic-stoppers, but by then I was using it as a way to release anger. If I scream and yell and attack other people, I go to jail or psych ward. If I "attack" myself, nobody cares.

Another reason, for me, is almost verifying that I'm still breathing. When shit gets really bad and I feel like the walking dead, seeing the blood is reassuring somehow.

All of this sounds insane, I'm sure, and probably is, but those are at least my reasons. My mom has a very hard time with it as well, and I don't blame her.

i don't cut, but i go after my fingers w/ a hammer. sometimes causing myself unbearable pain keeps me from doing worse.

I'm 29 and still fight the urge to cut. It has been a few weeks since the last time I have done it. I fight the urge to do it everyday. I do it because it gets my mind off of my emotional pain. It helps me focus on the physical pain. Once I cut, it feels like a relief, and release of something I cant explain. But I feel better after doing it. Once I start, I keep doing it, I used to cut everyday, sometimes more than once. It helps me deal with my emotional pain. And this too probably sounds crazy, but its better than being sent away, cuz its just myself. Nobody cares about what I do to myself, so I hurt myself. You should really get ur kid to talk to someone. I wish someone would do that for me. But I have no parents, no family, so the cutting is like my only resort for help.