everyone is diffent i started with accidental harming and i progress to worse so all u can do is keep controll of it if u need help talk to someone get the help cause once it gets bad its hard to stop if u need to talk im here message me k hope i help a lil

when i cut for the first time i was 14 and i remember hearing about it in school so i tried it then stopped.....and then when i cut at 18 i rememberd how well it felt and i always cut on purpose, but everyone is different

i was in a sort of emotional frenzy when i cut for the first time relating to an argument with my then girlfriend, and it was just straight to cutting, no scratching. but scratching is still self injury (SI). i'm glad you came here before it gets worse. please trust me and others who say that ANY kind of SI is not a solution. if you progress to cutting, you'll have to deal with scars for the rest of your life. it's been seven years since i last cut myself, but i still deal with scars everyday, especially when the weather is warm and beautiful outside. i think you should continue to come here for as long as you want to, and maybe it will help you, and you can recover and not have to deal with the scars!! big hugs!

Thanks for caring and offering support guys, it means alot (:

when i first started it was more of something ridiculous. i had classmates saying i wasnt like this one girl, that i was too good to cut like she did. so i gave into peer pressure, first it was just scratching my skin then i moved on to cutting. that was almost eight years ago and i wish i hadn't started because now i have scars and it is very difficult for me to stop.

I just started full blown cutting. It was little cuts at first then as time went on it started getting worse; more frequently and the cuts started getting deeper. When I think back on it, I do not really know why I started and I definitely regret it because now I cannot stop myself. I urge you to get help because it really will turn into a serious problem if you just decide to look the other way. It got so bad I could not even wear sleeveless shirts or shorts at one point. I still have to hide them from my friend and family at times. I am much better than I used to be but I really hope you get the help you need. It's not even about the cutting really. Just the fact that you are hurting yourself at all. My parents used to take away my razors so I started banging my wrists on hard surfaces so it left huge purple bruises. The point is once you start to self harm, it is really hard to stop. You are a wonderful person and you have a great life ahead of you so I hope you do not take the path I took. I lost a lot of friends due to cutting. If I would take it back, I would. If you ever need someone to talk to, please feel free to message me anytime :) I hope you feel better!
-Kay

I started when I got so angry and frustrated I punched my wall. It felt good to release, so I would bruise my hands whenever my parents weren't home by punching the walls in my room. Then I wanted to punch the wall when they were home and couldn't...so I saw my exacto knife on my art table and made scratches in my arms. It slowly grew out of control to now where I have scars all over my arms.

always here if you ever want to talk.

Well.. i was going through a really ruff time at school like with bullies and my parents being horible to me my brother abusing me and also my boyfriend died and then i was in the bathroom and everything was just too overwhelming and i needed a way to let it out to let go of it and thats when it started i never wanted to kill myself just needed to get it all out of my system.. and firstly it was just small cuts till my problems got worse ended up almost killing myself.. If it wasnt for a friend who found me i would not be here today.

I started cutting when I was about thirteen. I was being sexually abused and cut my legs with a shaving razor. It gradually escalated to me keeping a small pair of scissors under my pillow so I could cut whenever the urge hit.

For me, it started when I was by myself at work and just OVERWHELMED with emotion after a weekend visitation with my duaghter. No one to talk to. It took about 5 years before I regained control over my demons. I'm now almost a year w/o injury.
Be strong.
HUGS

some idiots told me that they tried it and made out it was no big deal, with compasses. so i felt weird detesting to it, then one day when i was upset and bored i tried it with scissors and it released some energy i guess, i didnt do it often and i drew on myself in scars etc, then a year later i just picked it up again and kept going. Trust me, beat the habit now, its so hard for me right now.

I started scratching and now I can't control myself and cut using anything sharp. So this is what I tell you, STOP IT now! It's much easier to stop now than it will be in the future.

The way I started wasn't with scratching but I didn't straight on, deep, cut until maybe a year ago or two, I started in early eight grade with a dried out permanent marker. In my school, burning yourself with an eraser was the 'in' thing, I thought it was dumb but at one point I was sitting in my biology class, and found a dried out marker that still had a sharp tip. Before I realized it I was rubbing the skin completely off, as things progressed I rubbed my skin off with scissors and my nails. 10th grade I think is when I started really cutting with knives and things. I'm a senior now, and 40 days clean...

Thanks For All Your Advice Guys, I Will Do What You Say And Risist It

For me, I accidentally cut myself one day while playing with a snow globe. It broke, and bled profusely. The water in the globe was kind of salty so the cut itself was burning really badly.
After that, I craved that pain I guess. I was in 6th grade and had some stuff I was dealing with. It started out with scissors only. Then pins. Eventually it got to anything I could get my hands on (i.e. my bird's claws, breaking a disposable shaving razor or pencil sharpener). When I was out of it, I was out... I just needed to feel the pain.