Self-Injury Support Group
Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.
I want to cut so bad that my skin itched. My daughter really made me urgy. I stayed in bed today, but then that was the plan. I was very good - didn't take anything. Okay, so I drank a little. Geez, okay, a lot, but it helps me sleep. I really want to cut. The feelings makes me feel shame. My body stores up the urge for days then when I am alone with my thoughts, the bubble burst and the urge is overwhelming. The cutting is bad then, but I am trying not to anymore. Theraphy didn't work, so I am trying to stop on my own. Rambling. . .
why did ur daughter make you wanna cut?
Lilu,
I don't know if my itch is the same as yours. That's just what it feels like to me - to urge so bad that you can feel it outwardly. I just really need to cut. The feeling hasn't gone away. Right now, my daughter is talking to me excitely, but the itchy urge is so strong that I don't understand her.
What did she do to make me so urgy? I guess it is really not her - more of what she did. But then, that's always the way. She waited for me to go to sleep then sneaked a guy into her room. I got up just as he was leaving. I squelched the 'go off' in me. The the urge to cut was like overwhelming - just at the spot that I do it. I didn't cut - instead I drank then went back to bed. I think the problem is that I don't know how to handle things the right way - whatever that means. I cut when I am upset. It makes me feel better. I don't think the cutting is working, but I crave the feeling it gives me. The sensation is taking over my life. I really am trying to stop.