I cut, scratch, bit myself, and hit myself. I do these because it brings me a feeling of comfort. For those moments I feel that everything that is wrong is gone.

For pain...if I didn't scar I would be okay with it. But I do scar, obviously, so I can't get rid of them. They're there and getting rid of them would be like trying to rid of the past.

Its not about pain for me as I dnt feel any and its not about the rush of endorphins either cos I dnt get that. Its more of a visual thing. I like to see myself bleed, its like all the bad things flow out of me. I do consiously like the scars I have but unconsiously I dnt. I don't do it for the scars tho, as I have said, its the blood I do it for and to go with that this may sound weird but I like to look at whats under my skin, I cut deep, (through fatty tissue) and can see my veins more clearer and I can visulise what would happen if I'd cut just that little bit further.

Im not sure why i do beacsue i do it with realising it sometimes like scratching!
I hate the scars because they remind me of what happened whay i did them in the first place!
i do it till i feel pain or so it just to get rid of pain as a distraction of what i feel like a paradox of what i feel
rose x

i'm not exactly sure, i dnt think its for the scares because i hide them all the time. sumtimes i do it for the pain, i need to hurt myself to feel alive, and i can cope with the physcial pain beter than the emotional pain. i burn and do other things aswell as cutting so i dnt think its the scars its more the pain, and a relief thing

you bleed to know your alive

I bite and deep scratch for the pain phyical relives emotinal i have scars but they just show what has been done.Right now i wanna yet dont wanna cuase the pain to self to relive emotinal pain.

It used to be both. I carve words into my skin, certain ones I wanted to scar. Now I'm trying to let the cutting go.

Probably both for me.
But I don't like the pain, for the most part, I like the feeling afterwards. It's all intertwined, anyway, is my feeling.

yeah I would say both..because I have scars and I would just die somedays if I didn't have them..but then again I love everything else(sometimes)...I'm trying to stop.

I hate pain!!!!!... and i HATE the scars... i think i do it jst 2 show how much im hurting on the inside on the outside.... its one thing 2 tell some1 ur not feeling so great and another to turn up with a disgusting cut on ur wrist. Maybe i think people will take me more seirously.....(which doesnt make sense because i got 2 EXTREM lengths 2 make sure no one finds out im doing this or see's them!)... maybe i do it 2 show me the pain's real...... AHH DAM U GOT ME THINKING.... lol

i cut for the pain, i need to bleed, so i have been left with some really bad scars and i hate them i cant even look at my body in the mirror ne more!

i dont think either. I think in my case anyway its simply overwhelming guilt of the eating disorder the pot addiction all of it and the affects its having on my kids. I simply hate myself.

i do it as its the only thing i have found that calms me when i feel outta control. i dont feel any pain and as soon as i see the blood i feel so much better. i hate the scars as i have to keep them hidden from my children. i look at them and feel guilty but the urges to cut still keep coming its 1 big vicious circle that i cant control

when i'm cutting, i want the pain... i use it to deal and forget what's happining... and after that, for the next 24 hours or so i just want the scar... to know that i actually did do that... and then after that i just want it all to go away, which is usually when i cut again