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.

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Pathetic.

BridieNM
BridieNM
The only thing I can think of to make me feel better is cutting, I don't have the guts, I'm pathetic. I feel myself becoming worse a person. I'm doing it for attention, it feels like a bad reason. My boyfriend doesn't agree with this, it makes him sad and I knew it would, it's a reason I'm doing it.

There's no blood, there are ridges in my skin. I do it slowly, pressing the knife down a little more each time. I found a mark today, left over from yesterday. I felt oddly proud.

I'm lashing out, I want attention, I want help. I'm getting measly ammounts of attention - "you shouldn't, please don't," doesn't cut it for me. I'm destroying myself mentally and physically (eating less, I'm already underweight), but nobody seems to care enough to realize. It makes me feel worse, angrier, but the only person I'm punishing for this is myself.
joneszy93
joneszy93
Usually when we SI (self injure) we do not do it for attention. We do it to express the pain that we cannot express any other way. Some may think that we do it for attention, but that's because they don't understand the meaning behind it.You're not pattering because you can't cut yourself, and you're not a bad person, just going through a rough time. It's good that you're recognizing that you're behaving differently. Why are you doing it to make your boyfriend sad? And for eating less, that is also a form of self injury. There's an eating disorder support group on here as well. Are you meeting with a therapist by any chance? I'm sorry that you're going trough a rough time right now.
LoveAlice
LoveAlice
You're not pathetic. And yeah most people don't do it for attention that's just something that people say. Do you know what's making you feel so badly that you want to cut?
butterfly000
butterfly000
well... if you want attention I would do something else... Self harm is not for getting attention... ones that do it for attention... well it makes most upset about the fact that they are just wanting to say cut for attention...
Try positive attention its far better then negative. You really dont want to become a cutter... It seems that your not breaking the skin which is good.. you have not been doing this for a while... Once you start it only gets worse.. to a point you run out of spots... most try and hide it.. so I guess you would not really run out of spots as you want to show it off... but point is at some point you will get addicted and when you want to stop you wont be able to and you will struggle... once you get to the point of stopping.... you will feel horrible about your scares... its not worth it! Trust me after years of cutting and then struggling to stop... now i have scares that I hate.. I wish I would have never have started cutting but I did and I struggled to get out of it... its not worth it... Try something else... you want attention.. why ? it seems like your bf cares as it makes him sad your doing this.. live life, enjoy it! you dont have to cover up you dont have to worry about what people will say... if you want to talk message me. I would rather hear that your not harming. its not a life you should want...