
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.

deleted_user
I was just wondering if anyone else had a method to their SI? For instance, I always make three marks when I cut...like III...I'm not sure why, I just do. It's like a sense of completion or something.

wolfrkm18
I go on how I feel, If I am really mad and depressed then I do 4 cuts. If I am just mad at something I do 1. Just varies between how I feel. Sometimes more sometimes less.

deleted_user
I usually cut when I am upset - either angry or am trying to punish myself. I usually am not thinking to clearly, so I just cut impulsively. I use to be fine with 1 light cut... barely drawing blood... just needed to see that little bit of blood...lately it's getting worse & worse... even if I go back to hitting & trying to bruise myself, it's not the same... it doesn't help as much. Only hitting that helps now if I take a metal bar & hit myself in the head.

deleted_user
I do it when I'm upset/ having bad feelings etc... sometimes I put a band around my arm so the blood pooled and cut my wrists, other times I cut the tip of my fingers because it is easy to get a lot of blood in a small cut

deleted_user
i do hundreds on smaller cuts most of the time, i have counted a total of 400 cuts on my body at once before. usually i feel like i'm done when 1. i can actually feel the pain, and 2. when i have sufficiently covered the area where i was cutting. i can't just stop at 3 or 4, i can't even feel it yet by then.

deleted_user
I don't really have an amount, it's sort of however much I happen to feel I need. I always sit the same though, and I almost always use a paring knife, because it gives me the kind of cut I like best. I don't think I've ever done less than twenty cuts in a session. They're also always in straight rows of cuts.
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