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 talked with a friend earlier that has an eating disorder and cuts and burns. I have never discussed this with others , I guess because I havent been actively cutting and burning in a while.Are there a lot of people that cut burn and have eating disorders, and do you think that they are related?Oh yeah and how are they related.Are there other things for people who stop cutting and burning that are common for them to fall into.
Thanks for any info
Thanks for any info
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Hi well am one of those persons I have an eating disorder and cut and burn myself well I hurt however I can. For me they both do have something to do with each other when I try to stop my eating disorder I need it to put that energy in something else and is when I started cutting and hurting myself, it help me cope with the need of controlling something of my life. Then ofcourse I had a lot of setbacks with my eating disorder and just being doing both now. For me is just a way of coping and dealing with things. I don't know if they are related to each other or not I know persons that just cut and hurt themselves without an eating disorder.so I probably didn't help with your question at all, hope you get better answers
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I only cut,but I know alot of people that Cut,burn and have ED's,it is just more forms of self punishment.Although I've never been told I have an ED,I do struggle with food,bit like a Yo Yo,all or nothing.
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me too, guilty. im one of those people too. bullimia and self injury. i guess it just all ties intogether. its all about self destruction. the more ways we can bring ourselves down the better. the cutting came first because of the build up of guilt and hatred i had fo myself. the eating disorder came after when i realised that the mirror was a powereful weapon that i would later come to destroy myself with. i think at the end of the day the issues we all have are a refletion of the way we feel about our selves. if we really hate ourselves we are going to punish our body, mind and soul- every chance we get.
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I dont burn, But i think i have an eating disorder and i do scrap.(I dont cut.. i tear) To me it is all apart of my depression, some folks dont eat as much as they should, and those like me eat too much of the bad things and not enough to none of the good stuff We start to hate our bodies, then ourselves for letting it get his bad, And the pain builds up within us and we have to find a way to stop the mental pain so we cut or scrap or burn.
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well i am a cutter and have a eating disorder, i dont burn. i think these are all related to my bp and stress, if i get stressed the mere sight of food makes me sick! i havent cut in over a year, i switched to tatoos cause my doc cant hospitalize me for getting a tat! i can go days without eating or just eating a few crackers, i live off coffee, pepsi, crackers and corn dogs. what a diet huh. are you on meds? talking to a therapist really helps me with my stress, im going through trama therapy right now and its working. hope thing get better for you and im here if you need someone to talk to! (((hugs)))
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