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sleep cutting

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does anyone else sleep cut. I just got out of hospital today and while i was there i was caught sleep cutting. I always knew that sometimes i would find 'extra' cuts and things, but i always thought i was just having a 'mind blank' which happens quite regularly (i phase out and then sdlowly come back to reality)

Just wondering how many others (if any) sleep cut or do other wierd stuff like it.
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i have never had anyone comform it for me, but i have woken up with more cuts in the morning than what i had previously, but i always put it down to general sleep walking as i have cut peoples' nails in there sleep, just hope i dont do this to others when im asleep lol
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dont cut but do know for sure i do other harm to self while sleeping.
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thanks guys. i always put it down to blankiong out but i guess i do sleep cut if i was caught doing it. read a post in another community where someone mentioned doing it too. Wierd. anywy, thanks for your input
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i use to do it but i stopped i but me blades sumwhere about half a hour before i went to sleep and i soon stopped
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I wake up with these huge bruises and sometimes I find scars that I have no idea how I got them.
I didn't even know that ppl sleep cut, but that could explain y I wake up black and blue
(unless someone is beating me in my sleep, but you'd think I'd notice)
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I dont sleep cut as such but i scratch my legs in my sleep which makes them bleed and is really annoying coz my legs look a mess and there is nothing i can do about it.
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when i get extremely stressed i do it. and usually when i cut knowingly, i do it in places that you can't see, but when i do it in my sleep, i usually do it on my arm, in plain sight, so i know it's from that.

casey
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When I'm sleeping, I move about alot, and I often wake up with bruises, but I haven't cut before, although I did in the boarding house once. there was a little metal thing which help bed labels which was sharp, and i was half asleep, not totally as i was aware of what i was doing but I couldn't controll it, and i cut down 1 of my wrists... other than that I haven't done that before...
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i only sleep cut once
all the other times i'd wake up with the blade in my hands
it's scary
i'd wake up and have no idea where i was or what i was doing with the blade in my hand
and everything would hurt...
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ive never cut while i was sleeping. but i think i black out and do it. like i remember cutting my arm. but idk how. its weird. and i always wake up with bruises on me all da time. and i have no idea how i get them. my brother always asks me if my ex is hitting me or something.
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wow i didnt really think there were so many of us that did SI in our unconscious state. I will try putting my knife away like was suggested might be hard though considering i sleep with it in my hand like a security blanket for a child.

But i will try. thanks again guys.
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I never did, but I was terrified I would. It was my biggest fear that i'd do things in my sleep, or just black out and lose my mind.
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lucky you that you get to sleep! I am up every hour!
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Yes ive actually on multiple times "sleep cut" i hate it because i used to cut normally and usually i sleep cut when ive had a terrible and close to heart dream. So i can completely understand where your coming from.
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Yeah i am another sleep cutter, a fair few times ive woke up with unexplainable cuts etc freaks me out
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