I Self-harm Stories of Experiences (Page 8)

This is my second winter to go through self harming. I started last winter and never cut deeply. I had the odd scar on my leg. It was easy to give them a simple excuse like "I fell".
During the summer I cut my hip. No one ever saw it...

my triggers have got so bad. i now cut arms legs and chest so that they are 5mm deep and 6-8mm wide and i still refuse stitches, but i usually cut at night so by morn its to late to stitch as it started to scab and coagulate. is this...

Lately everything triggers my need to cut. my mood, my ex, my parents life in general, I am cutting more now than I ever have. I dont even need a trigger anymore I feel the urge all day its all I think about. I feel like I am going...

I can feel it. It's deep in the pit of my stomach. The acid churns and pops and the muscles ache.

My chest aches and becomes tight. It's hard for me to take a deep breath. The muscles in my throat constrict and the air catches.

My...

I started cutting in high school. I was miss popular in middle school then I went to HS and I was my brother lil sis thats how everyone saw me, I was a cheer leader in the choir and on the student council, I was still kinda popular, I...

Why do i cut?Well i cut for two reasons one its less serious than suicide at least i believe so.Two it gives me something to focus other than my own thoughts.i dont know when i started but i was a teenager at the time.I did cutting back...

I just joined the group and as of now it's been about 2 weeks since I've last cut and I'm wanting to badly today but I might make it through the day. Last time it was 10 pretty big cuts on both thighs but lately I've started wearing...

I take the cigarette in my hand.
As I'm listening to my favorite band.
I plunge it into my skin.
I feel the burn from within.
Tears run down my face.
My heart begins to race.
I like to hurt myself.
I think I'm going to hell.

The longest I've gone without self harm since I started is six months. Now I'm at five and I'm excited to break my record and keep going :3
If anyone needs advice I may be able to help.
Stay strong everyone. :)

i did a small cut not even enough to bleed, but now i just want to cut even more. :( can someone talk to me?

I need to cut tonight.
My razor is absolutely terrible isn't sharp enough and etc. so I'm trying a knife. I gotta admit I really want to use the knife but I'm scared.
I just need to god a good enough knife that won't cut to deep.
So...

Said I wouldn't cut again.. Told Joe.. and Paul I wouldn't.. I did.
I cut..
Tonight I cut.. Idk how many I can't even really count.. The razor is terrible worse than my old one tht I threw out so it doesn't cut deep or good so I'm fine...

I used to cut and I was depressed and suicidal. It is a LONG story! but if anyone ever needs help or just wants to talk, please let me know:)

I started self harming several weeks ago when my mother destroyed my dream of being a professional dancer. I told her I was an artist, and she just laughed at me. She expected of me something like Law School or Med. But I can't, it...

I'm feeling so much pain and abandonment from those around me. It's like the blood is a different kind of tears. It's not about the pain for me. Something about seeing the blood calms me down. I love the feeling of the blood running...

I'm 16 years old and i started cutting myself at the top of my right thigh in the summer holidays of 2012, so not that long ago, 3 and a half months? god it feels like longer...i had been down for a while about many things in my life...

I want to know how to stop. My cutting is ruining my life and I get that now. But every time I try to quit I end up cutting again. It's like I'm obsessed with it! If I'm not cutting then I have to read about it or I can just spend hours...

i started cutting when i was 12 and depressed was abused regularly by my older sisters teenage friends when i was 8 till then they said they wanted to toughen me up and wanted me to be thugs like them. it did make me have a huge...

Imagine this. Dad cheats on mom. Divorce. Marrage, dad and step mom. Marrage, mom and step dad. Finally happy. Sixth grade come, you live with your dad and step mom. You just got through a horrible elementary school life and are finally...

I lost a lot of respect for Dara O'Brian tonight. He did a piece on surfing, and described how the coins on the surfboard cut and bruised his legs up. Then he said 'I looked like some weird emo chick.' I found that awful. Like my...