I Enjoy Cutting Myself

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Have you intentionally cut yourself in the last 30 days? We invite you to share your experience by participating in a short online study. The purpose of this...

Hello I'm Olivia I am currently 15 years old, I'll be 16 this July.i got introduced to cutting about 5 years ago. I always knew what it was because I thought it was something interesting and it started off with cutting the top of my...

I like to be able to feel the knife as it slices my wrist, watching the blood trickle of my fingers, the sudden rush of pain. To me it's like ecstasy, it's my drug. Even just looking at the knife, sitting there, like it wants me to pick...

my name is jess. i'm 14 and i've been cutting for about a year now. i started in eigth grade when everything started going wrong. I have been dealing with depression for at least four years now. (i'm a freshman) i'm always sad. why...

When I was a freshman in high school was the first time u ever self harmed. It was when silky bands were popular well a guy really hurt me and I started snapping my skin with my sillyband an my wrists would welt up. Once my skin got...

Ive been cutting for years. i know its wrong and all that but to tell the truth i enjoy it. i do it not only for the sense of control but for the addrenaline rush, for the ache that lasts for days. its like a drug that leaves you with...

It started in 6th grade, a few shallow scratches, then a little blood, but as time moved on I got addicted to that lush feeling of the sharp blade sinking and biting into my warm flesh. The blood dripping, the open, stinging wound. I'm...

Im 14 years old and have been cutting for 9 months now. I first heard of cutting yourself from a friend, who showed me videos of it on youtube. A few months later I never dreamed that I woulde ver do it myself but I did and now I cant...

Hi my name is klanetta Im a mom of 5  and a wife. I have been going through a lot of things I have been abused as my dad as a child an a adult I was neglected by my mom. Nowe I be going through a lot of things in my marriage also I...

i guess my body is just looking for an excuse, to cut, to mutilate (in a sense)
this time it was different, i got a new, thinner, sharper razor.... slick and silver.
i teased my bare skin for few minutes, then the the cold steel bite...

A few years ago, I was the "it" girl at my school. I don't mean to sound vain but it's true. I was skinny, pretty, and popular. Then me and my mom went through a rough time and i started to eat. and eat. and eat. Suddenly, i went from 1...

She’s emo? You’d cut too, if you’ve been through what she has. She’s anorexic? You’d be too, if everyone called you fat everyday. She’s a w.hore? She made one mistake that cost her, her reputation. She’s a showoff? Her...