Help Is a blood sugar finger pricker a good and safe way to self harm (on a psych ward)

[Custos]

I'm on a psych ward, I want to safely and cleanly cut. I don't want to do major damage, but I also want to use something that is sharp enough to minimise the width of the cut (and so I don't have to hack at my skin for an hour with a blunt plastic knife). I have managed to steal a disposable finger pricker, would this be a good implement to use? Haven't broken it open yet but I am worried that the needle inside will be too small to hold and if I remember correctly as soon as it's used the needle retracts.



Any ideas? Any suggestions on what I could use, I did have some empty aerosol cans, but in a moment of sanity I gave them in. Just to be clear I don't want to do serious harm and don't want to use anything that has the risk of unintentional major injury (cutting arteries or nerves).



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[lionetta12]

I'm on a psych ward, I want to safely and cleanly cut. I don't want to do major damage, but I also want to use something that is sharp enough to minimise the width of the cut (and so I don't have to hack at my skin for an hour with a blunt plastic knife). I have managed to steal a disposable finger pricker, would this be a good implement to use? Haven't broken it open yet but I am worried that the needle inside will be too small to hold and if I remember correctly as soon as it's used the needle retracts.



Any ideas? Any suggestions on what I could use, I did have some empty aerosol cans, but in a moment of sanity I gave them in. Just to be clear I don't want to do serious harm and don't want to use anything that has the risk of unintentional major injury (cutting arteries or nerves).



Sorry if this is the wrong section.

I guess it sounds somewhat safe? Not too much damage that you can do with that. Just be careful if you are thinking of using the needle several times if you get it out of the device, don't want to get sepsis from a dirty needle so remember to clean it once you've used it. My mom said she got sepsis once from using a dirty needle for whatever reason, think she was self-harming, and she said it was very painful and that it sucked. She seems scared of needles now due to it.