Why is cutting bad

[deranged]

I relapsed after being clean for 21 days, I tried to stop because I'm supposed to. Cutting is bad, right? thats what people say but if it makes me feel better why is it bad, i cant reach past styro anyways so it's not a dangerously deep level. I just need to know if i should really put effort into stopping or if its useless.

 

[JordanF]

I don't think there is anything wrong with cutting if it is done safely and one doesn't become too obsessed with it. The only real arguments I've ever heard against it is that it can "lead to more dangerous actions, and you can become too reliant on it."

 

[Cloud Busting]

I self harmed for almost 15 years.

The problem is you don't learn to cope with your emotions. They come back even stronger than before, and that means you never learn to process them.

 

[Dying Knight]

Cutting is bad, right? thats what people say but if it makes me feel better why is it bad, i cant reach past styro anyways so it's not a dangerously deep level. I just need to know if i should really put effort into stopping or if its useless.

It's kinda a weird way of dealing with the stress, because there are alternative methods which are less harmful, such as meds or physical workouts.

 

[dogbreath]

after being clean for a while i relapsed yesterday,,,, My thought process was "Oh well i'm not hurting anyone else i'm just hurting myself! It's my body I can do what I want with it! No one can tell me what I can or can't do with my body its not like im gonna die!! " I did feel better after doing it, felt really good and happy but like,,, it was only temporary and tbh I think thats the only bad thing about it. All the feelings of happiness disappear so quickly and the only way to get it back is to do it again D: just seems like a lot of work.

 

[LikeAPendulum]

I relapsed after being clean for 21 days, I tried to stop because I'm supposed to. Cutting is bad, right? thats what people say but if it makes me feel better why is it bad, i cant reach past styro anyways so it's not a dangerously deep level. I just need to know if i should really put effort into stopping or if its useless.

For me, I find cutting to be useless. The few times I cut in my youth was more or less as a form of self-punishment for some fuckup I did.
In recent times, I sliced my forearm to extract some blood to write with like ink. That's probably the only practical use of cutting.

 

[ToniFoxGirl!!]

Idc what anyone says, if I want to cut, I should be allowed to. It's my body, my choice. I'm a personal trainer and still SH while on a consistent, and strict fitness regime and diet. Cutting feels good. It takes the edge off

 

[d3j3ct3dl0s3r05]

it can get pretty addictive but I live in a hotter climate where id definitely melt (and stand out) if I wore long sleeved garments all the time. risk of infection also sucked and that risk increased whenever I went deeper