wrist cutting

[okkkk]

has it ever worked? doing it longways down the arm?
what about doing it in conjuntion with an overdose? Just to lessen the chance that you dont wake up?

 

[BPD_LE]

It works if you do it right, you'll bleed out. Depends on how deep you go. If you can reach the arteries it will be quicker, if you only hit the veins above, it will take ages. Doing it in a warm bath will help stop clotting and increase blood flow. And definitely do it longways!

 

[Stan]

You can definitely die from bleeding out, take a lot of asprin thins the blood and perhaps helps stop the clotting. If you hit something like the femoral artery there's a better chance. not sure if its peaceful though as I don't know what the discomfort factor is

 

[BPD_LE]

You can definitely die from bleeding out, take a lot of asprin thins the blood and perhaps helps stop the clotting.

Yeah aspirin is good and drinking alcohol, that thins the blood too.

 

[k75]

Pain makes it difficult to get as deep as you need to, but some people are that determined.

The main thing to keep in mind if you're going to try that is you're also at high risk for severing nerves and tendons and causing damage that can't be repaired, just in case of failure. So you run the risk of destroying your ability to control your wrists and hands and stuff.

 

[Scars-And-Ink]

If you get interrupted, anyone can stop the bleeding with a makeshift tourniquet. You'd end up doing quite a bit of damage to nerves and tendons as well. If you're interrupted quickly enough they may be able to repair some of that damage, but not all of it. It technically is possible to die by cutting alone but it really only has like a 6% chance of fatality if I'm remembering correctly. Then again, there's probably people that tried it, and failed, that never even made it into those kinds of statistics so it may even be lower than that.

The pain is also a factor that a lot of people can't get past unless you're a long-term self-harmer.

But if you're really set on it, I recommend you do quite a bit of research on where to cut on the forearm/arm. I personally wouldn't want to have to keep digging around to locate the arteries. It'd probably also be better to hit the Brachial Artery in the arm over the Ulnar or Radial in the wrist but that's just my personal opinion and I, again, recommend more research into this method. Or even look into Blood-Letting?

As for the combo of overdosing with cutting. It depends on what you use.

Non-prescription/ OTC drug overdose alone only has an exceptionally low rate of fatality and it's not even usually the initial overdose that kills you, but the Liver or Kidney damage as a result of said overdose.

Prescription drugs also has a high chance of failure unless you really research it. I almost died after an overdose on Lithium-Carb because there's such a low threshold from therapeutic dosages to toxic doses- I was unfortunately found in time and spent eight absolutely miserable days in the ICU before I was carted off to the psych ward. I believe, if I'm remembering it right, I took roughly 350 pills of 300mgs of Lithium Carbonate- I can't remember if it was extended release or not as it's been a few years now.

So death by cutting with an overdose is technically possible but there's still a high risk of survival. Again, more research would need to be done on this if you're dead set on it as a method.

I hope this helps you some and if anything doesn't make sense, please feel free to ask me, or anyone else, questions. It's currently extremely late here, or early, and I'm rather sleep deprived.

 

[MercuryAce]

Death by exsanguination is VERY painful, requires a huge amount of willpower to cut deep enough and unless you hit a major artery like the femoral (which requires cutting through layers of muscle and nerves) takes a long time.

TV and books make this method seem far easier and peaceful than it actually is. I'd only pick it if absolutely nothing else is available to you, it's a lousy way to go.

 

[hopelessandbroken]

It will hurt alot and many people don't succeed by this method but yeah it's possible.

 

[Fragile]

i tried this a long time ago, there is a reason why this method has such low success rate and i'ts because everything about it triggers your survival instinct.

seeing blood, having the courage to cut deep enough, passing out VERY slowly and enduring cutting pain are just some of the many things that can make you stop halfway.

i know this method can be successful with the right tools, place and maybe drugs, but in the end you should probably look into better methods, this one is just very unreliable and you'll only get a forced hospitalization and ugly scars after it.

 

[Rachel74]

I have tried this method and I wasn't successful at all. I've self harmed for years so thought I'd be ok. In the end I called an ambulance as the pain was terrible. I now have stitches on my wrists. Definitely not the way to CTB.

 

[justanotherday]

I have tried this method and I wasn't successful at all. I've self harmed for years so thought I'd be ok. In the end I called an ambulance as the pain was terrible. I now have stitches on my wrists. Definitely not the way to CTB.

Sorry that happened to you. I am glad you told us that, because I was thinking about this method and can now rule it out.