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I met someone recently who does this. Said she used to take depression meds as well. Thoughts? Not judging btw. If I had to guess I would say that inflicting pain on the outside distracts attention from pain felt on the inside.
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To get to the creamy center
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KiwiTerraRizing posted...

To get to the creamy center

hahaha
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Variety of reasons depending on the individual, but what you said is one of them, yes. Just a really unhealthy form of coping.
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Its kinda like physical pain from one part of the body distracts from another.

But yeah, cutting can be for distraction and sometimes for attention.

I never cut myself per se but I have done a lot of self harm. Slapped myself, hit my head on stuff, even punched myself a few times.

At least for me, it's got nothing to do with anything like that. That's too logical. It's more an expression of severe self-loathing.
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for relief

I remember when cutting was actually sorta trendy in the 2000's because of the emo scence. Pretty fucked up looking back
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does it really work?
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Sting posted...

does it really work?

sort of yeah. its an addiction tho

Sting posted...

does it really work?

Aye
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When you are in pain the brain basically drugs you to make it more tolerable
Basically they are just really edgy junkies
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yusiko posted...

When you are in pain the brain basically drugs you to make it more tolerable
Basically they are just really edgy junkies

That's def a reason. The few times I seriously self harmed was for the natural high.

Regardless, there's no one uniform reason. Some want attention, some are "taking back" their bodies, some are basically drug addicts, some legitimately hate their bodies... It's all on the individual.
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sometimes it feels like control when you feel like you have no control in your life

catboy0_0 posted...

sometimes it feels like control when you feel like you have no control in your life

I can second this too.
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When you haven't been there it's like "why would anyone do that" then you get to that point and you go "oh. darn this sucks"

i have done it before. for me it was something strong to focus on to help ignore the horrible feelings i had in my head. a really strong visceral type of distraction basically.

Self-loathing.
I never cut myself, but I used to have a habit of digging my nails into my arm and justifying it to myself as a way to keep myself awake during the day because I had trouble sleeping at night.
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Ah ok, never understood it so was just curious. I was a clinically depressed teen but never did it. I just ate Dove chocolates and listened to Savage Garden while playing video games. Lol
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