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Ive seen cut marks on my best friends. please don't. its not only painful to you, but painful to everyone else as well. please don't. I wont help and im sure lots of people really care about you
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I've been there,I used to cut myself and to write on my arm..
And I want you to know that there are ways to bear pain,if you just tell...don't keep secrets like those from the people that care about you.. \and you have the streanght in you to stop.I did,and I have a psycosomatic and an eating disorder.But I'm out.
And if I am out, so can you.Just make the decision.I can say that a psycologist can really help <:
Even though it's painful to tell to your parents...I did.And I'm glad that now I have help and support. 
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okay yes, stop it, but...
where's the blood in that?
People usually cut because of the effect it causes.
Why do you burn your ankle, where's the blood?
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Some people cut for the pleasure in the pain, or some cut because pain makes them feel alive, or even because that the only thing to cause an emotional reaction, most don't actually cut to die. "Cutters" usually don't want to die. Most just want to feel close or take their anger and pain out on something.
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Nope. I could never burn myself, I hate the smell of burning flesh. But I do ... hurt myself. Just every so often when I need to remind myself I'm alive. Or if I need to cry. I feel for the ST definitely. I find ways other than cutting, because every one assumes cutting means you want to die, when I, and perhaps the ST, want something entirely different. I want to live. I want to know I exist. It's a pretty screwed up mentality, but people don't look down on Masochists, so I don't see why I'm any different. Though the ST doesn't sound like s/he likes burning, so it could be a problem for them.
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one more time... cutting yourself makes you a masochist, right?
and yes, they do look strangely at masochists.
still I don't get that cutting=living thing. It may be only suitable for you. I don't get it... but I guess it's like... pyromaniacs? maybe something only they can understand?
(I'm kind of a pyro, so I wrote that, but I can't come up with any other example......)
so how does that one work? it's like it's something so traumatizing that you like get scared and thus recognize you're alive? and if st doesn't cut anymore, but burns... then it means that cutting isn't enough? ahhh confusing....
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Ah, in my circle of friends and all the people I associate with don't look strangely on masochists, and I've never brought the subject up with any one else. But, yes, I suppose cutting does make you masochistic, but while some do it and love the pain, others hate the pain, but it makes them feel alive.
Sometimes when you're really depressed you become numb, you don't feel emotion, or anything. The only thing that registers is touch, and normal touch doesn't have the same effect, so say a person is given a hug. That hug can give them a hollow feeling inside, the only feeling they can feel, and it just intensifies. But a painful touch causes a different reaction. It's all about chemistry and biology, not that many cutters think of it that way. When your body is in pain automatically adrenaline is shot out and goes to the heart, while millions of cells rush to close the wound. That. That is what some people do it for. Adrenaline gets the heart beating, you can feel it in your chest. You feel alive. So, yeah, you can traumatize yourself and trick your body into forcing adrenaline into your heart.
It may not be that cutting isn't enough anymore, it could be that the ST's friends look for the cuts and they still need to feel alive so they resort to other things. Things they wouldn't normally look for. Most people think you only self harm on your wrists, when really only beginners or people who haven't been caught do it there. Eventually most people either stop cutting, or move to parts that are easier to hide.
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ok, so it took me a while, but I finally think I get it... so maybe it isn't st's friends looking for the cuts, but the cuts not being enough anymore... because if it were the cuts, st would have moved to parts where hiding them is easier...?
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Yes! (Sorry it took so long to respond)
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What ever happened to good old fashioned stress relief... breaking things.
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I burn myself too... I was forced to get a skin graft after a really bad incident with a hairstraightener
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I have a burn scar, but not by choice.
If you feel like you have to hurt yourself, please talk to someone. Get help.
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I feel like you got this idea from watch Adam on Degrassi. Please stop hurting yourself. It's not worth it.
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Cutting scares me. Burning doesn't sound much better.
I'm here if you want to talk... well, so are a lot of other people.
But still, you now have me as an option.
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Burning isn't any better than cutting. Harm is harm. Please get help, ST.
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Go back to cutting! It's a lot more safer, and a lot less shitty then burning.
Those hurt, like hell.
Or should I be the good person and just tell you to stop doing it in general?-No. Because 1: It's not like you'd listen anyway,
And 2: Because I do the same thing. So just go back to cutting, It's 10 times better.
plus burns are harder to take care of...And they hurt more.
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ST, I had a friend in that situation. (Not that method, but self-harm situation) If you ever need an ear, please just note me. I'll always be here.
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I've never heard of that method, it sounds worse than cutting. I hope you can find the strength to quit, ST.
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