Can cutting your wrist become addicting

Why am i addicted to cutting my wrist?

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Honestly, I don’t know, but I do know that cutters eventually get addicted to cutting and can’t stop and need professional help. Please get professional help, I doubt anyone on here is a professional.

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Effects of cutting your wrist?

Q: Once I read an article about people who cut their wrists, and it said the instant effects that this brings, but I don’t quite remember what this was. But I think it was about some hormones, perhaps adrenaline, being released and this would cause either an euphoric moment or that the adrenaline would make you feel neither physical nor psychological pain at the moment, but the thing is that it talked about how it could become addicting. Does anyone know where I can find either some articles or scientific papers about this?

A: You’re right, there doesn’t seem to be much information out there on this subject at all. I did a web-search for you and all I could come up with was the link I’ve provided for you below:

Help with wrist cutting…??

Q: My best friend and I cut our wrists.Alexis,one of my friends,doesn’t even know how many times she has cut.I don’t know if she really does.But I really believe Alexis.She says she has become addicted.I have only done it once,and when I feel even one bit of sadness,I immediatally think of running into the bathroom,and grabbing my razor to cut myself.No one knows except my best friends,and a few people on the internet..Any advice for Alexis and I to stop?I also have began to feel a fondness of the color black,and I always get upset easily…Help!When I tell my cousin I’m emo,she says,”No you’re not.Emos cut themselves.”I tried to tell her I did cut,but my mother came in as I was about to tell her.Alexis was emo long before me,and I believe I became emo helping her overcome it..Please help me and Alexis..Give me tips,and your stories..I don’t want to go to therapy or anything…I want to know how to help myself,and to help my friend…..

A: Im sorry, I hate the word EMO. it is a stupid stereotype. Dont listen to you cousin. Its fine and normal that you like the color black, and you get upset easily. The fact that you have tried cutting is bad. http://www.psyke.org/pictures/a/alien/index.html ….Thats what cutting will end up doing to you. And it will leave you some horrific scars you will never be able to cover up. .Before you make that cut again remember:You will enjoy this.You will find the blood and pain release addictive.Even though you think you can make a few tiny cuts that aren’t deep,And will heal easily …They will get deeper.They will scar.They will sometimes take months to heal.And years for the scars to fade.If you think you can limit the cutting to one area of your body,Think again…It will spread when you run out of skin.Be prepared to withdraw from others and live in a constant state of shame.Even if you are the most honest person ever to live ….You will find yourself lying to the people you love.You will jerk back from your friends when they touch you as if their hands were dipped in poison.You will be terrified that they will feel something under the clothof your shirt, or because it just plain hurts so much to be touched.Be prepared to get so out of control you fear your next cut because you don’t know how bad it will be.Just wait for 10 cuts to turn into 100….Be prepared for yourentire life to revolve around thinking about cutting ..cutting andcovering up cutting.And just wait till that first time you cut “too deep.”And you freak out because the blood won’t stop…And you are gasping….And you feel yourself shaking all over.You are having a panic attack and you are terrified but you can’ttell anyone.So you sit there alone…Praying it will be ok swearing you’ll never let it go this faragain…But you will, and further.Don’t worry, you will learn how to take care of your cuts so thatyou can go deeper and deeper and avoid the ER.And the better you get at treating your cuts the deeper they get.You will lie to yourself and justify it when you find youselfspending 20, 30 or 50 dollars every time you go the pharmacy.You will feel the flutter of your heartbeat everytime you go to thecounter to ring up your order.Butterfly strips…3 or four different kinds of dressings…Betadine….Antibiotic cream..Medical tape..Scar reducers…..You will tap your foot impatiently hoping the line will just moveand no one will stare at you or wonder why you need all these things.And at the same time secretly hope someone will notice…Someone who is standing in line with an armful of the samesupplies…Someone who understands but of course that never happens.Medical supplies won’t be the only thing you spend all your money on.Be prepared to buy a new wardrobe…Longsleeve shirts in summer colors, bracelets, wristbands, boots… gloves.. the list goes on and on.You will start looking at everyone in a different way…Scanning their bodies for any signs of SI…Just hoping that you might meet someone like you so you don’t feel so terribly alone.You wont even think about it ..As your eyes scan their wrists + arms…Hoping just hoping they will be like you….But they are not.You will see their clean arms and feel terribly ashamed and alone.You will start doing a lot of things alone.You will always have to wash your laundry in private so know one sees the blood stains on your clothes and towels.You will always be cleaning up the blood..Scrubbing your bathroom floor…Wiping the blood of your keyboard…You won’t be able to make it through a day without cutting….Next thing you know you are in a public bathroom somewhere breaking open a scab with a sewing needle that you keep in your wallet for emergencies.When you get really desperate anything will be a cuttingtool …scissors…a car key…a needle … a paperclip..even a pen.Doesn’t matter what it is if you need to cut bad enough you will find something.Say goodbye to things you took for granted.Like wearing shorts or sandals…pedicures…sleeveless tops. A normal summer day at the beach or in a swimming pool will become a far off memory for you.Get ready to itch.Because you will itch and itch …”so much you will look like youhave fleas or a skin disease.”You will become an expert on your body as you destroy it carefully..You will dream about cutting…you will dream about being exposed.It will haunt you day and night and take over your life. You willwish you never made that first cut because while you absolutely hate cutting…At the same time, you love it and can’t live with out it…Think about what effect your action will have on you. Trust me, its just not worth it. You will feel SO alone, I can’t begin to explain…think about it…

Wrist Cutting Whats Up With That?

Q: So Cutting myself for a couple of years now and Its like It gets deeper every-time and im becoming addicted to it, sometimes i like to lick the blood or sometimes its like i completely butcher my arm. I have severe depression already im so messed up that i cant go to school, i stay up until 4Am most nights or even later then sleep until 5PM. If any of you are like this could you please give me some suggestions? And P.S. Does anyone listen to any music while doing it? I tend to listen to 30seconds to mars, Green day, Nine inch nails.Thanks dude but im a pagan. And just an added note when i cut sometimes i get angry if i dont cut enough, or there isnt any blood why is that?

A: I know how you feel. Self-harm can be/is an addiction and should be treated as such. I listen to music too actually, Marilyn Manson (Coma White) or something by Smashing Pumpkins.My suggestions are to know the reasons why you cut for one, and work on fixing them. But there is one blinking red light in the mix: You will only stop if you have the WILL to do so. Nothing and no one can making you stop cutting but yourself, not counselors, not psychs or anything else.So see if you’re ready to make that commitment. Tell yourself every day that you are not going to hurt yourself, and try to do that with all your might. Don’t think you will stop without a bit of a struggle.If not, then you may just continue cutting. But the day may come when you decide you don’t want to cut anymore, and then hopefully you’ll never need to self-harm again.