I mean how the hell do you slit wrists? Kitchen knifes? School scissors?
I've just been thinking about it alot recently.
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I mean how the hell do you slit wrists? Kitchen knifes? School scissors?
I've just been thinking about it alot recently.
BEFORE I POST, I HAVE NEVER DONE IT AND NEVER WILL.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lozzoling
I see people in my school cutting themselfs with pencil sharpner blades.
I dont have anything against anyone who does it.. But i don't know why anyone would want to do it.. if anyone could explain that ;p?
There are many reason why people cut themself and different people use different things
Reasons for cutting:
Stress
depression
Cry for help
Being bullied
or cause u want to be labelled emo
Thinsg people use:
Pencil shaper blades <safeter than sissors
sissors <<< Not safe at all
craft knives <<<< so dangerous
Etc
You can self harm with basically anything that is sharp.. broken glass.. like paul (Barkseh) said pencil sharpners blades knifes.. scissors.. there are loads.
Also most people i know who has done it (One being myself) have not slit there actually wrists, but someone who may be very sucidle (sp?!) do so as if you cut at the right place you can die with blood loss...
Most reasons to do it is because people get bullied, stress, exam stress etc..
i have no idea :s
they probally use craft knifes from the technology block i gusse :s
Most people dont do it in school. but it is so dangerous as steven. said u get the right point of ur wrist and thats it u can die if u dont get help from the hospie
Eek i don't mean i wanted too,i was just curious in my innocentness x)
Ugh,pencil sharpener blades.
Yes pencil shaper blades, one of my mates spent ages getting out out so the person could cut their wrists arms etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Lozzoling
I am saying person as i do not want to sayif it is a he/she or why they were doing it i hope this is understanding
But its not me
Also you can get blood poision if you use a dirty blade which can lead onto many things.
I've been told to cure 'stress to;
:)
- Try and break some frozen ice cubes..
- Write it down
- Shout. < Don't work for me anyhow.
- Rubber bands, put them on your wrist and ping them on the inside of your wrists.
Lol rubber bands,ping,lol xD
simple pleasures
hmm steven never heard of them but they sound good
Yes Steven. they sound good!
Sadly my Dad used to work in the hostpital.
He has seen people using Lawn Mower Blades. The big long 42" Blades you put under your lawnmower. They start at the top and ZIP! To Cut it.
Thats disgusting...
It truely is
Slitting your wrists is just lame, if you do slit your wrists *cough* attention freak *cough* I suggest you buy a gun, put it to your head and pull the trigger, think off all the attention you could get from that, Wow!!
Then again you will be dead, but you deserve to be if you slit your wrists, fnx.
Go ahead flame me, if I cared I wouldn't of posted what I said above.
agreed +rep:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Placeee
So what if people do 'slit there wrists for attention? Maybe because they're craving it as everyone ignores them, maybe they want to get stuff off there mind? heard of Peer pressure? Heard of stress? i take it you havn't. =\Quote:
Originally Posted by Placeee
Thats horrible.. people generally self harm because their going through a traumatic part of their life where they can't handle things. Not everyone slits their wrists other people do it in less obvious places. I agree people do sometimes do it for attention but saying ever single self harmer does is out of order.Quote:
Originally Posted by Placeee
Agreed. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinkyy
Sorry, but how can slitting your wrists help you in any way.
http://assets.families.com/Encyclope...01_img0070.jpg
Yeah, It must help so much having cuts on your arms.
Wow and there was me thinking people who slit their wrists are morons.
this thread makes me cringe.
it's horrible that people do that to themselves >.<
As i said people dont always slit their wrists and do it in more hidden places. I agree there are some attention seekers and that picture above is sick it makes me wonder what sites you go on ;l But stereo typing every single self harmer as an attention seeker is out of order
Google images, what a disgusting site.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinkyy
Ok, sorry but it's my opinion, no one can change my opinion as i'm not going to change it to make self harmers feel good about themselfs.
Edit: You say the picture above is sick, but you're sticking up for people that do that to their arms.
i'm sticking up for the people that do it for a real reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by Placeee
The ******* that think the only way to get rid of stress is to cut their wrists?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kinkyy
Umm, no.
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Woo.. a very .. interesting thread.
1. I have selfharm and i dont do it for attetion
2. People who selfharm, 2/3 have a real reason
3. The other third do it for attetion to be cool/whatever
4. Cutting yourself/burning/harming yourself, makes you focus on the outside pain instead of the inside
5. Some people look at it by when they cut, their bleeding the pain out
6. Not that everyone isnt entilted to their own opinion, but i think you saying go take a gun and shoot themselfs whoever said that, has obviously never had a friend with selfharm who has a real reason to do it.
Selfharming is soemthing that should be encourage dot be stoppe,d not just saying that the people who do it are sick morons. I have recently become alot happier than I used to be, and would now xconsider myself a very happy person, and I do not see, now, for a reaosn to self harm, but when I was at my unhappiest I seriously considered, and wouldn't blame anyone who does it, I would just encourage them to stop, because self ahrming doesn;t seem to be attention seeking in 80% of the people I've seen do it, in fatc they seem to be trying to hide it as much as possible. -rep to placee, for not seeing others' point of view. Poeple who do self harm want to be happuir, and believe that self harming makesthem feel better about themselves, and thye are not all attnetion seeking weridos, so think about other peoples' points of view before you say anything. Ok, maybe self haring doesn't help, but it's a way out for some people, and they should have people trying to make them feel better at themselves not labelling them attention seeking or stupid.
Is it because you want to slit your wrists?
Want? No.. some people do it for too long and get addicted to it.
Pencil sharpener blade
That picture that Placeee posted actually shows quite well how "self harm" is done. Note how the cuts are on the tops of the arms, where you don't have a big ol' vein popping out and where it isn't going to do much harm at all. A lot of people I know have self harmed in the past in this way (tops of arms), and they were mostly little goth kids who did it not to look cool, but because they'd been told that self harm is the best way to sort out your problems whenever you feel a bit down. Attention, probably. Fashion, not in most cases. It's sad that people are opened up to these things, but that's life. I'll admit, I did it once or twice also, but I realised it didn't help at all, and learned to cope with my problems without hurting myself or anyone else.
What I think is the worst thing about self harm is that it's seen as something done by idiots who want to look cool, or for attention, which distracts peoples' care from those who really are depressed and need it. You aren't depressed just because you're not happy. People who suffer from true depression (which is a brain disorder, not a mood) are looked down upon because of the vast number of teens who claim to have it, which makes them feel even worse and means that people aren't as keen to help them. Someone said about the lawn mower blade incident, that's obviously somone who is truly depressed, a rash action from someone so desperate and unhappy that they truly want to die, and yes it is attention seeking, but these people do need the attention. Spending half an hour trying to break a blade out of a sharpener before carefully slicing neat lines into the top of your arm is not the same, and I personally think that goths and other people who take the attention away from those who need it most need a kick from a steel toe cap to the head.
alot of people take blades out of pencil sharpeners and use that.
anything with an edge, i used to. sharpener blades, penknife .. also the point on badges is good for chicken scratchs but people say hurting themselves makes them feel better... trust me.. it really doesn't. i've been there.. done it... and got blood on the t-shirt.
just go to look beyond it ;) - anyone wants to talk just pm me.. i'm meant to be revising but what the hoo :)
urgh very disgusting pencil sharpner blade and scissors
Heres my point of view on the whole situation.
If you try to kill yourself with a blade and it didn't work, then people found out about it, wouldn't that make your life a lot more stressfull.
If you tried shooting yourself you could hit a part of your brain that would paralyze you for teh rest of your life.
If you jumped off something you could become crypled or paralyzed for teh rest of your life.
Theres no real way to kill yourself without a good chance of staying alive and damaging yourself ..hanging yourself or drowning yourself another way to damage your brain from air loss.
My suggestion to you folks is to just suck it up and live through whats happening to you. Theres always that chance things might change;)
-Anotherkid3
ok this is a good time to admit i have done it through depression many times though i am complete opposite of a goth anyways ur finger nail works suprisingly wel but usually best way is a compass kitchen knife or fro wusses a pencil sharpning blade wen dey do dat usually for atention!
Um.. sharpener blades arnt even painful.. you get alotta blood, but not much pain, since ive done that 2 nights back, razor blades (with 2-4 blades) sometimes you get alot of pain, and not so much blood, but sometimes other way round, or same amount. But, if your asking how to slit your wrists, like methods, thats kinda attetion seeking since you want people to know you wanna do it.. but selfharm isnt attetion seeking if you like.
-Do it in a secret place
-Cover your cuts up
- Dont tell anyone before/after
You know.. being secretive.. but if you walk around with your sleeves up and make the cuts stand out, thats attetion seeking, or if your all like too your friends, 'Oh look at my cuts arnt they just so cool!' Thats def attetion seeking.. you dont HAVE to be diognosed with depression to be depressed, sometimes your just depressed because its 'teenage years', and all puberty all that stuff, but sometimes its true depression which carries on throughout life, until you get treated of course. So basically if you wanna have scars on your arms and cuts, and probably a low blood count heres what to use to cut:
Razors, sharpener blades, penknife, knife, scissors, pins, your finger nails like majestic said, scapel (the things they use in hospitals, goodluck finding one) and anything basically sharp, like the edge of a piece of paper, a clip.. anything sharp really.
Yes it is. Regardless of the fact that you aren't showing/telling people, there's a reason that you're doing it, and maybe you don't want people to see because you're afraid of what their reactions might be, but self harm is a cry for help in all cases (even just with those who do it to show off, they need help too). Also I find it funny how you basically just called yourself an attention seeker.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkSarah
Well no, it doesn't have to be diagnosed, but it's pretty easy to tell if you have true depression or not, because you don't need reasons to feel bad, you just do. Depression as a mood is no excuse for anything in my opinion, get on with it. If you have depression in the real form (or think you might) you should seek a doctor's advice.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkSarah
...And here ends the "How To Self Harm" manual, by A. N. Idiot.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarkSarah
Big healthy dollop of rep coming your way. Lovin every word of it. And darksarah dudette, i suggest you get psychiatric help. If you really love pain, give yourself cramp in your foot (by bending your toes too much). I sometimes do that when i bored in bed, very amusing until it starts to really kane, in which case you bend your toes backwards slightly and it stops. Very good way to kill time. Or you could go play a game or go out, thats a good way to kill time too. If you dont like your arms that much, get rid of them, dont try to graffiti on them with sharp objects.Quote:
Originally Posted by FlyingJesus
Back to the quote, loving the point about true depression and attention seekers. I cant really add any more because it sums it up perfectly. And normally i would spit on you for having done it to yourself in the first place, but I understand you somewhat (i could easily have done the same thing if i didnt have more self control when my parents split up) and i admire that you have learned that its pointless, good for you. (Btw, try the cramp thing, it is rather fun. Ive found jumping into a river quickly produces the same effect, although its much harder to get rid of and when youre trying to right a boat it can be irritating :p)