Wrist-Slitting...

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I've always wondered where the tendency to harm the wrists as opposed to another area of the body came from. I realise self harm is not contained to wrist slitting but it seems that wrist slitting has become synonymous with self harm. To be honest, I think it is attention seeking and imitation, whereas the people truly in need of help have an altogether different manifestation of symptoms and method of self harm.

What was your method of suicide last time if you don't mind me asking?

i've always wondered (and i don't know if this is insensitive to ask considering you're asking for advice, but if it is then sorry), but what do people actually achieve from wrist-slitting? like doesn't the pain (whilst doing it and then the days after whilst the cuts heal) ever deter from slitting? or is feeling the pain part of it?

i've always wondered the same thing. people say it takes away emotional pain and they feel a sense of relief but i'm not so sure. it's imitation like wig44 said, at school everyone did it but never near the veins or where it would hurt. i know of one person who did it so close and deep that she had to go to hospital and surprise, surprise she never tried that again. i mean, it's not a built in thing that you have in your mind to do when you want to relieve yourself from pain, it's just what you see others do whether in school or tv etc. it never ever made me feel better about myself, i have a permanent mark where i'd go over and over the same spot and i'm ashamed to look at it because i know it was a stupid, childish, attention seeking thing.

it's not a bad thing to want help or attention but there are better ways to do it such as talking to someone privately or putting all your emotion and energy in to something else. like someone suggested find something you enjoy, try exercising, do things for other people rather than sitting feeling sorry for yourself. think of the future and starting changing everything now.

what i find with people who truly want to commit suicide - they just do it. they make up their mind and nothing stops that. if you tell people you're thinking of it or ask for help then you want them to help you, you don't want to die. almost everyone i know that has committed suicide or has seriously tried to have been shocking because you never expect it. you will get over it, your situation is only temporary. it's probably not that bad. look at your life and be grateful. hate the way you are? change it. yes, it's that easy.

i have to agree with others; you're probably attention seeking. "Is there anyway someone can convince that I'm not an absolute **** and should love myself? :/ (not in a romantic way tho. -_-)" get a grip. suicide is serious and not something to use so lightly just to get someone to boost your ego. go do something worthy of praise instead but don't expect gratitude. i have absolutely no patience for attention seekers who do this at all, i almost lost my best friend to suicide and i think about suicide every day - some days more than others but i would never do it. i'm too much of a coward and know i can do better. i don't think you truly know what it feels like to have hit rock bottom. if you think hating yourself is a good enough reason to commit suicide then you will never get through life. change yourself, change your attitude. i'm sorry if this is harsh but get real, life isn't going to be easy but you can change the way you see it and try to at least make life better for other people. if it's really that bad (which i don't believe or you'd just do it) then please go speak to someone but if you can't help yourself, no-one can.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I think often the 'teenage mindset' of being a victim makes it worse, so if you are feeling down (as all human beings often do) with this culture we have around 'youth', many start feeling sorry for themselves and its a self-defeating cycle. I think thats perhaps why we never had this strange culture only a few decades ago, whereas now many teenagers feel they are the most trodden-on group ever to exist.

It certainly doesn't help when teenagers are all treated like glass in that they are going to break any moment.