Thread: I'm a cutter

Sally. You are very sexy and you know it! You don't need to cut anymore. I now, and I am telling you this because I am a guy,you can now go out and know that guys are checking you out because you are sexy. If I were in your hospital as a patient, I would definitely start flirting with you

I don't think I was clear that I don't cut anymore. Past tense.
Sally, you won't quit until you really want to. Nobody can "make you" quit, short of tying your hands. Telling someone to "just quit" or pretending that a few words can make it happen is a joke.
However, you are dealing with your pain in an extremely unhealthy way and I promise that if you were to deal with it healthily, you would feel better about it and yourself, and really, isn't that what you're after with the cutting? Feeling better?
Don't shoot down solutions. Come up with some.

Little makes good points and is a good example to learn from that the cutting can stop and you can over come the urge to do so.

The first step you may want to take is to seek out a Behavior Therapist. They will help you take a maladaptive coping mechanism and turn it around into an adaptive coping mechanism and extingish this urge to cut yourself.

The great thing about behavior therapy is that is can be done in a short amount of time. It helps for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders. Hand washing, germ phobias, and cutting.

A great Therapist will move along at your speed if it takes 3 weeks, 6 weeks, 10 weeks for you to move in to a comfortable phase inwhich you no longer feel that urge to cut yourself to release pain and feel in control of that pain.

I never assumed a few words would ever change your mind about cutting yourself. I was only offering support and suggesting changes you could make in order to see yourself as a blossoming beautiful woman that you want to be.

I have never been a cutter but my neice and another young friend has been. My Neice use to cut her arms and my other young friend use to cut her legs. My young friend started after her father was killed in a horrific accident and it was a coping mechanism she used to release and control the pain. They have both recovered I am happy to say and I really hope you take action to do so as well.

You just have to learn to view it differently. Physiologically, cutting does NOT calm one down: it sends adrenaline into the system, which actually fires you up.
You have to want to quit. Until the moment you do, no person or thing will make you do it. Look inside yourself for how to be strong. It's okay to lean on others, but in the end, you are the cutter and it's your responsibility to yourself to stop.