Posted by kid_A on July 2, 2001, at 10:54:25
In reply to cutting, posted by josiejo on June 30, 2001, at 18:25:43
Since I was younger, (am 30 now) I had turned to cutting as some form of release from feelings of intense despair. I have just started on meds not too long ago and actually had an instance of cutting just prior to seeing the pdoc.As for myself, I never looked at cutting as anything more than catharsis... It usually happened for me at some point when I was *extremely* upset and the only outlet for me was to perform this act... Now that I'm on meds I'll hopefully get away from being self-injurous and use a more effective method of treatment for the problems I have...
I've carved the words yes (scar still very readable), no, diagonal, horizontal, vertical slashes... glass, razor blades... etc... Before I saw my pdoc for the first time I smashed my head into my bathroom mirror and shatered it... later I used the glass to cut my right arm...
In the end I dont think that this is an acceptable mechanism for self-medication, even though it usually marks the end (for me at least) of any one particulary nasty bout of intensely bad feelings. I dont think this act is uncommon, nor is it as troublesome as it may seem, but it would be good to push the person involved in cutting toward a direction of meds/psych...
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