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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JayC" data-source="post: 310192" data-attributes="member: 36373">Think this argument speaks for itself.. You are asking if making your body bleed by force is good?[MEDIA=youtube]oDpLQ-69c14[/MEDIA][SPOILER="Huge Article If You Have No Life"]Injuring yourself on purpose by making scratches or cuts on your body with a sharp object — enough to break the skin and make it bleed — is called cutting. Cutting is a type of self-injury, or SI. People who cut often start cutting in their young teens. Some continue to cut into adulthood.People may cut themselves on their wrists, arms, legs, or bellies. Some people self-injure by burning their skin with the end of a cigarette or lighted match.When cuts or burns heal, they often leave scars or marks. People who injure themselves usually hide the cuts and marks and sometimes no one else knows.It can be hard to understand why people cut themselves on purpose. Cutting is a way some people try to cope with the pain of strong emotions, <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/stress_coping_center/serious_stress/serious_stress.html" target="_blank">intense pressure</a>, or upsetting <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/relationships/healthy_relationship.html" target="_blank">relationship problems</a>. They may be dealing with feelings that seem too difficult to bear or bad situations they think can't change.Some people cut because they feel desperate for relief from bad feelings. People who cut may not know better ways to get relief from emotional pain or pressure. Some people cut to express strong feelings of rage, sorrow, rejection, desperation, longing, or emptiness.There are other ways to cope with difficulties, even big problems and terrible emotional pain. The help of a <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/feeling_sad/therapist.html" target="_blank">mental health professional</a> might be needed for major life troubles or overwhelming emotions. For other tough situations or strong emotions, it can help put things in perspective to talk problems over with parents, other adults, or friends. Getting plenty of<a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/take_care/exercise_wise.html" target="_blank">exercise</a> also can help put problems in perspective and help balance emotions.But people who cut may not have developed ways to cope. Or their coping skills may be overpowered by emotions that are too intense. When emotions don't get expressed in a healthy way, tension can build up — sometimes to a point where it seems almost unbearable. Cutting may be an attempt to relieve that extreme tension. For some, it seems like a way of feeling in control.The urge to cut might be triggered by strong feelings the person can't express — such as anger, hurt, shame, frustration, or alienation. People who cut sometimes say they feel they don't fit in or that no one understands them. A person might cut because of <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/emotions/someone_died.html" target="_blank">losing someone close</a> or to escape a sense of emptiness. Cutting might seem like the only way to find relief or express personal pain over relationships or rejection.People who cut or self-injure sometimes have other mental health problems that contribute to their emotional tension. Cutting is sometimes (but not always) associated with depression, <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/bipolar.html" target="_blank">bipolar disorder</a>, eating disorders, obsessive thinking, or compulsive behaviors. It can also be a sign of mental health problems that cause people to have trouble controlling their impulses or to take unnecessary risks. Some people who cut themselves have problems with drug or alcohol abuse.Some people who cut have had a traumatic experience, such as living through <a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/families/family_abuse.html" target="_blank">abuse</a>, violence, or a disaster. Self-injury may feel like a way of "waking up" from a sense of numbness after a traumatic experience. Or it may be a way of reliving the pain they went through, expressing anger over it, or trying to get control of it.[/SPOILER][SPOILER="What happens to your body when you cut?"]Although cutting may provide some temporary relief from a terrible feeling, even people who cut agree that it isn't a good way to get that relief. For one thing, the relief doesn't last. The troubles that triggered the cutting remain — they're just masked over.People don't usually intend to hurt themselves permanently when they cut. And they don't usually mean to keep cutting once they start. But both can happen. It's possible to misjudge the depth of a cut, making it so deep that it requires stitches (or, in extreme cases, hospitalization). Cuts can become infected if a person uses nonsterile or dirty cutting instruments — razors, scissors, pins, or even the sharp edge of the tab on a can of soda.Most people who cut aren't attempting suicide. Cutting is usually a person's attempt at feeling better, not ending it all. Although some people who cut do attempt suicide, it's usually because of the emotional problems and pain that lie behind their desire to self-harm, not the cutting itself.Cutting can be habit forming. It can become a compulsive behavior — meaning that the more a person does it, the more he or she feels the need to do it. The brain starts to connect the false sense of relief from bad feelings to the act of cutting, and it craves this relief the next time tension builds. When cutting becomes a compulsive behavior, it can seem impossible to stop. So cutting can seem almost like an addiction, where the urge to cut can seem too hard to resist. A behavior that starts as an attempt to feel more in control can end up controlling you.[/SPOILER][SPOILER="My Source"]<a href="http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html" target="_blank">http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/cutting.html</a>[/SPOILER]</blockquote>

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