I haven’t done it in 5 days and I feel really strange. I’m so stressed right now, and my anxiety levels are super high, and I’m depersonalizing left and right and I kind of really want to cut. But for some reason I can’t bring myself to pick up the safety pin. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
I should feel good, free, normal. I don’t, though. All I feel is anger pent up inside me and I don’t know what to do with myself.
So my question is this:Â Is making tiny, harmless slashes across your skin to relieve stress REALLY worse than bottling up all the angst and sadness and hate and rage inside of you and just letting it sit there? Because its not fun, keeping all your emotions on the inside. You just feel confused, empty and useless all the time.
2 comments
I have asked myself the same questions a million times and honestly i think cutting is better in the short term but in the long term is not. when you cut you dont use your coping skills and therefor dont develop as they should and you learn to cut instead of coping and because you dont learn to cope you cant handle life’s problems or learn to solve them. Hope this helps and makes sense.
You feel the way you do because you are not used to coping with you emotions and going trough them it might be hard for some time just try to increase your coping skills and do the best that you can.
I’ll have to agree with gen…
I haven’t often asked myself this, but I don’t particularly see it as that long term solution(if there is one). It’s an action that helps deal with your anger and sadness, but sort of avoids the problem-ish. So like gen said, it’s more about working on your coping skills, rather than just resorting to cutting all the time.
Wish you luck if you decide to quit or not..maybe you’ll learn to deal better if you do, and that’ll give me some motivation myself…