How To Stop Cutting Yourself

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Self-injuring with knives or razor blades is a dangerous attempt at coping with problems like anger and anxiety. Learn how to get help and deal with your feelings more constructively.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Therapy
A psychiatrist
Relaxation techniques
Substitutes for self-injury
Outlets for your anger

Step 1: Seek counseling to explore why you are hurting yourself. Dialectical behavioral therapy -- an intense individual as well as group course involving talk therapy and journaling -- has proven especially effective in treating self-injurers.

Step 2: See a doctor who can determine whether you might benefit from medication. Anti-depressants are sometimes effective in treating self-injurers.

Tip: Cutting is common in people with borderline personality disorder.

Step 3: If you're one of the approximately 50 percent of self-injurers who have been sexually or physically abused and the situation is ongoing, report it to your parents or the authorities.

Step 4: Realize that self-injury is an attempt to self-soothe. Cope with your stress levels by taking up a relaxation technique like yoga or meditation to calm yourself.

Step 5: Find substitutes to use when the urge to cut strikes, like snapping a rubber band against your skin, rubbing your arms and legs with an ice cube, or doodling on them.

Step 6: Find healthy physical outlets for your anger, like going for a run or putting on loud music and dancing.

Step 7: For more information, contact Self Abuse Finally Ends at selfinjury.com or 800-DONT-CUT.

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[MrPhilosophyPunk1]

smoke weed

[zek281]

shes bangable ill distract her with something totally diffrent...

... yeah... baking cupcakes

[rcatstott]

i quit cutting and im proud of it

[The9u657fj]

i just stopped

[LauraPuffyCloud]

@MrPhilosophyPunk1 -_____- not helping

[FSflyer264]

I dont care if its an addiction, its not good and you need some help. Hurting yourself won't help. Dont be one of those deep assholes 'oooh,i'd rather feel pain than nothing at all'. Shut the fuck up. look at the big picture. YOUR FUCKING CUTTING YOURSELF. Get help.

[Deaffish55]

Draw a picture on your wrist instead, problem solved

[Choloz22]

DOODLE HARD

[cutestuff358]

what the fuck? it sounds like some robot telling you how to write a book not keep yourself from slicing your wrists ):( great job Howcast

[sumerfaith6]

Yeah right it's never that easy they act like it's an arts and crafts project...step one: bullshit

[JacobandNessie1]

@sonicfangamer2 step 1: SHUT THE FUCK UP. its an addiction....we cant help it.

[JacobandNessie1]

@BlackNitroGames step 1: it's an addiction.

did you not know that? no, so do research before u act like a smart ass.