lucy may - January 16, 2010 are you saying the key to stop is telling someone close to me?
	yutingyuting123 - November 29, 2009 Thanks for posting this. It really helps a lot, and I'm glad you're recovering. <3
	bekka.h - June 29, 2009 Thanks so much for posting this. I'm glad your on your way to getting better. This article has helped me so much.

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	letting go - September 2, 2013 very true.
	jazzie - January 13, 2013 Well written and very true. I sh when i get angry at myself for not being able to recover from bulimia.
	MaskedBeauty - June 11, 2012 It's a very good summary of the reasons. I personally injure myself to snap myself out of depression and back into reality, although it can sometimes take several bouts of depression and several occasions of self harming for me to pull out of said depression. It also reminds me that everyone suffers in life and that I still have something to live for, that I shouldn't kill myself. It doesn't always help, but I do it anyways..
	whispershine - March 13, 2011 I hurt myself, because when I'm upset, I don't want to hurt someone else. So I take the anger out on myself..
	lucy may - January 16, 2010 I dont know why i do. I came to this site to try and find out my behaviour by talking to others, but i still understand. I feel like crap, and wont face reality, so the only way for now is mess around and laugh/try and find somthing to laugh about. but every so often i have confirsation and learn something knew about me.
	afraidtogetbackup - December 15, 2009 wow. everything but feeling i need to punish myself fits me.
	yutingyuting123 - November 29, 2009 It's true. Thanks for posting, I started self harming because there was some kind of relief in it.
	shun it all - November 10, 2009 i startid because some one told me about it and i was outcasted for bing in a mental hospital fo rsomthing i dint do and i tryed it and when i relized what iwas dowing i relzed i forgot what was gowing on and 5 years later it is the same what
	crippser - March 12, 2009 yea i totaly agree , i started self harming because of my dad i just grabed some sisisors and started hiting my bed cover then the next thing i know i am cutting my arms but it let me forget about my problems and all this anger i had was just gone.
	just.a.drug - January 12, 2009 I don't believe in the term "emo". Emo is short for emotional, therefore we are all emo, we are all emotional beings. Other than that I like this article, good job.
	the_nameless_shadow - December 13, 2008 true..
	vulpix99 - December 10, 2008 Yeah, I read that it could be also: Preventing suicide Expressing or repressing sexuality Expressing or coping with feelings of alienation Validating their emotional pain - the wounds can serve as evidence that those feelings are real I found all the reasons and informations here --> http://www.selfharm.net/
	air35 - October 14, 2008 WOW..you are very very very great!!!!!!!!!!!!!
	MFA - September 8, 2008 nice..
	nearysh - June 2, 2008 amazing

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This is a report I did for a family studies class, and it really helped me pinpoint the reasons for my cutting, so take a look at it. It's very simple and categorized.

By Inspireme

	needinghelpgirl - July 18, 2012 i didn't think anyone could describe what it feels like but you did perfectly
	wareagle07 - August 22, 2010 This is the perfect description of how it feels
	tinkles - October 14, 2009 This is really touching <3 Very true X

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	letting go - September 2, 2013 wow thank you for this. very true!
	cowgirl_2418 - July 25, 2010 This is very much truth! Thank you for writing this.
	nightsky - May 7, 2010 thanks for sharing this.
	im_the_kid_that_falls - April 16, 2009 I love this! It's so true!
	vulpix99 - December 10, 2008 Awesome article.

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	Briar - March 20, 2016 This is very good. I've been consciously self-harming for more than 30 years. I had forgotten most of this because it just seems normal to me. It reminded me that life wasn't meant to be this way. As a hospital chaplain said to me once, 'It's no way to live'.
	jo1995 - June 28, 2012 This is amazing. And true. Love it.
	Bobbiedot12 - October 21, 2011 I saw this before my first cut and I didn't believe it. Now I think about cutting every time I'm triggered but turn to rubber bands instead, which also do damage if you abuse them... Oh, god, I wish I had listened....
	Strider - August 4, 2011 ... I bought my blade about two years ago ... and since then I have only cut very rarely. I don't even consider myself as "cutting" ... it's never bad, it's never deep, I still wear t-shirts without anyone getting suspicious ... as touching as this article is, I don't see how I could get there ...
	bluedoc - July 21, 2011 i saw this not before i cut but before things went too far, i still read it whenever i get doubts about quitting, thank you,
	Rain.Angel - July 16, 2011 Thankyou. this was so moving, it made me start to shake and cry, very well written.
	JustGrey - April 26, 2011 If only I had seen this before I started. I think this could seriously make anyone reconsider. Amazing job.
	X...RaWR...X - February 16, 2011 This brought me to tears, it was so beautifully written. don't like it, but it's so true. You can deny it all but when you read through and agree with everything...wow. You found the words for everything i, and others, are going through. Thank you I wish i had seen this before now...
	4retro4 - May 27, 2010 words that are so painfully true, thank you.
	lil_attie - May 14, 2010 omg I thought someone reached in my head and pulled out everything I knew but never wanted to say. It's beautifully written.
	SheHasHope - April 5, 2010 This makes me incredibly depressed.
	lucy may - January 18, 2010 The part were you said when the person panic's because they can not stop the bleeding and are shaking cus there sceard, i went through all that to, and everything you discussed was like everything i have so far gone though to, and the part were things are so out of control and your sceard, and promise never again.. there is always ' again'.
	yutingyuting123 - November 29, 2009 Thanks for posting. I wish I could have seen it earlier though, when I first started cutting. Right now I'm just thinking "I'm in control" but I can't really make myself stop.
	Isaiah61 - October 29, 2009 Thank you for posting this. I know most people on this site have already passed that point of the "first cut," but I am the exception. I come here because I don't want to start. So thank you for encouraging me.
	XxHellzxX - September 27, 2009 I wish someone would've showed this to me when I started. I read through that and just kept nodding my head.
	im_the_kid_that_falls - July 25, 2009 before i first read this i was like "im not that bad, im in control" but everything that was said i was like, yeah, done that, that too, yup done it. Now its like my life and i don't think about buying all that stuff and cleaning the blood, its just a routine. Wish i could get out of it, but im trying!
	MaddieLyn - July 24, 2009 please please please, if you have just started cutting or are even thinking about it. DONT. every word said in that article is true. when i started i thought that it wouldnt control my life and i would only do it every once and awhile when i got really deppressed. now im doing it several days a week. and i think about it almost all the time. you WILL withdraw from people. and its true you wont be able to control how deep or where you cut. it will get deeper and deeper and deeper. and then youll move onto burning and breaking your bones. just dont even start. i wish i had read this..
	givenin - July 18, 2009 i agree completely. i love and hate myself for what i do. i wish i had never started and hope i never stop. sometimes i don't think i ever will. its so hard to get out. my cousin tried cutting to 'prove a point to me' all it proved was that i'm awful for letting him know what i do
	Xxfind_me_herexX - June 7, 2009 so true.
	_adreamcometrue - June 4, 2009 This made me cry, it's so true. I wish I had seen this before.
	Freedom Fighter - April 29, 2009 thankyou DAA
	sam23 - March 15, 2009 This was beautiful. reading it brought back a flood of memories...and a few tears. Though it may be a bit late for me, I'm going to forward this to a friend right now, who is still in the first "stage" of SI. He wants to cut, but can't quite bring himself to it. And no matter how hard I try to convince him to please, please not start, he won't listen to me. Maybe he'll listen to these words from a stranger though. thank you.
	chingas - February 1, 2009 This is a good piece of text I think. I read this over and over again always when I feel like slipping back to cutting. And this really helps!
	Charlotte5171 - October 14, 2008 Most of the people on this site, if not all are already past the stage of 'the first cut'. We already know and have gone through all that stuff. It's just a reminder of how hard it is to stop and of how lonely it is to self harm.
	lovedupzombie - October 12, 2008 When I read this, I couldnt helop but think done that done that done that. I like to think Im in control but Im not, most of us arent we self harm without thinking we just do it. Its a pattern a routine.
	anastacia - October 11, 2008 it's all true, and it's hard to accept that it's true. first one little cut and now i'm ashamed for my body. ... it's aint easy the read your life
	xxxgypsyxxx - June 13, 2008 it is that bad.. it really is.... i feel both pride and shame at what i do... but i dont CHOOSE to cut... i dont even think when i do... its just.. there
	peaceflower - April 22, 2008 I would never have listened to it if I had have read it. I'd never get THAT crazy. not me. but I did and it's hell. trying to get out of it is SO hard, it really does take over your life. but we get there in the end. love & light
	heavymetal4life - February 26, 2008 I'm not sure I would have listened...But I still wish that something like this was easily found when I started...
	abba12 - February 13, 2008 i remember this, apparently someone on the vetrans forum wrote it years ago before they left the site, and placed it on quizzilla which is where i came across it. i wish i'd know but i found this at a time i was trying to stop not start
	Piper - February 9, 2008 your right, i do wish i had seen this befor the first cut
	michelleRAINBOW - February 8, 2008 I don't like that. I don't choose to cut, nor am I proud of it. It just happens.

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	x_Patch_x - October 28, 2010 thanks for this x
	...howl - January 27, 2008 Slip ups are so definatly part of quitting, the day you dont slip up is the day you know you're actually ready to try fr real
	yvonne - September 19, 2007 totally agree,not all on here are teenagers? just restarted after 2yr long break.....so was just the advice i was needing,feel so guilty......
	3 inches from the edge - June 16, 2007 i was waiting for this one !I agree with what you are trying to say but not only teenagers have to deal with SI ,and about the slip-ups and the extra guilt and bandeges the nextday ,you are tottaly right....

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