Triggering (SI) - How old were you when.. - Page 18

yourockmysocks · 01-08-2008, 09:59 PM

I think I've always been doing it. Looking back I can't remember a time when I didn't SH. I just changed tools the older I got, and the SH gradually grew more extreme as new stresses were introduced into my life.

RenewedHope · 01-08-2008, 11:51 PM

I can't remember exactly how old I was. I only started cutting a few years back but I used other way of SH from when I was 11 or 12. I can't actually remember not SHing

mizz_devilish · 02-08-2008, 12:31 AM

started cutting when i was 13 i think just started with a pair or scissors and scratching over and over the same place then turned in to cutting

TheHurtWillNeverHeal · 02-08-2008, 01:19 AM

I started when I was 13.
I remember I partly started as a punishment for eating. And I also started because I was upset over my friend. She had tried to kill herself right in front of me twice.

xanthismom · 02-08-2008, 08:43 AM

I started cutting at the age 22 after i gave birth to my daughter i had postnatle depression and few years l8r diagnosed with BPD

Renee NAY · 03-08-2008, 04:24 AM

I cut for a few months to a year when I was maybe 10. I stopped for awhile, did it occasionally when I was 11, Then stopped again. It got bad when I was 12 and 13, then I stopped again. Now 14, and it's coming back for me. Seems like most people's stories are: tried it for a bit, then stopped, then started again and it became a common thing.

Mango · 03-08-2008, 06:36 AM

Scratching myself enough to draw blood - around 9 yrs old
Cutting/Burning - 14

invisible_x · 12-10-2008, 03:59 PM

picking at my skin unconciously since i was around 6-7? :/
and on and off cutting/scratching a year ago.
it became regular around may.

RazorKissBrad · 12-10-2008, 03:59 PM

About 12 years old, I am 20 now. Always been a cutter and go through phases of strangling myself sometimes and hitting my head. Nothing that hasnt already been said though im sure

flames_of_pain · 12-10-2008, 04:21 PM

I have been cutting since i was 7, i know thats a bit young and i dont even remember why i started i only remember seeing my sister do it who is alot older then me. i didnt know it would be come an adiction.

Schleier von Dunst · 12-10-2008, 04:45 PM

I was 14 when I started cutting. But when I looked back into my past, I realised I'd always hit my head or slapped myself of whatever, and I often, and still do, make very snide or sarcastic comments enough to get a friend to slap me or hit me or whatever, so I kinda always brought it on myself even if I didn't actually do it myself...

lucygracelizabeth · 12-10-2008, 07:33 PM

i was 10 when i fist started cutting but not deep enough to leave a scar till 12

rustedchains · 12-10-2008, 07:36 PM

I was 14. 6 1/2 years now, as it was in January of that year.

thespianicism · 13-10-2008, 02:15 PM

I did some scratching and less severe SI forms starting at 12ish? I started burning, kind of unconsciously, around 14 and cutting at 15.

xADAMx · 13-10-2008, 02:45 PM

Started cutting when I was 15, it was when I was in Year 11 having to deal with GCSE's as well as near constant bullying and stress at school. It carried on for about a year or so then I stopped until this year (now 21) - since then it's gotten really bad.

Freya · 13-10-2008, 09:19 PM

11. it seemed like a good idea at the time. (:
it doesnt scar for long really, even though i feel like I should make it.
cus im not "hardcore"
im 15 now.

little_miss_jessi · 13-10-2008, 09:43 PM

punched walls since i was bout 10 started cutting wen i was 13

foxfly · 13-10-2008, 09:47 PM

Biting myself/coughing since I was 8/9.
Cutting since 13.
19 now.

Marshmello Kid · 13-10-2008, 10:14 PM

Cutting since I was about 12, maybe 11. . . I'm now 14, almost 15 and I'm stopping
Now that I look back on it, I've always done stupid things hoping to get hurt by them, so I'm not really sure when that started

fallen wings44 · 13-10-2008, 10:20 PM

i started cuting a few moths ago...