Personally i have been a mutalation for 3 years now. I have not cut myself in 3 months. Some of my friends are cutters too. They think it's funny. They brag about each cut. I am trying to make them realize that's it is not funny at all. I don't know what to do? I have been telling them all the bad things that came with being a cutter. That doesn't seem to be helping at all. Please help me?

Here is the Bad thing. they were showing their cuts to the ****in world. Now the school put them in a ward. It's too late for me to help them. They desirve to be in that place since they did it 4 attention. Now they got their attention. So change what i said. I am proud their in a ward.

That's not SI.

I have a question about this all...is it only self mutilation if you are doing it to cause pain to RELIEVE like mental pain? because i write on my hands. and my wrists. and sometimes my lists trickle up my arm to my elbow. i even went through a thing where i wrote on my ankles. is this self mutilation? i usually just do it to copy homework down when i have lost paper. which is quite often.

Yeah, I read this one article about how these two girls cut themselves together... sort of like a game. They began to make it a competition, like who could cut deeper. One of the girls ended up cutting really deep and hurting herself bad.

Do any adults know that they're cutting themselves? If no one does, tell someone. They can take knives, razors, etc. away. They can talk to them, make them realize that what they're doing is extremely dangerous. And all you can do is be there for them, make sure they don't do too much harm before an adult can take action.

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Try to get them to do something to REALLY brag about. Once, I popped painkillers and did binge drinking contests. Now, I found something better to do. Paintball, and going to junkyards to smash the hell out of old cars. It really lets you blow off steam. But think of what the car goes through. *sniff* NOT! Who cares, as long as you don't get hurt (we don't) and you have a good time! Try stuff like that.