Is it normal to want to cut myself, but not as a sad thing?

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I have a fear of pain, or anything that's a sprain and beyond that, so it keeps me from doing somethings. But lately, I've just have the urge to use a lancet and just make a tiny cut, no longer than a couple millimeters, and not deeper than a paper cut, to make myself bleed. It's not a depression thing or for pleasure, but I don't know why I want to do it? It's a recurring thought I have maybe once a week or so.

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  • Psychopath666
    5 years ago

    Yes it is normal. I have cut my wrists since I was 13 I cut for relief, control or to punish myself.
    I did become addicted to it, I cut my wrists deep, to feel numb. I never did it for attention, most people with that assumption don't understand. It is a fetish as well, some men are turned on by my scars, cuts on my wrists.
    I have been through a lot before anyone starts judging me so stfu.

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    • ghostsalad
      5 years ago

      I'm not judging you but I am concerned. Please do not cut yourself anymore, and I do understand that you must have been through a lot of trauma, but there are much better ways to cope with those thoughts, I understand that you have a fetish for it, but if it's hurting yourself it's really not okay. Please seek some help.

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  • sissycakes
    5 years ago

    i think you may be trying to overcome your fear little by little.

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  • ghostsalad
    5 years ago

    This is actually not okay, please see a therapist, because even if you don't feel it, it could be mental illnesses, there are mental illnesses that make you not feel anything. Please seek help, because this is not okay.

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  • Slowlymovingfast
    5 years ago

    I use to cut myself.

    Nothing extreme but I still have scars.

    My only goal was to soften the pain I felt inside by bringing it outside.

    I'm so lucky that I found other outlets for that feeling.

    That was 15 years ago, I am now a (relatively) well adjusted middle aged man.

    You do you but know that I am living proof that it will be ok.

    "In the end it will be ok, if it's not ok it's not the end"---- can't remember who said this but it's true.

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  • spit
    5 years ago

    There can be many emotional reasons for harming yourself. Some include, to relief emotional or pysical pain, or the inverse: to actually feel something, or break yourself out of a numb sensation. I've experienced both, but I know there are reasons outside of the ones I have listed. Cutting is a very personal experience, and can be used to mediate many psychological or even physical symptoms. I would suggest you closely evaluate your psychological, and pysical state, before and after cutting, to decipher your personal motivations for cutting.

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  • Ducklingducktheduckling
    5 years ago

    I would say that’s not normal but as long as you aren’t physically harming yourself it shouldn’t be a problem. From personal experience I would say it might be a symptom of OCD. I have compulsions similar to that like pulling hair out of my fingers almost daily (which is weird) but it doesn’t harm me so I don’t worry about it because it doesn’t make me depressed. If you start to actually harm yourself then it would be a problem and I would seek help.

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