How do I stop cutting?

Think about different things! Go to a psychologist and ask the same exact question!! They can better help you understand alternatives to it.

Find someone to talk to. I stop hurting myself when I realized it was hurting my favorite person who cared for me. I made a promise not to ever do it again.

You can get help through therapy and even medications, and learn ways to distract yourself from self harm.

Self-harm is something that takes quite a lot of time, patience and determination to stop. The best thing to do would be to try out different techniques (such as self-care, distraction and alternative techniques) to find out what works for you.

It's hard. It's so terribly hard to stop something that potentially has been happening for so long. The final realisation that it does not help anything, and hurting yourself does not stop what you are feeling in the inside will be a hard one, but recovery is so worth it. You are worth it.

There are many things you can do to help stop yourself from giving yourself harm. One of the first important steps is to realize why you cut. Do you enjoy the sight of blood or the sting and pain? Is it to just feel something? From there you can move on to alternatives that are a lot less harmful and don't leave scars. So if you like the sight of blood and cuts, you can get a red marker and draw the cuts on and simply wash them off when you are done and satisfied. If you want the pain and you just want to feel something, you can try holding ice in your hands, snapping rubber bands or hair ties on your wrists, or take a cold shower. When you are on the road to recovery, you may slip up a few times and end up cutting again. But do not beat yourself up over "failing". It is not failure, it is almost guaranteed that at least once you will relapse and give in. That is okay. Keep on the bright side of things! You've made it this far until you did it, that is a big step! I hope these helped you, good luck on your path to healing! :)

Personally, I stopped self harm using the ice method. Get some ice and put it in your hand, or rub it in the place you want to hurt yourself. Let the cold do the work. It's much less harmful.

Try different things. Snap a rubber band on your arm, cup up paper, smear red marker over your arm to make it look like blood, draw, watch a movie, read, talk to someone like a friend, play with an animal, go for a walk.

I believe in getting to the root of the issue, of why cutting. What is it that cutting does for you and then considering other options that can achieve the same function.

In order to stop cutting maybe you should cut out any part of your life that makes you feel a bad way I want you to know a lot of people suffer from this and i just want to make it all better for you and anybody else that suffers from this. It’s not a healthy thing to do at all. And you have to really try and work in order to completely stop it.