why does cutting make me feel better but then bad afterwards?

Cutting, or any form of self harm, is a temporary fix. It can feel good to relieve your pain by hurting yourself, but after you're done, you feel pretty bad. A lot of people experience this, and self harming becomes an addiction to them because they don't want to feel bad, and self harming is the only thing that can make them feel good.

Cutting releases feel good hormones, but after that you feel the guilt of what you've done so maybe that's why you feel bad.

The cutting that you do releases chemicals from the brain that generate happiness. This happiness lasts for a short amount of time until you realize what you've done to yourself and you begin to regret your actions. At first you enjoy the pain, but then you hate the consequences.

Self-harm is a way to quickly flood your nervous system with endorphins and adrenaline. This will cause changes in your breathing and heartbeat as it clears your mind. Physically, you should feel calm and focused, maybe even happy or relieved. This is because of the increase in endorphins and adrenaline. Both of these are not lasting or sustainable in your body. Biologically speaking, they are useful when you are in danger, since they are what help you stay conscious and aware when you are threatened or injured. They numb physical pain and turn off the rational-thinking parts of your brain. But once these chemicals subside, reality is able to set in, and you're left with the physical pain of your new injury. Plus, whatever caused all the stress before you harmed yourself still exists. Nothing has changed your circumstances, and on top of that, you're now feeling physical pain, as well as emotional pain and stress, again. Self-harming is a coping mechanism we use to try and gain relief and control in the moment, but there are no types of self-harm that can actually solve any of your anxieties or eliminate your depression. Whatever is causing these will be there after the adrenaline and endorphins go away. So it's best to get professional help to address the underlying causes, and medical attention for your injuries, if needed. Good luck, and take care.

Cutting or any kind of self-harm is good at the momento cause is make endorfine being released on your body, making you feel good for a little time, but then is stops and all come back on the felling before. Most of the time becomes a addiction because of it, you want more time-out of your pain and cut yourself more, What turns it on a really vicous cycle, hope I helped.

It releases natural pain modulators from the body making you feel euphoric. These chemicals feel similar to a lot of pain drugs, but the sensation goes away very quickly. Then you're just left with a full cut which can be very painful and quite dangerous. You may also feel guilty for doing this to yourself for the moment of feeling good. The good news is that there are other way to have that same good feeling without hurting yourself. Stay safe.

Cutting provides an in the moment relief but you feel bad afterwards because you realize what you just did. This is what I have felt in my experience.

It is a temporary relief. The pain allows you to be distracted from how you feel and allows a different sensation to take over you. But you also just hurt yourself so your body is rejecting what has happened to it and you still feel the way you did before cutting. It is a temporary fix, so when the sensation leaves you, you are left feeling how you felt before and with just an aching cut on yourself. You may also feel there is a better way to get through it, but you feel stuck, depressed, helpless to stop it.

Cutting is a form of self-harming.. It helps to relieve pain and release a hormone called endorphins. When we are being relieved from a specific emotion or type of mental pain and when we are releasing those endorphins, it can help to make us feel better. Yet after we have cut, it then causes anger and guilt within us. So, cutting makes you feel better right there and then in that moment but then after makes you feel bad again.

You feel waves of emotions coming towards you. You can't handle it. You feel overwhelmed. So how do you cope up? By cutting. That cutting distracts you from the overwhelming feelings so you feel good but then the reality hits you and you feel bad. It's like drugs...