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

your brain releases chemicals when you cut but when your done cutting it will go away. Its like getting drunk when your cutting but then you wake up with a hangover.

Cutting distracts the brain from emotional trauma, but a sense of guilt will most likely come afterwards. Rather than cutting, try playing with legos or clay. Your brain will focus more on the work your hands are doing, rather than the emotions.

It makes you feel better in the moment. Self harm is a short term solution, not a long term solution. You feel guilty afterwards, because you know there are a million other things you could've done rather than hurt yourself.

It feels better because your body is focusing on the physical pain instead of the mental pain . You feel bad afterwards because you feel guilty for hurting yourself

Because cutting relieves the pain temporarily. You stop thinking about your problems or your pain for a while, but then when the pain goes away you're left with yet another scar / damage, and that makes you feel bad. Because you know you shouldn't have done it, but you did

You feel guilty afterwards, but at the time you're body releases endorphins to combat the pain, as well as adrenaline, which can be quite pleasant. You feel guilty due to the fact that it's been ingrained in your mind that self harm is bad

For me personally, cutting is a way to release everything that's going on inside of me. It's a way for me to focus on the physical pain rather than the emotional pain, to have pain that I can understand. It's something that I can control when everything else feels so out of control. In a way, cutting makes me feel better. It's something that I know I can always turn too. But after I'm finished, I feel upset with myself. Because although it momentarily made me feel better, it didn't actually address the root of the pain. It's not dealing with it, it's distracting yourself in an attempt to cope with it all. And then suddenly everything just comes flooding back again- and along with all of it you feel weak for giving in. The scars become another thing- another part of yourself- that you have to hide.

Because when cutting you concentrate on another pain. And it realizes adrenaline which can be addictive. It's like a drug: while doing it you feel good, when it's effect stops you feel sad. You also feel bad because you know you shouldn't do it.

It is something that causes you a freeing relief from your pain in the moment but does not solve the problem. It is as if you are adding more scars on top of invisible wounds. It creates a more tangible pain to the pain you feel on the inside. From my personal experience, I feel a lot of shame after I cut. To me it is the only way out and the only thing that will calm me in the moment, but in the days following I resent myself for doing it. I understand the stigma around it and how the people around me feel about it, but more drastically I understand that it is a sign of how I view myself. I am walking around with marks on my body that constantly remind me of the negative self image and pain I feel. It just digs in and causes more issues.

Cutting would make you feel better initially as the physical pain it causes would numb the emotional pain, but after the pain has subdued the emotional pain would return along with the physical pain and potentially extra emotional pain or worry