Pain outside of SM

[snowflake]

As someone who was NOT a cutter, per se, but used pain in a similar way, I'll give my $0.02.

For me, when I was in emotional pain, I would cause myself physical pain and the emotional pain would recede.

Now, I wasn't a "cutter" necessarily.... but I'd sometimes pull my hair out strand by strand, scratch my arms or legs, hold my hand over a lighter (not until it blistered), and things of that nature.

It sends you to a different plane emotionally & mentally. It allowed me to shut off what I was feeling emotionally, focus on the physical and then I could get back to the mental and decide what to do about it.

Not sure if that makes sense.

I still have these tendencies... but I've worked it out so that I deal with emotional pain in a healthier way now, and only rarely do I want to harm myself to get away from things.

hun i am with you ..mind you i didn't do the blistering but all the rest and yes i bash myself against things as well anything to take the pain way inside of me...

And just like you i have found healthier ways ... although at times when that is not available i find at times i still do things to take the mental agony away ...

One time it came on so fast i broke ..i wrote a peom about it and posted it called Breakdown.. not 2 or three hours after it started...

it is in no-erotic poems near the top at the moment as i had yet another break down just a while ago.. sighs.. i am still trying to get over it...

just my opinion

hugs
snow

[BryansGrrrl]

although at times when that is not available i find at times i still do things to take the mental agony away ...

Yes, if the need is immediate, I will do that also. Rubber band snapping or hair pulling is what I usually go with. Or digging my fingernails into my palms. It helps to focus me. I haven't done so in over a year, however... and I've found that my medication helps tremendously with this type of thing.

[snowflake]

Yes, if the need is immediate, I will do that also. Rubber band snapping or hair pulling is what I usually go with. Or digging my fingernails into my palms. It helps to focus me. I haven't done so in over a year, however... and I've found that my medication helps tremendously with this type of thing.

again same with me other then the elastics and meds .. they are having problems agreeing for anit depressant aboutt what i can take .. a lot say if you have glacoma.... and i do .. but lorazepam does help although after having pills abused on me {my ex and one doc that new nothing 36 pills a day it ended up as} i fight to not take them and try to beat it on my own...

But sudden serges of stress bring it out fast and i can't deal with it.. that and a few new things i am trying to swallow in life are just eating and spitting me out as of late .. thus why the antidepressants... sighs..

Thanks hun for being so open and opening the door for me to be open .. it has certainly help

Extra big hugs

snow

again just my opinion