Do you hurt yourself or mutilate yourself when your depressed?

I think people hurt themselves when theyre very depressed because depression is anger turned inwards, so you basically HATE yourself and want to punish yourself. You see your SELF as separate and apart from you. I never wanted to hurt myself literally but I would have visions of dying very violently when I was very sad.

Whenever I get depressed, I would often punch the walls around the house, find something to throw, and then cool down by eating lots of things from the refrigerator. I often eat the junk foods first, which in this case, wrecks my diet, and then after awhile, I go out and jog around the neighborhood till my depression wears off and I feel tired and then I sleep it off. If I am still depressed I would jog again and then exercise. That's how my life is whenever I'm depressed.

I recommend you see the movie The Secretary. It portrays a woman who requires a deep level of intensity that was not being matched within her. It is such a plutonic, deep level of emotion that many people cannot even contemplate it. Very misunderstood Self-mutilation is a way of feeling this intensity.

I used to cut myself and on occasion I would bruise myself too. The reason behind it is the same as yours. I was trying to cover up my emotional pain. I also felt like everyone else hurt me why shouldn't I hurt me too. I haven't cut in over 2 years though.

I used to do that and other self-destructive things when I got depressed until I realized that I was mostly doing it for attention and that it was a really unproductive way to cope with how I was feeling. These days, when I'm feeling bad I generally try to find ways of making myself better as a person and I find I'm much happier for it.

I was diagnosed with Bi-Polar which is also known as manic depression. It was really hars as your moods are very unstable. One minute your hyper like someone fed you 10 cups of sugar, and the next you want to kill yourself. I had problems with self mutilation, I was a cutter. I think the reason I did this is because I thought the physical pain was easier to deal with then the mental pain. Since getting married in March of last year, and having my baby in June of last year (2006) I haven't had one problem at all. I think that everyone is born with some kind of depressive tendency and it takes a tramatic experience (usually bad) to set it off, however if something else tramatic happens ( usually good)it can then make the depression a lot easier to deal with. Since having my child and getting married as I said I no longer feel the way I used to, but I think the biggest thing about that is I now have 2 people to live for. For so long I was searching for a reason, and now I have two!!

wow... i found myself eating a lot. though of course, i am not getting fat coz of psychological things. the foods i eat came almost like make me farting all day and mad me had my constipation or diarrhea. but no, i never hurt myself or what... it will be more dangerous like if accidentally you had a knife and stabbed yourself, well, i can say that you have mental illness then.

I did it just once in my life when I was young, say arround age 25 or so. I those days my anger & temporament was beyond my controls I was of little hot tempored man. Later in life I slowly cooled down. I understand this happens to so many when somthing is crosses the limits of patience. This habit affects our health as well, so I advise the youth to avoid such a kind of behavior in their life.

I have cut myself and jabbed myself with pins before, but it's not something I do often. Lately I haven't had any kind of appetite and I think it's because of depression.

Love heals, love conquers. When You do not have love. Evil will take the upper hand. We are temple of the Holy Spirit. Pray the God will reveal to you His Love and you are precious to Him. Do not let hate to over power you. Find someone to love and cherish. Uphold life. Seek for clean air. Do not be poisoned by self loved. Hurting oneself is a sign of immaturity and imbalance in your emotions. Listen to love music. Fill your emotions with love not hate.

I used to cut myself when I was younger.I've been in a depression most of my life there times when it got really bad then I would cut myself with with either scissors or a knife,always making sure i didn't cut deep enough to scar as i didn't want anyone to question me. I saw on the news once that people who cut themselves have a lot of self-loathing ,just about no self esteem.It wasn't only til a few years ago that I got myself out of that.My depression is beginning to lessen and am hopeful that I won't have to suffer with it anymore.

Yes I do. I cut, I don't eat, I hit things, I scratch myself, I hit my head against walls, I hit myself so hard I cause bruises. I used to pop pills. I used to cut alot but I have recently stopped due to my girlfriend not liking it. I'm a manic depressive and my parents refuse to get me treatment and I refuse to go on meds. To each his own, eh?

Hi, all of us experience deppression, thats our 1 enemy in ourself. For me to cure deppression is by asking God for peace , and I go jogging and thinking positive thing in mylife.

i used to. but not anymore.. well i cut down alot. i havent cut myself in a few months. but not to long ago i did down a whole bottle of topamax. but as i told the hospital i really wasnt trying to kill myself. i knew i wasnt going to die. i did just mean to take a couple but i just blanked out..now what i do instead of cutting myself is just pop a few vicodin. yeh i know its bad..but sometimes i just need something to drag me away from all the bullsh!t i'm going through

I have been depressed but I have never done anything to hurt or mutilate myself. However I have watched shows about it and usually the reply to why?? is it makes them feel numb to pain. It somehow lessens the emotional pain they are feeling. I guess come to think of it what I do to hurt myself would be to eat too much. I wish I was the opposite in that case. You didn't really say if you still did this or not but I hope you don't and that you have found ways of coping.

i have never tried that cos i think i was never that frustrated but yeah i have tried to hurt myself sometimes

I have never thought about suidide...I am too much of a chicken. If I get depressed I usually get quiet and I cry a lot.

No i dont yes i feed my self and celebrate my depression have loads of chocolates or watever i feel like and has also have loads of calories,,:))

i m not a stupid and will hurt myself when depressed......

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