Why does it seem to help??????

There is something I have always wondered about cutting. It seems to be a fairly new phenomenon. I am 20 years older than you and I don't know of it ever happening when I was a kid. Maybe it did I don't know but it wasn't like it is today. Do you think that it may have something to do with self punishment? I ask because of the changing attitudes in the last 20-25 years about raising kids and spanking. Parents today seem a lot more reluctant to spank or even punish their kids in any kind of a harsh way. It is considered that if you spank your kids it is promoting violence. But I am of the mind that kids really feel more secure with firm boundaries. Not abusive of course, but now it seems that maybe kids who were not shown those boundaries(but know that they should be there) are taking it out on themselves. I don't know, It's just a question I have had whenever I read or hear an account of young people injuring themselves and saying that it makes them feel better. Maybe in a broken sort of way they see it as a kid of my generation would see a spanking. Painful, but a sign of security and caring at the same time. I hope you find what you are looking for.

Oh my goodness! Have you talked with your doctor about this? Isn't there someone you can call when you get to feeling that bad? I'm sorry it's got to this point again. I have no experience with this so don't have any advice.