Kind of

When I cut I feel a slight sting as I'm doing it, but usually its not as bad as the emotions I'm feeling so it goes unoticed, but after I have cut, it hurts when I touch it, the week or so it takes for it to start healing. But when I burn it doesn't hurt at all when I'm doing it, but the after effects hurts more than when I cut. So it just depends really...  

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 13, high school student]

Tue, 2010-06-22 17:16 — Summer

yes, and no

Sometimes if I'm cutting in sensitive areas like lower arms or chest area, it stings and hurts a lot, but in my head I just tell myself "think of your emotional pain" and then I can't feel anything. I just kinda keep cutting without any feeling. I also focus on what ever music I'm using to cut to. 

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[female, age 18, began to SI at age 14, high school student]

Thu, 2010-05-27 05:31 — Anonymous

Do You Feel Pain When You Hurt Yourself?

Fisic Pain I suppose.

Most of the times, no. It depends a lot in the reason and the emotions I have in the moment. I can't do it without a reason just because I woke up this morning: "Yay, I want to burn myself", that way I can't take the pain of the cutting/burning.

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[female, age 18, has self-injured all her life]

Mon, 2010-04-26 10:48 — Nagizuma

[female, age 16, began to SI at age 12, high school student]

I sometimes feel pain. Sometimes before I cut I get really bad anxiety, that's when I feel the most pain. Alot of the time when I'm really upset, I just get into it and get lost in the act. When this happens I don't really feel the pain. I feel the releif though. Later on I feel the pain of what I did.

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 12, high school student]

Tue, 2010-03-30 11:08 — Anonymous

[female, age 16, began to SI at age 12-13]

I almost always dissociate. I hardly feel anything, let alone pain, I stop being able to see the razor, or safety pin, or whatever. I stop breathing. My hearing goes out, everything sounds fuzzy. The only pain I feel is afterwards, and even then, it doesn't seem like its attached to me.

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 12-13]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle

[female, age 17, began to SI at age 13]

It depends on how intense I'm feeling. Sometimes I will be so "out of it" that I can do virtually any kind of harm to myself and I wont feel it, and other times I will be upset and feel the need to cut, but can't make more than scratches because of the pain and anxiety. When I don't bleed as much as I need to to feel "normal" again, I get extremely frustrated and feel even more helpless than before. It's the single most worst feeling.

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[female, age 17, began to SI at age 13]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle

[female, age 16, began to SI at age 5 or 6]

Sometimes I feel it, but I have learned to look at it in a different way. I have taught my body to think that what I am feeling is not pain but something else, an incredible wonderful good feeling... it works.

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 5 or 6]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle

[female, age 16, began to SI at age 15]

I feel a slight sting but that is it. I think i am dissociated because if i cut myself accidentally it hurts a lot...and and the cuts are usually smaller than the ones i do through SI. The cuts start to hurt afterwards [about an hour or two], but during i feel nothing except calm.

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 15]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle

[female, age 38, began to SI at age 37]

Yes, I feel pain. I think that is the only reason I do not really injure myself so bad that I need medical help. I WANT to cut deeper but I'm afraid.

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[female, age 38, began to SI at age 37]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle

[female, age 18, began to SI at age 16]

No, its weird how if I get a cut then it hurts differently, as in more, than when I cut myself. If I ever feel any pain-ish sensation its more like a satisfactory feeling.

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[female, age 18, began to SI at age 16]

Fri, 2009-04-03 23:33 — Gabrielle