Wed, 2009-04-08 00:12 — GabriellePrinter-friendly version
Twelve to fifteen63% (4504 votes)Eleven or younger16% (1105 votes)Sixteen to eighteen16% (1105 votes)Nineteen to twenty-one3% (217 votes)Twenty-one or older2% (162 votes)Total voters: 7093
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Cutting
Technically I started when I was 7, but only for a year and I'm not sure if I count that, When I was 15 is when I feel I really started.
I was about 5 I think...
I was about five when I started self harming. I am thirteen now and I have reccently stopped (about a mounth ago). I stoped self harming when I found a really helpful website, and then afterwards had counseling. I still have counseling, but I have stopped self harming.
i started at seven then stopped for a while...
i started cutting at the age of seven but i vaguely remember biting or hitting myself at a younger age. i stopped for a while when i was nine and then started up again at ten years old. im currently 13.
I was 13
If you dont class eating disorder as a form of self injury then I started around age 13. Id scratch myself with a blade and that progressed to cutting. Ive been fortunate enough never to have been hospitalised from cutting. However, when I started using ODing as a form of self injury I was very nearly admitted to psych ward.
If you do include eating disorder as a form of self injury then I started around age 5/6. I would starve myself for as long as possible then binge - if i could.
11
i was 11 wheni started it was about mid way through 6th grade i was absolutly hating all of the preasurre i had (hahaha lmfao i onviously did not no what stress and preasure was back then)
13
I started in January of '09. I am not sure if I was already 13 or not but my birthday is in January so...I burned a few times and tried bulimia and was anorexic for a little bit but not too long. I started drinking and doing tobacco alot...and then got caught for the tobacco and stopped doing that. I stopped cutting for a few months but started again and it has only gotten worse. I want to get help but at the same time I don't and just want to keep cutting without having to worry about covering it up. I am almost 14 now and I know I'm still very young and too young to be doing/worrying about some things but I think I'm very mature for my age, but that doesn't mean I should do the things I do and I was not saying that to try to make it okay or anything. I currently OD on pills to get high, drink a little bit but not enough to get drunk (just enough to intensify the effects of the pills) and cut...alot.
eleven
I satrted at eleven.
hmm
I was in my late twelves or my early thirteens, not completely sure.
17
i started when i was 17, now im 18. i cant ever imagine not cutting and not having scars. i wish i never started...
I know
Exactly what you mean by that last sentence. The same goes for me. I've been doin it since 13 and I'm goin on 19 in a few months.
i started cutting when i was
i started cutting when i was 9..
I started...
I started cutting myself at age fourteen. When I was younger, whenever I got hurt I would laugh. I enjoyed it, like a high. Also when I was younger, I would pinch myself and snap a rubber band on my wrist.
started at three then stopped for a while
I started at three by scratching at my arms and face and then stopped until 8th grade when everything blew up, I was bringing saftey pins and razors to school and cutting my arms during lunch and doing it in front of my friends, I think at first I did it because three of them beat me up a lot and I wanted people to see how much it was messing me up and by then my closest friend had shown me that she had cut herself too, and that she knew how it felt, and then came a summer full of hospitals and anti depressants that only made things much worse. Ninth grade didn't make things better when my new friends were cutters and attemped suicides themselves, and drug addicts. I was carving words and phrases into my arms like "this is for all of you" and then when I amazingly ended up in a relationship with the very girl who was my only help in 8th grade she let's me know that I am a decent guy and that there's other ways to cope and deal with our addiction, she's almost completely done with SI but I still have my episodes. I am now 15 and still trying to deal with this.
Fail
I feel like I've failed or something, I started cutting at age 14 which is so old to start cutting, it's like all my pain is fake because my problems aren't as bad as everyone else's at this site. I've only ever been admitted to hospital once because of my cutting and suicidal tendancies and i have a pretty big support system which is just upsetting because no one can do anything to help me. It's like some sort of sick competition in which I have to prove, despite my loving family and supportive friends, that I feel just as fucked up as everyone else who self harms, and has depression. I feel like such a faker.
_young boy on her bike_
I'm in the same boat...
I started at 13, and feel the same way you do. The pain I feel that makes me cut is real, but I feel like a fake because other people have it so much worse off than me. I have asshole parents that love me, and lots of friends that really care, damn them. Nobody should care about me. I dont deserve to be loved, or cared for.
anna_angel
i know what you mean.
i dont want to sound chintzy or cheesy or anything but i know where your coming from. well not completely becuase i have not experienced your life and etc. but i feel the exact same way sometimes. then i feel really pathetic because i too have a great support system and great friends, so i feel as though im just trying to "fit in" as some people would put it. which i totally am not. but i dont know what the hell im trying to be in the first place so who knows maybe i am a "faker" or someting. im constantly contradicting myself if you havent noticed already.
younggg.
i couldn't have been more than three.
i'd get really angry and hold my breath until i passed out.
the older i got,
the more serious the injury got.
i became anorexic at eleven.
started cutting about the same time.
**its been over ten months since my last cut. =]
so young....
O my goodness, I was beginning to think I was the only one who started cutting when they were still learning to walk!Sometimes think its just born in certain people. Some of my first memories are getting in trouble for cutting! And congratulations on ten months plus, thats incredible! You deserve better then self-harm and I hope your ten months stretches to a lifetime
:]
thats good three months :] i dont know who you are but i just wanted to say im proud of you . it can be tough to not cut and i myself am trying to quit :]
I was 15. I'd just revealed
I was 15. I'd just revealed that I'd been sexually abused by my dad and the shame was murder. I'm 17 now
Thinkingofhim
12
i was twelve
♥ Alice
i was 10
i was 10
life will qet better...i hope !
=|
I was 5 or 6
I was like 5 or 6 when I started biting my hand hard enough to leave welts and bruises.
same here
wow, me too. I clearly remember doing that about that age as well as hitting myself in the head. I'd sometimes bite and scratch my arms, too.
I was 12
I began at age 12. My family was going through some hard times and I had no idea how to handle it.
~Anita Lily
When....
i think i started cutting around 12 or 13. hard to remember, but i'm sure i was in the eighth grade, after that i started piercing my ears myself and gauging them.
captainshay
11 years old
i started cutting when i was 11. i guess that seems pretty young, but im the youngest in my class so i was in 7th grade. im currently almost 14
almost the same
i was 11 and im almost 14 now
I guess I wasn't as young as I thought
I started when I was about 12. I thought it was pretty young, but I suppose the majority of people started around my age. I'm 19 now. You'd think it would be old by now or something, but every time is just like the first.
I started cutting when
I was ten. I'm fifteen now.
I started cutting when I was
I started cutting when I was 8 now Im 11 and I cut and starve myself
ps.I weigh 47 pouns is that realy bad for an 11 year old
Uhh...
Well... First of all, I started at age ten, fifth grade. I'm also in the first stages of anorexia. I eat less than a meal each day. Showed people, didn't care, nearly three years later they all are flipping a s*** and second... You would die fer sure if you were only 47 pounds, it's technically impossible. Don't come on a site like this and lie, please. It won't make any of us legit self-injurers anyfuckinghappier. I believe the cutting but the weight? Check again sweetie..
age I started cutting was 45
I started cutting at age 45
started cutting
I started at 13, I am now 16.
i started when i was about 9
i started when i was about 9 or 10..i'm now 22
I started...
I started hitting myself at 8, starving at 9, cutting at 13, drugs at 14...my life sucks :)