Serious question. Why do people hurt themselves? Like cutting and shit...

Serious question. Why do people hurt themselves? Like cutting and shit. If you're going to do that you might as well an hero. If you want it to end, end it.

Why would Satan just be hanging there by himself? I don't buy it.

It temporarily distracts them from their thoughts. Who's to say they want to die?

im pretty sure its just a random monster

Why temporary instead of forever? That's just bullshit.

>Why would Satan
>Satan

Gtfo

attention

How else could he bury all the dinosaur bones to mislead all of the non-believers?
Satan must have more underground bunkers than Osama Bin Laden

attention

I'M PRETTY SURE YOU HAVE NO WAY TO KNOW THAT STOP LYING ON THE INTERNET

Monkey see monkey do. I should know, I did it when I was a faggot in high school.

I didn't exactly hang around the super emo/goth kids, but they definitely spilled over into the anti-social gamer groups so when they talked about it, my teenage angst thought that's what I need to do with my """depression""".

I didn't get anything out of it, I just felt like I was supposed to. This probably applies to most cutters, very few of them are actual masochists.

Attention, a call for help and/or that it helps them transcend the emotional pain for a short moment

I knew this one chick who did it for attention...

They should transcend 6 feet under

It's one of two things, or sometimes both.
Physical pain is a way to cope with mental pain, if you focus on how much pain is being caused by the physical damage, you forget the mental pain, temporarily.
Or, it's for attention. It's a way for people to get others to acknowledge that they're in mental pain, or they're just attention seeking whores who will do anything for people to pay attention to them.
these are the "main" reasons.

lolletspretendwedontknowwhatthemonsterislol

That's what fucking drugs are for

Probably the most realistic answer in this thread.

the self harming (not necessarilycutting) itself leads to the release of huge amounts of serotonin and/or dopamin, reducing the stress/depression/anxiety or whatever makes the cutting person feel bad
but i don´t know why it works that way

I did this when I was like 14 or so, and I did it because I was very emotionally unstable and it helped me feel something physically jarring that took me away from my thoughts. The physical pain makes it harder to think, something like that. I honestly can't remember enough to truly discern why exactly I did it, but that's my best guess.

Scientifically proven it's for attention. Sometimes it's a cry for help.
Sometimes it's a Sociopathic teenager in the making.

You're either an attention seeker or a liar. Pick one

I shit because I must!

I was 14, I'm 25 now. I was an idiot back then and had emotional issues, to the point where I was taking anti-depressants.

How is your life now?

Shit man I just think it feels great. I cut my hips, not for attention

This. People misunderstand masochism completely. Suicide and masochism are on two different sides of the self harm coin. The masochist doesn't want to die necessarily, but wants to experience physical pain as a way of balancing, coping with emotional pain. The suicidal can't find a way to cope with the emotional pain and therefore wants to die in order to end all pain. There are plenty of painful ways to die but the suicidal normally looks for something painless or brief (e.g. gunshot, medical overdose) instead.
Granted, I'm not an expert.

It's where he makes all the toys.