Cutting One's Self and Depression...an Oxymoron???

[Zucas]

Sorcery said:

ironman said:

tedsteriscool said:

Cutting one's self is a way of numbing the pain. In a sense they're bleeding their pain away.

But as I said in the OP. Pain reminds us we are alive. People who want to die, should not be trying to remind themselves that they are alive. Am I right?

By inflicting physical pain, a depressed person is blotting out their emotional pain.

This.  Although I'll never fully understand how that helps, they do it in hopes of one pain blotting out another.  Kinda how in painful situations at a doctor's office you'll squeeze your arm or leg tightly in hoping you'll focus on that pain rather than another.  But there has to be a better way of dealing with these things than doing as such.  Well I know there is a better way haha.