It all depends on your skin and how deep you cut and how you treat the wounds immediately after. If you have skin that heals rather quickly, and you don't cut too deep, chances are that within a year, your scars will fade to an unnoticeable amount. I was lucky, personally, I recover extremely fast from injuries, and my scars were almost invisible in as little as half a year. They completely went away. However, one time I did go over board, cutting again and again in spots that have been cut, and after three years, the scars still stand bold. However, they have faded by a large amount and I hope they will go away in a couple more years. So back to you, it seems that though there is a rather large possibility that your scars will NOT go away completely, I reassure you that they will fade, and if you're lucky, they will disappear completely as new layers of skin grow on. Remember, there is always hope.
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Originally Posted by gon3withth3wend
I'm feeling extremely terrible about myself right now. Cutting is a relatively new thing for me (Not a whole year where I've actually been deliberately breaking skin with other objects), and I want to stop before it gets really bad. I have a lot of scars on my hip, and then one day I realized that the scars on my hip meant that my body in swimsuits would look terrible, and then doctors would notice, and any of my future partners would notice. So then I moved to my arms, where I could cover it, but I realized covering my arms was harder than I thought. I've spent so many days feeling really self conscious. I want them to go away. I don't think anyone has realized yet. But I want the scars to go away! I keep on reading that they don't, and I really don't want to believe that. I think I might have made it worse by cutting over scars after they already start to heal also. I want to stop and fix it before people find out, before it gets bad. Is there really no way to make them go away, or make them a lot less noticeable? I used to be so happy that unlike other girls, I had no stretch marks or body imperfections. I know it sounds terrible, I always thought, no matter how unhappy I was, "At least I'm still pretty". And I've been taking that away from myself. Sorry. I'm venting now. I really just want to know if there is a way to get the scars to go away, and if there is anything that I may be tempted to do that is unsafe. I have a type of bleach that I used on my face for acne scarring, but I'm not sure if I can start putting it on cuts that are still kind of open.
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