Physical urges??(may trigger)

I don't know how to explain this or if it is physical...but i get these urges to cut...it kinda feels like surges of blood through my veins..if that makes any sense?? I call them physical urges because i can't think of anything else to call them..

does anyone else experience this?

Claire x

I will answer you with YES.

Every once in awhile I get this incredible urge to harm myself. It arrives out of the blue. I don't know where this comes from. On a good note, recently I had that urge, and a thought stopped me. I still don't know where the thought came from, but the thought was.... "DON"T DO IT, IT IS NOT YOUR FAULT". I still don't know where this thought came from, but it did help. I did not hurt myself. And I am grateful for that.

<font color=white>laughter really is the best medicine</font color=white>

yes i get those urges.... and usually when they happen is when i havent cut in over a week... i dont know why they come but they doo... To me i feel a interest in one section of my arm and then i feel the numb ness coming over the spot.. i usually fight the urge but sometimes i do harm my self right out of nowhere..

its weird huh?

Yeah, it's very weird, and it makes me feel really horrible...it was worst on holiday because i felt really anxious but i couldnt tell my boyfriend what was wrong, cause i didnt wanna ruin the holiday and therefore obviously couldn't act upont he urges, which madei t even worse.

It's a realy really strange feeling!

When I am at my worst I will feel a sensation of pressure on my wrists. This freaks me out.
Carrie

<font color=blue>If you have two dollars, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will feed your body and the flowers will feed your soul."--Arabic Saying

Yeah...i usually get it like mid-loweer arm and then it moves down.it creeps me out.

I get these too. For me it feels like electrical impulses in my arms. I'm not aware of any other triggers than these impulses. Another way to describe them would be it feels like my skin is crawling. sometimes I can't resist, but usually I try to find something else to do.

does anyone know why this happens?

<font color=blue>If you have two dollars, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will feed your body and the flowers will feed your soul."--Arabic Saying

My best guess would be that we get more concious of those areas because that's where we cut. Even if we aren't specifically thinking of cutting there, I think the areas that we generally do cut may become linked in our brains to the impulse (or even thoughts that make us start to have that impulse) in or brains to cut. Does that make any sense at all? lol

It is just a guess, though. I've never read anything on it. Although I think I have experienced it. Just never thought about it much before.

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