You are in Women, Men, Aging . If you get the proper professional care and treatment, there's a good chance you can stop cutting yourself. If you get the proper professional care and treatment, there's a good chance you can stop cutting yourself. No single kind of treatment works for everyone.
Some people injure themselves to release tension or anger.
Some find injuring themselves takes their mind off an underlying depression or anxiety. Some say it's the only way they can get people to pay attention to how much emotional pain they are in. Still others hurt themselves because they hear voices commanding them to. Survivors of Abuse Many people who injure themselves have a history of being abused early in life. For some of these people, this behavior is a way of transforming an emotional pain they can't control into a physical pain they can, to some degree.