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Can cutting really turn into a TRUE addiction?

Issue
I've been cutting for 7 years, and now I am at the point that I need stitches all the time, and I have even severed tendons. Sometimes I don't even have a real reason to cut, besides I feel I need to. I try to not cut, but I get to the point that I can't function until I give in. Has my cutting turned into an addiction, and if so, what should I do about it?

Best Tip

You need to go to rehab, just like any other addict. Addiction is just the way some people deal with life. When they can't handle things that happen to them, they drink, use drugs, stop eating, make themselves throw up, cut themselves, gamble, etc. Anything to get rid of the pain of life. That is what addiction is. A way to make the pain go away. And yet it doesn't work, does it?

Others
Yes.

Since you have been doing it for 7 years now I'd say you are a prime example.
Of course this is an addition now, and I'm afraid you are in serious danger. You must go to a docotor and talk about this problem and hopefully get into a treatment center for this.
Stop listening to Marylin Manson
See a doctor-now. Or a schrink. It's confidential and you don't want to ruin your body that way. What will you tell your kids and future partners.... It sounds like an addiction and you need help asap
It is not a addiction problem as much as it is a self-mutilation problem. Please seek help!.
Really mate, it IS an addiction. A serious one. Its really not healthy to be doing that. I used to do it, but i literally did it just 3 times and i realised how stupid it was. you can lose so much blood, you can cut arteries, tendons, ligaments, muscles etc. Plus its a really emo thing to do. But i really suggest you stop, its the sort of thing people really judge you on. You should get psychiatric help. Please, for yourself.