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I personally don`t care about my scars...I have a Middle sized cut beside my mouth from when I was like...3 I think

Ohww :[
Do they at least help with the anxiety?
My girlfriend has an anxiety disorder too.
I know how debilitating and hard they can be, so you have my sympathies.

I want to tell you that if someone hates those scars but they care about you enough,romantically or otherwise,they'll look past those scars.if you cutting yourself is the physical embodiment of whatever emotional scarring you may have,they will want to help you recover from whatever trauma you may have/had.and if you're not comfortable talking about those scars and how they got there and why to other people,even if it's the one person you love and trust the most,then you shouldn't HAVE to talk about it unless it's to a psychologist who is trying to help you.i've cut myself out of destructive self-harm urges when being super-upset and even out of curiosity and i have BFFs who cut,used to cut,or cut on and off,so,from the compassionate perspective of a loving friend,i always tell my cutting friends that the least they can do for me if they won't stop cutting is always make sure to sanitize their sharp objects before harming themselves,not to do it too often or too deep(as in,if it's more than a few times a day or it's gushing blood,NOT GOOD),and to cut across the wrist instead of down the wrist so that the doctors will actually stitch it up and fix it if something goes too horribly.but it is ALWAYS a good idea to go get help and stop cutting yourself.if you need an almost anonymous help "hotline",you can call 1-800-LOVE-191 every Sunday through Friday night.Dr Drew,Psycho Mike,and Simone Bienne will be MORE than happy to talk to you for a bit and help you in any way they can.they give MANY people advice all the time and they can give you some,too.do keep in mind that this is the number for Love Line,a radio show, and that i typed the number off of memory,so if it doesn't work when you call, you can always go to lovelineshow.com ,where they are more than likely to have the number.

I'm still kind of young, so haven't really gotten around to the whole "sexual" business with my boyfriend yet sweatdrop . Anyway, I'm posting here because I have a hell of a lot of scars from an infection I had as a kid. I have them on my lower back, right shoulder and both legs. Is there any way of maybe getting rid of them? I tried asking my doctor, but she was no help scream

Some might say I'm the "lucky one" because, yes I used to cut but all my scars are gone. I have none, all i have are the painful memories. To me if a guy cant exept a girl for who she is, scars and all, than they need some growing up to do. I am only 17 right now but I have gone through some hard times and most adults look at me thinking "You are to young to know what hard times are." To tell the truth that I see, yes people who lived during the great depression had hard times but that was then and this is now. Money was a big facture back then but nowadays money is only part. Nowadays its all about looks, personality, if you play a sport, and how much money you have. Every one has their scars, some peoples scars might not be seen but they have them, they might be phisical, like internal as in in their liver or lungs, or emotinal like depression. What I am trying to say is dont be scared that someone wont like your scars be proud of them because that means you where able to be saved from yourself. Some are not saved, they keep hurting their body and some die from that, some dont get to live to see what is on the other side of the dark tunnel, some just dont get to see the light of a happier life. They just dont live long enough. Dont hide your scars for they are a badge of what you have been through, they are your purple hearts (if you dont know what I mean, a purple heart is given to a millitary personal who was injured in the heat of battle, it is a very hard to get mettel for it has alot of criteria that they have to meet in order to even be considered for it) thus is why you should not be ashamed of them or be scared that someone will not like you because of them. Just think if your scars as the Purple Heart awarded for getting through the battle of life, the battle that some kids dont make it through.

I have a lot of acne scars. Just spreading co-co butter over them and doing my best not to peel them as often. Oatmeal soap in tandem with a soap softener like dove sensitive skin, then I spread co-co butter on my chest. Hoping within the year they will go away and will update in about 6 months to note how much the scars went away.

I won't recommend talking to someone like a shrink because from my experience most currently want to make their patients dependent on medications.