Addictions Continuing in Pain
Self-Mutilation Addictions
Gaining more power, a self-injurer may injure themselves as a way of empowering themselves. It makes the person feel strong and in control by enduring the pain that they inflict on themselves...
Addictions to pain are far more dangerous than any other addiction in the world. The pain is often worse than the victim leaves anyone to believe. Self-mutilation is often for the reason to escape reality and/or mental suffering, yet the addicts will find pleasure from causing pain to self.
Some self-mutilators will cause harm to self in an effort to seek attention. The person often wants someone to feel sorry for him or her, and will cause pain to self. In rare instances, the mutilation leads to death and most times because the person accidentally cuts deeper than he/she intended. The sensations these people feel often causes adrenaline to rush, which causes an addiction to occur. Therefore, we need to view many details of pain addictions, or self-mutilation addictions before considering why these people do what they do.
Pain addicts pain often use self-mutilation in an effort to avoid expectations placed on them by family, life in whole, or school. Sometimes living up to expectations is more than a person can stand. At what time the person self-mutilation, it causes the adrenaline to rush to brain producing a high affect. This is more than often sufficient, and the addict will not go further until the next time the high as needed.
In some instances, death results stemming from the symptoms brought on by the addiction. Once the person tires out from suffering, he/she might result, or act on suicidal tendencies which are often brought on by depression. Depression triggers deep-seated emotions, which in turn leads to death. Self-mutilators will slice their wrists; slice their arms, legs, and other parts of the body, including the neck. If suicidal tendencies exist sometimes, the addict will not tell anyone. For this reason, this addiction is highly, above average, dangerous. Still, most persons suffer in these addictions focused on gaining attention, were filling the need that was never filled. This then is an escape mechanism that provides pleasure, yet the pleasure is superficial.
Accidents can happen, especially if the person cuts deeper than he intended, and is scared to let anyone know. This person might take care of the problem on his/her own, believing that they can resolve the issue, yet fear entraps the mind, and a person is controlled by the emotions. A fatal mistake!
Anyone suffering from any type of addiction, mental disorder, depression, etc, is lacking the ability to stay in touch with the mind, i.e. the person functions on emotions. When a person functions on emotions, the person is placing self in a dangerous situation, and is vulnerable to others.
Teenagers are often the ones addicted to pain. Teenagers caught up in peer pressure, Satanism, were trapped in the world of illusion will often resort to addictions to relieve suffering.
Pain addicts will often feel edgy, unnerved, stressed, and will experience depression often. The addicts will often cause harm to self to relieve common symptoms brought on by stressors, i.e. these persons have the inability to cope with life and its expectations. Therefore, we are looking at an inability to cope, which is found in many disorders, addictions, and in life itself while we look at pain addictions.
According to few pain addictions is often backed by borderline personality disorders (BPD), which is one of the most dangerous disorders in the listing of mental health. BPD patients often feel abandoned, and will often do anything even if it hurt someone else, or self to gain control. What self-injurer can to help themselves. Find out why you hurt yourself and then what triggers you to hurt yourself. Stay away from the triggers as much as you can.
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