scarification

yeah i was wondering what people here think about scarification.. i've done my own a couple of designs and i really enjoy doing it. people i know think that theres something wrong with my mental health but i get a thrill out of the blood and the mark that it leaves.
do any of you have any?
what do you think about scarification?

 

I have some scarification on my ankle.. but there is a difference between scarification and cutting due to mental health issues..

I think that scarification can be a beautiful thing as long as it is done in the right mind set.
I've seen people who are cutters call their marks scarification, but it's not.. it's completely different!

 

I sliced my chest open with a power grinder last week at work, totally by accident of course, a couple inches below my left nipple and the cut runs paralel with my ribs so it looks bitchin. I probably should have got a couple of stiches but I'm just letting it heal up on it's own so I'll get a cool scar...

...I don't think that counts though does it?

 

if you get stiches you can get a cool scar, imo it almost always just looks bad if you just let it heal up... But do as you please, if you want it even better try to rub some oil in it

 

i did some on my wrist in the shape of a peace sign and its really small and i filled it with purple tattoo ink. it looks ok but i was stoned and i need to go over it cause it could be better

 

I think the rough, un-stiched, gorry job related accident look is what I'm going for though

 

i got a moon on my leg, that i need to go over again soon

 

I cut a mushroom into my hip bone and rubbed india ink into it.

I have scars from cutting. Those I am hardly proud of.

 

i think cutting is just a trend and ive never done it or needed to.... but i do remember once when i was 13 writing 'suffer in my name' on my arm with a sharpener blade in an art classs..and i look back on that and think.. what the fuck was going on in my head????????????????

i think it just felt good.. but i dont why and i never did it again.. wired though....

 

i don't think cutting is a trend, however i do think it is stupid. but scars look cool. I dont really like designs typically, but maybe i just haven't seen the right one.

 

i think it depends on the reasons why someone is cutting, if it is to escape life or sistuations those are wronge reasons same with branding,branding or cutting to put your mind in a different relm of concesness for serten reasons is fine,i think that bodymods like cutting and branding are misunderstood people say there trying to hurt themslef becuase they hate there bodys or they need to escape be it heroin/sex/cutting ot whatever they put it all in the same catagory with out even thinking there maybe other reason that might actuly have a posative side,i brand for designs also for the endorphines i have a half moon on my leg(which is fading and needs redoing)i also have 2, 2 inch long burn marks on my arm only three people know i brand,i will no tell anyone else because they will get the wronge idea

 

it totally is a trend... and to do with growing up.. you're redefining who you are.. and making a physical statement about your indivuduality.. it doesnt go much further than that.. but its what peopl do in tribes all over the world.. coming of age..and they marjk it with scars or right s of passage into adulthood...

 

i kind of agree with you on some parts but to call it a "trend" realy isnt the right word,also what about adults who do it i know there are some that just dont cut and brand but also play pericing and many other bodymods that have the same perpous and outcome,and i dont know about making a statement either i think most people dont puplicly display those types of things,they dont walk around saying hey theses marks are from me cutting myslef...most people keep ot private or only in a close circle of firends,also if people have been doing this for thousands of year and its part of trible culture is one long "trend",people have wore clothes for thousands of years i dont think thats a "trend"

 

actually i think that tradition and trend are the same thing.. theyre both copying right?!

the thing with cutting your wriss or legs and that.. i havent done it.. but i do find it repulsive and the point of it seems to be... 'look at me, im tough/deep'

and the poeple who do it are the types of people who are not every open about their true feelings, they will try to impress you by subtly showing you scars or cuts, and then expcet you not to say anythign and be horrified or in awe of their mystique.. anyway.. whenever someone subtly shows me their scars or bandages i say.. 'oohh god... not you as well...' and leave in disgust , i also will probably not talk to them again..

its just not impressive

 

i tihnk the word trend implys a short term "fade" type thing which this is not, tradtion is a much better word and i dont think you understand what the actul point of cutting or anything like that is, when you cut your wrists like trying to cut your veins thats a totaly different issue and has nothing to do ritual cutting,the point isnt to impress,see people who show off their cuts like that are doing it for attention which is one of the wronge reasons for cutting but to talk about it with other people isnt,maybe you dont understand the point and judge people as soon as you find out not even looking at the rest of the person same if they where a sertin religion or have different lifestyle, what "oohh god your gay... not you as well" and leave in disgust,your making a judgement on one fact,you dont have to do it but putting everyone down for it and saying is bad and disgusting and they have something wronge with them just because they do it, once again not everyone does it for the right reason but what about those who do,i see more wronge with most people who dont have a open mind out things like this

 

it IS .. for attention... there are a million ways to harm or hate yourself.. and cutting.. is a very obvious one.. that people will deifnately see and notice.. and are supposedto react to..
im not rrying to be inhumane about peoples suffering.. i just find that cut wrists and parading bandages is a modern way of sayng, 'without words' look at me,im suffering and i want you all to know just how bad it is....

people do this evreyone does it, in differnt ways.. that is why i specifically dont find cutting impressive..becuase it seems to be a silent maniuplaitve way of getting the attention they need..in another respect, the person may not be able to expres their needs.. and thats a different stoy.. maybe it s the only way they know of expressing their pain... but i still find it a statement of belonging... a fashion to the youth of our genration.

 

im aksaing you or anyone who does it to consider when they are doing it... why they are doign it and what they hope the result will be.

 

that is an incredible generalization. i cut for 4 years of my life and only the people i wanted to see it saw it. cutting releases endorphins in your body which creates a mild euphoria that temporarily decreases depression. it isn't always for attention, though in can be. It is an act of someone emotionally immature though, i don't do it anymore because i've learned better ways to handle my problems.

 

Well, when thirteen year olds scratch themselves with safety pins then run around in sleeveless shirts, shoving their wrists in people's faces... then yes, they're attention whores and probably also wear stupid bondage pants and listen to Korn and think about how much life sucks and how their "cutting" is entirely justified.

 

The sad thing is that sounds like typical high school bull-shit to me....SO many kids at my school did that...thank god for college..I couldnt take the faux-angst any more