"I have been cut free for two years" For some reason, I find that hilarious.

So you haven't fallen or scraped your knee in two years?

If someone cuts themselves they're ******* idiots. It doesn't do any good, people just make fun of you for being emo, you are more tired cause your body has to heal, and everyone knows you're a psychotic ****. and have you ever noticed only girls cut ? just give them a vaccuum to take their mind off it. geeze.

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A) The urge to self-harm is a psychological problem, not a sign of idiocy. B) There is no correlation between being tired and cutting. Lethargy can result from depression, which could be a/the cause behind someone cutting, but cutting =/ tired. C) "Psychosis" is a mental disorder. It is something someone suffers from, not something someone is. D) The idea that only girls/women suffer from mental problems (e.g. the urge to self-harm, eating disorders, etc.) is archaic and naive. Just because you've never met a male cutter doesn't mean they don't exist. E) As for the idea that housework helps anything, I'd like to leave you a little quote from Simone de Beauvoir, "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day."

Oh, and in order to make this a valiant attempt at the longest comment ever, I forgot to add something... Cutting *does* do something for the people doing it. Might I direct you to these happy little things called endorhpins? Endorhpins are released under various circumstances - cutting is one of them. They're like the body's own natural "drug", and, like any other drug, have the potential to be "addictive" (in the sense that people will often continue behaviors which release endorphins in order to get that "high"). I've never met someone who said they didn't like feeling "high" (ignoring any other consequences), and as endorphins give you a (toned-down) "high", I don't think you can say they "don't do anything". Anyways...

i had a boyfriend who used to cut, don't be a moron. but he was a psycho. OP-i don't really see why this girl would say this right away. that is kind of weird. most people would keep that to themselves or wait until you know each other very very well. so she could be looking for attention or maybe she wants help, but i don't see why she would go to you for help instead of someone she knows better. in any case, she needs some sort of help but she does not need a boyfriend. it will mess her up more because you won't want to be with her forever most likely, and just being around her will probably make you depressed too. so talk to her and get her help and then leave. people threaten suicide a lot and never do it, but then some people never say they will and just do. so don't take it lightly, but don't stay with her just so she won't kill herself. that would be a horrible relationship.