Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Self Injury: Do I need to seek medical help for recent cuts on my leg?

I cut myself with a one bladed Bic razor about two or three days ago (please don't preach to me about the harm of self-injury or tell me to stop - I'm well aware of this and have been engaging in S.I. for eight years and am in cognitive behavioral therapy and on a couple drugs for my depression so I don't need anymore help there) on the inside of my lower leg. It bled quite a bit - but this I'm used to. It still seems to be oozing a clear uncolored or yellowish liquid though that tends to be sticky and attract fibers from my clothing. Is this safe? Is it okay for the fibers to get stuck there? I'm picking them out but off comes a scab-like material as well, so I don't know if I'm doing more harm than good. Sorry if this is gross, I'm pretty desensitized to it now but this has never really happened to me before, I usual scab and heal up pretty quickly. Any advice regarding this injury would be appreciated, thank you for reading. <3

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