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ATTN: This is an update from my last post, but in a way, it's a new subject altogether. Please bare with me.
WARNING: Graphic images are contained in this cut. If you have a queezy stomach in the least, please refrain from reading on.
Well, this is my 2nd day living with the scars from my first true cutting experience. I swear it won't happen again, but I'm afraid I'll never be allowed to forget it either. Since I have anxiety problems and stress problems, I've convinced myself that I'm going to be scarred deeply by this. My mother and her boyfriend said that once the redness goes away, it will all fade, but all the cutters I've asked said that it will most likely scar and stay scarred for a long time.
I figured It would be best to come here and get some second opinions. It would really help me out here. What I've been doing is constantly cleaning the wound and applying hydrogen peroxide, vaseline, and now neosporin to keep it from scabbing up and to ensue it's moisturized. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.
Since I'm very unfamiliar with cuts and how deep people generally cut and with what, I'm unsure if my situation is really serious or not. I don't know how long it takes for these cuts to heal, or for the redness to go down, or for the cuts to form into scars, or anything of that nature. So I'm hoping you can provide me with those answers.
This is a picture of what my arm looked like around this morning:
After some cleaning and adding neosporin, this is what it looks like now, around 12 hours later...
To me it looks mostly just like redness and swelling if you ask me.
But, then again, I'm no real expert at this at all -- remember?
The problem is that when I wear short sleeve shirts, it is visible as a bright pink patch right now. And this horrifies me because summer is here, and not only that, I don't want to live my life having to hide this. So my questions are:
1. Is this going to scar at all?
2. How bad are the scars going to be and what are they going to look like?
3. Do mostly all cuts turn into scars?
4. How long does it take for this kind of thing to heal, and how long until the scars form?
I am so sorry for the new post. But I am just so horrified/upset that I'm going to resemble a freak, and I am desperately in need of these answers right now. Thank you.