Does anyone on here self harm?

i used to but i have now stopped and would like to share all my wisdom on how to stop :)

No. I may be depressed sometimes, but I'm far too cowardly to actually hurt myself in a serious way. I've done things like scratch myself with my nails, but nothing beyond that.

Self harming is bad. I've seen a site where people post pictures of their wounds and be proud of it. It's horrible. How can you be proud if you harm yourself. I think you're seriously sick in your head if you're proud about it. I mean, sure, you can do it if you have problems but damn, you shouldn't be proud of it and you sure as hell shouldn't be posting pictures of it.

I've never self-harmed myself. I don't see how physical pain can help ease emotional pain

Maybe you can explain that to me starry_mind, and also how you managed to stop.

Both of my ex's did and I literially bit their head off. That's how I was able to get them to stop. :D

you bit their heads off, killing them, so they couldn't hurt themselves?


and I don't do that stuff. xD

Nope, I don't do it and I'm not planing on doing it anything time soon.

As I understand it, for some, the physical pain serves as a distraction from the overwhelming emotional pain they are feeling. For others, like myself in a way, it serves as an outlet for the aggression/emotional pain. When I hurt myself, I don't take out my feelings on others.

And then there's always that nagging feeling that really, I do deserve the pain I've put myself through, both emotional and physical.

But that's kind of a different story. XD

i don't see why hurting yourself cause your depressed but i agree about the distraction of depression i used to do it on my head i have a scar from someone smashed a bottle on my head and i peeled it and made it bleed so yea i could say i used to harm myself

I know a lot of poeple who have been though this. It's very tough, you know. I know there's a lackah band method...

I've actually know people into self mutilation and even though I've never understood the appeal myself I have done it twice just to see what exactly my friends saw in it. Didn't understand then, and I still don't understand now. Depressed or not it inflicting injuries upon onesself does little to solve or reslove emotional pain. Soon enough it always comes back, and sooner or later it will lead to versions of self hatred that may result in suicide. Remember those friends I mentioned; one dead, two in hospital from blood loss.

How stange that life still moves on...

I tired it once when I was a lot younger and I didn't really get why people did it. Its seems pretty pointless to hurt yourself just because you have problems. They only reason I came up with is to "Focus the pain somewhere else" which is pretty silly.

Don't really understand it. I would never do it. And I see suicide as religious sin.

never did it.. ive had friends who did... i never saw a point to it. i'm a chicken and i hate pain.. so haha.

I know a lot of people have and still do. I never have though. The doctors in the hospital make me hurt enough.

I can't see how self harming helps anyone

well i couldn't see the point even not untill my ex boyfriend showed me how to cut with out losing to much blood. He said to me that if i didn't cut then he would dump me and at the time i was going through some trouble at home :(

what kind of asswipe says that to there girlfriend its stupid self harm or i dump you thats just stupid srry for dissing him but he is a moron ¬_¬

no i am glad you think that of him. But i was stuck in that situation it is quite hard to decide what to do. I knew if i didn't he would do worst things to me :(

i just hate when others put people in that prediciment it annoys me

srry for ranting :eh

no you carry on i like listening to other peoples point of veiws :)

People who self harm themself mean that they want some pity or they can never really kill themselves.

I agree with that.

And about self-harming, I've never done it, unless you count smoking and eating my mother's food as some way of self harming, otherwise I havent.

Theres no point on self harming.

Does the daily dosage of morphine count as harming ones self?

Yeah drugs are bad for you. Why do you do it ( If may know)

No way. I don't need the 'battle scars' to prove that something like that has happened. I may feel depressed at times, and I certainly feel like there's just a long stretch of 'blah' feeling every day, but I don't feel the need to physically hurt myself. I don't see what having the extra physical scars proves anyway, besides being a person with a lot of problems, or who just likes to.

I never really did the physical stuff such as cutting, but I probably did alternatives like maybe stuff my face with food when I get sad? I soon learned that hurting others (ex. multiplayer video games) is much fun than hurting myself.

I slap myself in the face for humorous reasons, but that's it. :P

I used to self harm as a teenager, as for me it felt like the only way out and it also made me feel better. I had respect for my body, but couldn't care less what happened to it, at the times that I did self harm. I began to notice, that I did not like seeing the cuts and scars on my arms after I did it, and it actually made me scared. One day, just before attempting to do it again, I stopped myself and haven't done anything ever since. It wasn't hard at all, it was just a matter of realising the truth, and looking beyond the mental barrier that was blocking my real self of what was going on. Once I acknowledged and understood that I noticed, that if the thought of cutting came into mind, I would not let it surface, and instead let go of it. Made me feel a whole lot better, as I never thought about it again or even acted on it.

I never harmed myself. But it's also like Daffy Duck says [for me]: "I hate pain it hurts me." I'm the same as Daffy & I'll admit to it :)

I use to take glue guns and play with them because I'm just sick like that.

It's hard to see, but there is something 'therapeutic' about harming yourself. See..
The physical pain helps to distract from the emotional pain. Sometimes the emotional pain is so strong that those who cut do it deeply. Eventually it starts to feel good, like they don't realize that it hurts. It makes them feel better because the physical pain doesn't compare to the emotional pain.

Some people, though, cut themselves because the gashes represent the emotional wounds, and watching them heal helps to envision the mental wounds to go away as well.

I'm not saying that it's a good thing. It is a problem. Cutters just don't know that they are making things worse.

I know a girl, she self harms by slitting her wrists, she does it for one reason only, attention. I'm not saying everyone does it for that reason, but the sad thing is, she even admits she does it to get her parents attention, and to get people to notice her.

Nope,I don't see the point of it.

I'm afraid to cut myself. I have done it on accident a couple of times. It hurts.

No, pain hurts.

I don't do it, and I can't see how people can do it.

It's not right in my opinion. Why hurt yourself? Why not just put that time and effort you put into hurting yourself into fixing the problem(s) you have?

It's pretty stupid and a very ... wtf method.

"Oh am in pain! Let me cut myself! That should heal everything and make it all better!"

NO.

Suck it up, sort it out, stop being a p*ssy (Y)

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Not at all, you cant say that until youve helped someone through it.