Have you ever self-harmed before?

Started by starseed galaxy auticorn January 26th, 2014 11:44 AM
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I know I have, many times. I would pull a tack from my wall and try to scrape my wrist with it, then pick at it until it left a scar. x_x I haven't done it in a while though. I've gotten a lot better with medication and my music since then. It usually due to the overbearing and disabling anxiety I had. It caused me to be very depressed and down all of the time.

So, one day I told my psychiatrist about it by explaining to him what was happening to me on my iPad. He prescribed me with abilify, and I haven't had any of those thoughts ever since.

This is different from the suicide thread, but I did get the idea from it. XD

Anyway, what about you? You don't have to say why you did it either, but if you've recovered... to say how since it might help someone else who is still doing it.

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Oh goodness no. I can't even handle a paper cut. I have absolutely no idea why people self harm and what "benefits" it has for them. As far as I can see, you're just left with two scars now instead of one when you decide to harm yourself physically. Not to mention the further psychological problems self harm causes for the poor soul.

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Never brought myself to it, but I have held knives over wrists, my neck, even. But I never brought myself to it. I always just think that the physical pain could turn into a permanent solution to a temporary problem. You could cut yourself in a certain spot, and cut one of the larger veins in your wrist, and bleed to death. I've always thought that Anxiety is one of the worst mental disorders to have to deal with, right under depression (Which can actually be a side effect of anxiety.), and the overall worst, Schizophrenia. Social Anxiety is only really a problem when in a public situation, but it can get to you when you're alone. I'll never self-harm. People at school still seem to get Scene and Emo confused. I might be wrong be considering them to be different, but I consider scene to be emo, without actually having a serious emotional instability or emotional problem in general. I'm definitely one of the two, and probably straddle the line between them, but I don't have a very serious emotional problem, but do have a disorder that makes it hard to talk to people, and causes me to go into small spurts of emotional breakdown. It's confusing. But, no. I've never self-harmed and hopefully never will. The physical pain only temporarily takes your mind of the emotional pain, even though emotional pain is much easier to deal with.
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Yeah I have and I still do, when I get overly stressed out I end up scratching or pulling my hair. It sounds counter intuitive but when you don't know how to get your stress out it helps. It's something that's not good, that's obvious enough, but that's why it happens. I once tried a knife lol not doing that again, it's not very effective and it's more ******** than it's worth.

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Oh goodness no. I can't even handle a paper cut. I have absolutely no idea why people self harm and what "benefits" it has for them. As far as I can see, you're just left with two scars now instead of one when you decide to harm yourself physically. Not to mention the further psychological problems self harm causes for the poor soul.
People do it because they think it relieves the emotional pain. It's almost like taking medicine to help a cold. It provides the person with a sense of temporary relief. Sure, it's not a good thing, but it eventually becomes an addiction for the person if they don't stop. Most people do it because they come from broken families. They could be a disgrace to their family and be totally unloved by them. They could hate their bodies, suffer from depression and try to hurt themselves to ease their pain.

...I don't really know how to explain it very well. ><

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People do it because they think it relieves the emotional pain. It's almost like taking medicine to help a cold. It provides the person with a sense of temporary relief. Sure, it's not a good thing, but it eventually becomes an addiction for the person if they don't stop. Most people do it because they come from broken families. They could be a disgrace to their family and be totally unloved by them. They could hate their bodies, suffer from depression and try to hurt themselves to ease their pain.

...I don't really know how to explain it very well. ><
I would explain it like this:

When your very stressed, you need to relieve the stress. When you're depressed you want to relieve the depression. Depression is different from stress in the way that stress is emotional or physical pressure. Depression is a deep feeling of sadness. It makes you feel like all hope you have for living is completely gone. It's a medical condition, too. The emotional pain of depression can get to be to much. Physical pain is more prominent in the mind, so it takes your over the emotional pain, and makes you forget about it for a while, until the physical pain is gone. It's a really bad way to relieve emotional pain, but people do it, and I would never judge someone for it, considering I've come close to it.
That's how you explain self-harm. It's a VERY temporary half-fix to a temporary problem. It creates an even worse problem, that people don't realize when they hurt themselves on purpose.
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I've never hurt myself before, but I have friends who hurt themselves. It's unbearable to see. So, to those contemplating it, here's the number to National Suicide Hotline:

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nopenopenope. I have thought of it, but i was too scared to follow through. Besides, the scars make me uglier than I am now, so it doesn't really change anything
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I never have and never will. I get hurt enough from accidents. xD Self inflicting pain would just add to the amount of scars I have. Which I do not need. lol Plus, I don't like pain. Low tolerance for it. And I respect myself enough. So...yeah :p

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People do it because they think it relieves the emotional pain. It's almost like taking medicine to help a cold. It provides the person with a sense of temporary relief. Sure, it's not a good thing, but it eventually becomes an addiction for the person if they don't stop. Most people do it because they come from broken families. They could be a disgrace to their family and be totally unloved by them. They could hate their bodies, suffer from depression and try to hurt themselves to ease their pain.

...I don't really know how to explain it very well. ><
But it doesn't relieve the emotional pain. It just distracts you from it, and it eventually adds to it psychologically.

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Depends how much you weould call self-harm.

If you just mean cutting, no, I haven't done it before, but I came very close a few years ago when I was severely depressed. However, in the past I've done things like punch myself on the side of my face as hard as I could when I was very depressed or stressed out; it never left a mark though, and thankfully, no-one knows I've ever done it before. Most people wouldn't consider that self-harm in the traditional sense.

I was too much of a cloyster those years ago to self-harm anyways, and I'm thankful for it. Allowed me to tackle my issues head-on.
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I never have, I don't have the heart to do that to myself, I enjoy life and want to enjoy it as long as possible. Even in the worst of times I could never harm myself.

The only thing that comes close to me is not because I want to but to improve my life (diabetes sucks - I have to prick my finger twice a day and check the sugars in my blood).

I have a younger brother who did cut himself many times, once deep that he almost cut his vein, back when he was obsessed with "Emo" culture & music.
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I strongly considered it at times, but I never acted on the thoughts and I'm getting a little better with my depression recently.
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I've always been freaked out at the concept of self harm. Especially cutting yourself and ESPECIALLY anywhere near your wrists. I used to be scared of people who dressed up like goths and emos because I thought they were crazy people with knives. Although I no longer view them as "crazy people with knives" the thought of cutting myself and intentional self harm still freaks me out. No, just no.

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The only type of harmful pain I've done to myself is accidental. Such as one time I was using a pair of scissors really swiftly and in the long run one of the blades wound up cutting into my left index finger, and it left a mark for a few weeks.

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I've done it once a long time ago, I ****** up big time with a friend and decided to punish myself. Long story short I took my skinning knife to my shins, and my friend found out. I'm never going to do it again period.
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Oh no not at all. I would never have the courage to go through it. As Ace said , I never got the reason why people cut themselves. How is putting yourself in physical pain going to relieve your emotional pain? I always thought it would make that pain worse. I just don't think self-harm is worth it at all. Why I know depression can be awful, I think they're better ways such as talking with someone cause I'm sure there's more people in your life who care enough and love you than you think. Life gets better. Hurting or killing yourself isn't worth the pain you cause to yourself and you cause to others. If your family and friends can't help you enough, then I suggest you call the hotlines ZangFloyd posted.
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I've never done any purposeful harm to myself. There's always the accident where you cut yourself with scissors, but I've never done any of that intentionally. I've been close, that's for sure, but didn't go through with it in the end. Looking back, I'm glad I didn't do it. :)
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When I was still in school years ago I once accidentally cut my finger when preparing food. And there were times where I smashed into my apartment's wall when I was like, in a very bad mood. The wall did get patched up but it's not very perfect anymore. It was because I got bullied by my brother and I always tend to erupt when it happens.
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I have never self-harmed.

I wouldn't ever think such things, unless something like biting my fingernail counts; I used to be guilty of that.
I'm still guilty of that. XD

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I'm big against stuff like cutting yourself, but I'll be 100% honest when I say that I don't think it's the idea of harming yourself that bothers me (though it is a big reason). Regarding cutting, I think it's the fact that it's drawn out. I've harmed myself by slamming my fist and head into walls. It's rare, and only happens when I'm completely unhinged at something (fist has happened a few times, head only maybe 3 or 4 times?). I mean seriously hard, too, near blackout. Never did blackout, but it would hurt. And no one would see the scars. It's dumb though, and I've only done it when I wasn't thinking at all straight, and have felt very meek about my actions afterwards. Hypocritical even. Don't harm yourself.
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I didn't know what self-harm was until this year, I was really sheltered.

No I have not ever done this, for a few reasons.
1. I'm content with who I am.
2. I'm a wimp and would never go through with it.
3. I'm aichmophobic.
4. It doesn't make sense in my eyes.

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Well if banging your head against the wall on purpose out of frustration or hitting yourself on the face counts than I've done both of those things , though I'm sure we've all done that at one point. I don't do it often though. I'm still very much against self-harm such as cutting or burning yourself to relieve emotional pain. I bite my fingernails and on dried skin too, but I'm sure that don't count as self-harm.
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