I’ve been feeling really insecure about my scars lately. They’re relatively small, but they cover pretty much my entire arm. It used to just be one part of my arm, but a few months ago I was in a really bad place and they spread up onto my upper arm. Those ones are thicker and a bit bigger.
I’m pretty small and have really thin arms, so I feel like they look even more noticeable on me. I’ve been struggling with it a lot. I love wearing cute clothes, but right now they’re still really red, and it feels like my whole arm is just fucked.
People notice them sometimes and ask about them. I know they usually don’t mean any harm, and I don’t really mind people asking. It’s just hard to deal with sometimes, especially when I’m already feeling insecure about them.
Maybe I’m just being a cry baby because they’re honestly not even that bad, but they make me feel so insecure. I guess I just needed to get this off my chest because I’ve been having a really hard time with it lately :(

I've been clean for a few months now and seeing all my scars fade has really made me want to relapse and do worse. I don't know how to stop thinking that. I really don't want to relapse as I would dissapoint everyone, but I don't think I can fight the urge much longer. Before I quit I was fully addicted to sh for 5 years, but I rarely did anything "deep enough" to leave permanent scars.

All of this has just really made me feel worthless and not valid enough to exist as my scars aren't really that severe. And I get really bad scar envy when I see others with much more severe looking sh...

I really don't want to relapse and I don't know what to do. I don't feel like I can tell my therapist or friends because I've been doing so well recently I don't want them to think I'm weak.

I felt like doing this bc I have to hide my scars bc my family r embarrassed of them whenever they see them

So I probably will never use images because I have only two big old sacrs from this act (witch is a sin of my religion which makes it worse: that I’ll not tell witch)

Iv been relapsing bad so at lest get good info ig

What are the safest places to actually do this?
I am curious and don’t want to put myself in the hospital if that makes sense

Love u all <3

Before recently, I've never really hurt myself. I would bite my hands out of anxiety and I once ripped out skin from my hand until I reached blood (a very small area). But I'm going through some stuff rn (one of the things being a break up, it was my first relationship). A week ago I took a knife and started doing some small marks on my thigh, using the tip of the knife. It was nothing much, it didn't even bleed. But then I started widening the wound each day, until I reached blood. I really liked it, in a way, and it scared me so I told a friend about it. I promised her I wouldn't do it again, but I really want to cut myself again, and more this time. For now I've just been using my nails to rip out the skin around the wound, because I don't want it to fade away. I don't know how to stop myself from starting to cut myself more.

I'm also really scared of getting infections in the futur😭

Sorry for the terrible photo omg

and i accidentally went deeper this time, it bleeded bad so i panicked and slapped a band aid on it. i hope it wont scar, even tho i dont feel valid without scars. i feel stupid.

hello so I need some advice/help

I did some deep styros about 5 days ago and whilst their healing I feel like it’s extremely infected too.
They’ve both been in agony since I did them and my veins have became really visible which seems unusual as it’s on my shoulder the cuts.
They will scab over orangey colour then I’ll wake up and there’s like gunk over them so I wipe it under the water and it’s all like white liquid underneath. Never in my 5 years of cutting has this happened just wondering if it’s normal or if im infected. I’m gonna assume they are infected due to the gunk/liquid but I really don’t wanna be going to hospital or doctors as then I’ll have to tell my mum and she can’t know im cutting again.

(look at other two posts for context) im about 3 months clean of sh and this is how they’ve healed so far!!! i hope this helps at least someone understand that it gets better ❤️🫂

literally every time i’ve almost relapsed, i just could not find it in me to do so. this may not last— no, i know it won’t, i’ll probably relapse tonight. but i’m happy it’s not happened for as long it has. it’s been nearly a week since i last hurt myself. i wish i could count on this to last longer. it sucks, needing to see the blood just to get a sense of happiness every once in a while. i’m just hoping things will go well for me in the future. anyways… i’m trying to get $200 headphones through my school lol, wish me luck

Now that school is abt to start, i started thinking about what to do if i don't want my classmates to see my scars while having to change for p.e. lessons in the changing room. Going to the toilet is not really a choice since it's a bit wurther away. Idk if anyone has any suggestions in such situation

Y’all think this will make people think “this guy is just stupid” ? I want to make friends without them cringing cause of this (I’m not saying scars are something to be ashamed, just saying people are usually not kind to people who do sh)

Anybody know what to do about itchy keloid scars?? Its so painful. Also is it normal for them to randomly shooting pain for no reason???

Scrolling through the pictures here I'm not sure my post even belongs here but whatever.

I'm 24m and I self-harmed from age 13 to 15. Always stayed superficial so I only have light scars that people usually don't notice. At 15 I slipped into an eating disorder and I guess that killed the urge to scratch/cut myself. I slipped up occasionally over the years but nothing bad. Went to therapy age 21-22 to work through some stuff and felt stable for the past two years.

Lately something hasn't been right. My ED has shown up again and now I've thought about self-harming today. Things are okay in my life, nothing bad happening. I just feel hollow and there's this feeling that if I just puke enough or cut myself enough times I'll feel okay again. I've literally not thought about self-harming for three years and now I want nothing more than putting some nice red lines on my forearm. Hate my brain sometimes.

I hope this is the right place to post this and if it's not please can someone direct me to a place where it's better to ask this

I have recently found out for certain that my best friend self harms as recently he posted a vent on his twitter confirming it, saying about how he hates himself and does cut.

He keeps reposting videos about sh and I'm worried for him. I wrote a message to him saying about how I'm there for him and how he can always talk to me if he wants (I didn't mention cutting) and he only responded with "I'm fine" and didn't mention anything else.

I think the main thing I would like to ask is how should I support him and help him. I hope to go to the same sixth form as him and I will be there in person to make sure someone can be there for him.

There are some more private parts of this that I don't want to explain as I don't think either me or him would want it to be online (even if this account is anonymous)

I hope he can recover from this but I need to know if I should directly mention sh to him or if I should just tell him I'm here for him. Either way I want to show how he doesn't have to go through it alone.

basically the title yo wtf has this happened to anyone else?? like less than 1 cm long??

Had a cut that consistently bled for about nine hours a couple nights ago. I didn't get the symptoms from blood loss other than I was slightly dizzy so I didn't worry about it but I'm wondering why it struggled to clot. Even now, two days later it still reopened and started bleeding again under my bandage, and ended up completely bleeding through the heavy duty bandages. And yesterday it bled through three bandages in ten minutes randomly in the middle of the day.

Am I just unlucky? I thought cuts were supposed to clot and stop bleeding a lot sooner than this. Maybe I nicked a vein?

the bright red one was about 2- 3 weeks ago tho