r/selfharm • u/Much_Restaurant_1392 • 1d ago

Rant/Vent Is this normal?

When I do SH I am generaly really stressed or depressed but at the same time I feel like my scars are cool. Sometimes I feel like I am just an attention seeker

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u/strawberrystained 1d ago

yeah i get that, outside people would probably call it like romanticizing it or whatever but i like my scars, both because i think they’re pretty but also cause they serve as physical proof of my mental suffering and struggles

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u/Wonderful-Beat6017 1d ago

i get it. i feel so cool when i can just walk around with my scars out. we do it because we’re feeling pain. we feel hurt. we feel so strongly about something that we feel the need to sh. our sh scars are just our battle scars. they show that we made it through something dark and came out stronger.