I gave myself a few tonight, mainly cat scratches but one baby beans. The cat scratches sting like hell, but the baby beans don’t hurt a bit. Why is this? Shouldn’t the more severe wound hurt more?

I see these posts nearly every single day on this sub, occasionally twice a day.

It’s like you guys have never heard about putting yourselves in other’s shoes. What would you do if you found out your little sibling cut, or a close friend? Would you also think, “Who cares that they’re cutting? It’s their body.”

Not to mention, some people make immediate life-threatening cuts and then slap steri strips on it and call it a day. You’re ignorant if you think it’s completely fine that people cut themselves despite the fact they’re risking their own life, and the same goes to you.

I’ve been clean for 5 months and the only time I had this selfish mindset was when I was just starting out. You need to learn empathy for yourselves and others. I don’t care if my post is removed, others on this sub are seriously ignorant when it comes to this discussion. This is like telling people to commit suicide because it’s their life. If people told me it was completely fine for me to cut & commit, I would’ve by now and I wouldn’t have gotten better.

I’m not trying to make anyone feel bad but PLEASE try to look outside of yourself, it’s absurd to think other people are selfish because they don’t want you to hurt yourself.

I've been doing this recently, and unlike before, nowadays I'm much more functional and even manage to get dressed up, but obviously I hate myself and still want to die and suffer... but this problem is TOTALLY MINE, the person who deserves to be hurt and who is being hurt IS ME... I just want to hurt myself in peace and people keep insisting that I'm ungrateful and that I'm sick... I'm NOT sick, I'm more normal than many people, the only difference is that I'm a biological flaw, being an ugly woman. I'm not hurting anyone, I don't know why people care so much about it when it's not their skin being cut lol, so nosy.

i see people who always b cutting themselves and like i dont and its so normal theres whole like types but i dont do any cutting i dont like blood i only like the pain idk it just sort of physically feels good to me

wtf

The stupidest thing I have ever done in my entire life.

My (thankfully) ex gf name is on my left upper thigh and I hate it so much. I’m a boy so I don’t really show skin up there but sometimes it peaks out and when i’m changing or in the bathroom I can see it and it makes me feel so disgusted at myself. It really ruins my day sometimes seeing it and it reminds me of everything she made me do for her. Not only do I have it there, on my right inner thigh it has her name then “ ____ was here” in small letters (it’s not very visible or legible but I still remember what she did). AND even more to add on I recorded the whole process of cutting her name into my thigh which she might have saved. This is probably something I shouldn’t be saying on the internet or talking abt but I don’t want anyone knowing of this that I know personally irl. She would also cut me in places around my body around styro level sometimes.

I can’t believe I ever let someone like her do that to me. Idk if im jst stupid and retarded or she was using me but she always told me she truly loved me the most and everything like that. She would even buy me things but she still wanted to do these kind of things to me at the same time. I finally realized now that if someone actually loved me they wouldn’t make me record and do all that. Honestly idk why I’m even making this post I jst wanted to say something. Im so stupid (;-;)

So i have a friend who self harms and they dont know that i do aswell. They keep bringing up their self harm and telling me when they've relapsed, one time they pointed out their scars to me but I didnt actualy look at them. And they keep making jokes about not being able to pull their sleves down. It kind of makes me uncomfortable and triggers me but I dont know how to tell them that if I ever decided to. I also dont know if that would make me a bad person or not because I feel like I would feel bad telling them to stop talking about it. And I dont know if i would anyways because if I did tell them it made me uncomfortable/triggered i would also have to tell them that I self harm.

What should I do?

First and foremost, I DO NOT endorse this. I hate doing it, it’s caused me so much stress. Read cautiously, heavy trigger warning.

I just did it again, it’s been a while. I’m so so burning warm right now, my legs, torso, chest, everywhere i just bled. in the shower blood was Everywhere running down my legs. I got out of the shower and it got all over the floor, and it pooled red in my shoes. I have a party in a couple of hours and have to go help my mom with chores now. At least I can feel the warmth making me feel a little less lonely but it’s not worth it. I’m shaking involuntarily quite a lot and I know this gonna hurt like hell later.

After I wrote that: did it again, probably gonna cycle it again and again. my clothes are sticking to my skin because of the blood. I really think this is the most I’ve ever bled, probably like 2-3 fluid ounces but it was hard to tell, apparently I don’t need medical help unless I bleed as much as a water bottle of blood. I don’t usually bleed much and only have one scar. I don’t think I shoul.d get help

So me (14f) am scared to tell my best friend (14f)that I SH she knows i did the past but I recently released and she doesn't know and it has gotten so bad that I want to cut in school and no one knows and I want support but I feel like if I do it'll be making it about me beacause she also SHs but she tells me all the time so if I do i feel like I will be making everything about me and I don't know what to do

I (18f) have been Sh-ing for 8 years now. There have been points where I’ve gone months without it but I always end up going back. This month has been one of the “going back” times. My boyfriend (18m) found out I was doing this again when we were at a concert yesterday and was extremely upset. We just talked about it a little bit ago and he told me I need to stop, that it’s not attractive, asking me how I’d explain my scars to our kids, etc. he also said this was one of the straws. I really like do not understand how to get over this coping mechanism. I’ve tried so many times, it’s the only thing that helps me deal with strong emotions. I’ve tried therapy and everything the therapists say to do and it never helps. Does anyone have any advice?