You aren't understanding my question I think. What led you to believe self harm would help the first time you did it in any form?
For everyone it's different but yeah for me personally it was reading about someone else doing it. I'm not sure if she actually cut or did something else but I chose to cut and yeah.. But it's different for everyone
It doesn't help anything. But as me and the person above me said many people do it for many reasons. Some think it would take away the pain, to not think about it at all.
I was never rude. Tell me it isn't true that eating 3 big bags of hot cheetos harms your body. That's self harm because you know the risks but eat them anyway knowing they'll harm your body.
I know some people have accidentally hurt themselves and the pain from that gave them a rush so they went from there. Just depends on the person and how or why they started to self harm
^ you sir are a fucking ass And by the way, I'm Cherry. The person who posted above me is Jopo. He stole my name, and this was probably the worse thread for him to do it on. I hurt myself from 8-19, no one found out until I was 13, but I didn't get treatment for it for many years because doctors kept telling my parents it's a phase she'll grow out of it. I have scars on most of my body...various reasons... Simply put though the more you sit there in your own shit the more fucked up you get. That being said...get some help, do something because once you're my age and looking for a job or want to do something and people see your scars and look at them and ask you about them. Yeah it because an issue. Oh and most people who self harm have depression not most people with depression self harm. The more you coddle yourself and your own bullshit the longer time it's going to take for you to get better. Just sayin.
Everyone gets better in their own time and some relapse back into a depression. I didn't know what depression was for a long time and I wasn't diagnosed with it for a long time. I've been trying to get help for many years now but nothing has helped much. Everyone is different, of course everyone should get help straight away but it doesn't always mean they'll get better quicker.
Did you read my full thing phoebe? It took me many years to find help because of lack of doctor understanding about the issue as well as my own unwillingness to seek help and get help. 11 years of hurting myself. I had deeper issues with it then just a "addiction" component, or hurting myself to feel alive. It was both of those but mine was also punishment. Took a really good doctor to make me realize I was punishing myself for my sexual abuse that happened when I was younger as well as older... Proper therapy along with people not coddling me along with my own realization that the more I live in the past and in my pain the more of a whiney individual I become.