10 Common Types of Self-Harm

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How to self harm? Here are 10 common methods such as cutting, pinching, ripping the skin off, etc. However, If you ask this question, you may need to see a doctor for figure out underlying causes.

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CasFeb.25 03:20

I use erasers... I know this is weird, but it works so yep...
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Some girl no one gives a fuck aboutMar.7 06:17

i just cut today..
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Siren_saysApr.18 01:21

Cutting is a response to undesired feelings. The act releases dopamine, which make the cutter happy. It is an addiction. I have the 10yo scars to prove it.
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TammyMay.17 23:32

I am 15 I like to tie myself up and hit/run myself in to things, but I have a good life and am happy.I don't know why I do it.
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Jade HarleyJun.17 15:35

I usually rub something on my palms to burn them, its usually hard plastic It feels good however even though it burns a bit
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UnknownJun.28 12:05

Gahahaha....So pathetic. You're only in the end doing this to yourself. Your subconscious creates things in the back of your mind that felt like it happened. But it didn't. You're cutting and feeling suicidal because you let people's shit get the most of you! So stop lying to yourself and the face the facts. Life is hard at times. And people can't deal with that and what do they do? They harm themselves. Giving themselves physical pain but mental happiness. Its pathetic.
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GaM3oVeRJan.9 18:36

@ Unknown : You're a piece of shit. You've obviously not self-harmed before, or you would know, that calling people like me pathetic, makes me feel like a waste of space, and makes me want to harm more, and that it's not "physical pain but mental happiness". It's not some masochistic way of pleasure, it is a way to release your emotions, a way to make the mental hurt, physical, and visible. So that when I feel like a disappointment, like everything I do is wrong, like I let everyone down, get in everyone's way, like people would be better off without me, like i'd be better off without me, i can escape instead of using more permanent means. instead of bottling it all up until i feel overloaded. Until i don't have the strength or courage to do anything anymore, because yeah, "life is hard". But death, that's easy. and who doesn't like the easy way out?
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LucyJul.29 07:54

I'd like to say that whoever you are and whatever suffering you have just know and hope that it'll get better. Trust me on this and hang on. As time passes you'll realise that time really heals all the wounds and it gets better. You will find a reason to live. Pain is temporary as is happiness but life wouldn't be complete without it now would it? We all are bound to become hopeless one day and get hurt in the ways we thought we could never get hurt but it happens with everyone. You are no exception, believe me. Just hope for a better life where you will be happy. Hope and believe.
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Random CommenterAug.22 08:00

Any bump or red spot on myself I have to pick at and open up, any scab I pick open and have recently realised I enjoy seeing the wound bleed. I have bitten the skin off of my fingers completely raw, it hurts and gives a horrible burning sensation, yet I didn't care when I was doing it. I rip the skin off around blisters so it takes for ever to heal. When I can't do any of that or be on my phone I bite my finger nails until they're too short and hurts too bad. I've done these things for years and only realised a couple months ago that it was self harm. Just because I don't cut, or burn myself I didn't know that what I was doing was an actual problem.
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JackSep.18 01:12

This isn't a very accurate article. It leaves out many common forms of self harm, it confuses Self Harm with masochism which is sexual arousal from pain and generally not a coping mechanism or addiction, and lastly it displays very little understanding of why people self harm which can be for a variety of reasons.
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heaven Z.Oct.12 18:39

i scratch, my mom, she is very...abusive? is what dss is telling me, and my family, my aunt is telling me that, but yeah. so i started cutting and scratching when i was 8 years old. i'm 15 now. and i just took pills. i don't know what's going to happen, but i took 60 pills of xanax just now....and i feel fine, but just tired. y'all. suicide, isn't the answer, and i have no room to talk, but it is seriously just a permanent solution to a temporary problem. i just don't want to be home in this situation, and i'm sure some of you feel that way too, and i wouldn't blame you, i don't walk in your shoes. and now that these pills are kicking in, do me a favor and respond r.i.p. Heaven Z.
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GabrielleOct.21 10:51

@ heaven Z. : Please call your family, any friends, relatives if possible. Wish you can love yourself more.
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