Self-Harms is when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing with very difficult feelings , old memories or overwhelming situation and experiences . Th way you hurt youself can be physical , such as cutting yourself.. They can also be less obvious , such as putting yourself in risky situations , or not looking after your own physical or emotional needs.
Ways of self-harms .
- Cutting yourself
- poisoning yourself
- over eating / under eating
- burning your skin
- inserting objects in your body
- hitting yourself or walls
- overdose
- exercising excessively
- scratching and hair pulling
After self-harming you might feel better and more able to cope for awhile . However, self harms can bring up difficult feelings and could make you worse.
If you self-harm, you may feel embarrassed or ashamed about it. You might be worried that other people will judge you or pressurise you to stop if you tell them about it. This may mean that you keep your selfharming a secret. This is a very common reaction, although not everyone does this.
Why do people harm themselves?
There are no fixed rules about why people self-harm. For some people, it can be linked to specific experiences, and be a way of dealing with something that is happening now, or that happened in the past. For others, it is less clear. If you don’t understand the reasons for your selfharm, it’s important to remind yourself that this is OK, and you don’t need
to know this in order to ask for help.
Any difficult experience can cause someone to self-harm. Common causes include:
- pressures at school or work
- bullying
- money worries
- sexual, physical or emotional abuse
- bereavement
- confusion about your sexuality
- breakdown of relationships
- an illness or health problem
- difficult feelings, such as depression, anxiety, anger or numbness, experienced as part of a mental health problem.
Some people have also described self-harm as a way to:
- express something that is hard to put into words
- make experiences, thoughts or feelings that feel invisible into something visible
- change emotional pain into physical pain
- reduce overwhelming emotional feelings or thoughts
- have a sense of being in control
- escape traumatic memories
- stop feeling numb, disconnected or dissociated (see dissociative disorders)
- create a reason to physically care for yourself
- express suicidal feelings and thoughts without taking your own life
- communicate to other people that you are experiencing severe distress.
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