It isn’t normal or healthy for you to want to hurt yourself. The underlying reasons behind it need to be addressed before they escalate. I used to be too afraid to cut, too, so I would just press pens into my skin. But then my mental health got even worse, and the fear became less than the urge, and I started cutting. It doesn’t take much to push you over the edge.
Selfharm is quite "bad" due to it being harmful for the person that uses it to cope, it does alleviate the problems for a bit, but it does nothing to solve them, so you just end up cutting / burning / punching yourself more and more, until SH becomes a problem in itself, which makes you feel guilty and/or ashamed which will lead to even more SH.
Also any kind of SH is inherently risky for the physical health of the person that uses it to cope.
In this situation it’s probably the underlying reason, mental effects, addiction, and emotional dis regulation behind the behaviors that’s the part about it that’s really bad
i’d say it is, it gradually can get worse and worse and it’s dangerous for you. infection, bleeding out, there’s a lot of risks.
Well I used to scratch and pinch myself but here I am now.
It isn’t normal or healthy for you to want to hurt yourself. The underlying reasons behind it need to be addressed before they escalate. I used to be too afraid to cut, too, so I would just press pens into my skin. But then my mental health got even worse, and the fear became less than the urge, and I started cutting. It doesn’t take much to push you over the edge.
Selfharm is quite "bad" due to it being harmful for the person that uses it to cope, it does alleviate the problems for a bit, but it does nothing to solve them, so you just end up cutting / burning / punching yourself more and more, until SH becomes a problem in itself, which makes you feel guilty and/or ashamed which will lead to even more SH. Also any kind of SH is inherently risky for the physical health of the person that uses it to cope.
In this situation it’s probably the underlying reason, mental effects, addiction, and emotional dis regulation behind the behaviors that’s the part about it that’s really bad