Is it doing you emotional harm to ignore it? Do you think you still struggle with your issues?
It sounds like you're doing really well in life without SH. I think you summed it up though by saying "I suppose if I encouraged it, I could sink back into it" - that doesn't sound like someone who needs to do it or wants to do it.
I don't think people remain self harmers forever but self harm itself can remain with us forever because of the permanent reminders it leaves on our skin. Coping methods are habit forming so even after years of not doing it if something goes wrong it can still be an automatic reaction to want to do it again. It's whether you do it or not that determines whether that monster is still in control or not.
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