[Celticroots]

Thank you so much for posting this! I can really relate to this as my main method of SH is hitting. Sure it's not as common as cutting, but is still dangerous and just as important. When I was a kid, I would self-harm before I knew what self-harm was. I'd pull my hair, hit myself, bang my head, slam my fists into things, etc. In my teens I started cutting which led to scratching.

Hitting became my main method last summer when things were getting to be too much. The bruises were small at first and it didn't take much force for me to get relief. Since then, though, it escalated, and the bruises became huge. Now I hit myself with objects and it takes weeks for the bruises to fade.

For me, hitting got to be just as addictive as cutting is to others. I genuinely want to stop, but it's proving difficult. This thread lets me know that I am not alone.