Originally Posted by
Dreaming.
It's interesting how many people here are actively saying that self harm can in no way be a good thing (and as a side point - yet continue to SI). Self harm is a coping mechanism - a maladapted coping mechanism - but a coping mechanism nonetheless.
Just because it is a coping mechanism doesn't make it good, it just makes it the lesser of two evils surely?
I think discussing self-harm is different to what the OP suggested in their first post on this thread tbh.