Triggering (SI) - How old were you when..

[TimesLikeThese]

Started cutting at 12, started burning at 13. I'm 13 now. =/

[-Shae-Lynn*]

technically started when I was 15.
But I've been hurting myself in some way from many years

[Chrissyann]

Cutting at 11, and other methods for a few years before that.

[Belt]

16?/15?

[ruthhardy]

I started when I was 12 (I think) and once stopped for 6 months

[dreamlifefangels]

I was 7 when I started... but it didn't get really bad until I was 13, then I started doing it all the time.

[ashleighbean]

cutting at 16.
tried many times before that.
i think i did things that i wasnt aware of when i was little.
burning was 16/17.

[xxxgypsyxxx]

5 - biting to draw blood
8 - hair pulling
11 - Ana
12 - mia
14 - cutting
16 - deliberate high meds with no intent on death



wow.... no wonder my counselor told me there wasn't anything she could do...

[snowflake]

cutting when i was 14 but it became really bad when I was 15

[alienshe_cheesycake]

erm cutting became a regular thing at about 15 when I tried to kill myself (tried to slash my wrists and the relief was un-believable)

I'm nearly 18 now, so thats three years nearly

I do remember thinking about cutting for a long time before this
and when I was younger (between ages 8-12?)
I used to scratch myself with scissors
Bang myself on things, bang my head against the wall
Pinch myself, slap myself, strangle myself.
So lots of ****ed up stuff when I was much younger when I try to remember it

Problems with eating came along when I was 13-14
Started starving myself, binge eating, purging.

Makes me sad when I look at all the stuff I started doing

[Ghostface]

I starved myself when I was around 8-9....I cant really remember why I did it, but I refused to eat for a long time

[beidi]

13 when i started cutting.
"disordered eating" at 14.

[Mad Dps]

well my mom said i started when i was one....because i would get so mad i would run up to our glass door and bang my head on it for hrs...but i started cutting when i was 15

[identity]

ever since i started first school i have struggled with an ED, i got builied alot for being bigger than evreyone else, i over ate a lot for comfort, started cutting at 11 and making myself sick. cutting got really bad when i was 13-14 i was cutting about 4 times a day and then when i was 15 i started starving myself and my cuting at 16 got so bad and hasnt really settled at all since and im now 18 and fat. i took my first od when i was 13 but didnt tell anyone.

[Diamonds.]

My first cut when i was 11. ED when i was 12 (Recovering now!). Banging my head of walls when i was 15. OCD when i was 16.

[tamobhuuta]

i was 13

[TheWeirdOnes]

First cut when i was 10. not serious. It was a one off, and then i started regular but not bad when i was 12ish? then it got out of hand when i was 13. i'm 14 now.

[-Chelsey-]

just turned 12 I started cutting.
But even when I had just started school, I remember throwing myself down stairs..

[Life Must Go On]

14 was when i first cut
id been doing like diff stuff b4 that duno how old

[xthexasylumxchildx]

i was 8 when i started everything

kinda just went on.. got really bad when i was 12 and now at 14 i guess i kinda feel i should stop