How did you discover self-injury?

[wi-nter]

^ that's kinda what i went through.
i lived abroad for almost a year and when i came back everything was sh*t to be honest and i hated my parents and where i lived and i didn't feel very connected to everything anymore in general. and i was really angry. sad, too but mostly i was angry. at everything and everyone and mostly myself.
and then i saw '13' the movie with evan rachel wood and she goes through a lot and she cuts herself. and when i saw this i knew it was ~bad somehow but then i used it whenever i tried to calm myself down and kill the emotional pain i was suffering. and it helped. and i didn't really have access to anything super sharp so i did it with a swiss pocket knife that was OLD. and it ****ing took a lot to even cut properly with it.
i was on and off with the cutting and i still am :/ so dumb to get into it because of a movie i related to

[Ahimsa]

Things were going crap at school, and I was speaking to one of my teachers about how I was feeling - and she said "You haven't thought about hurting yourself, have you? If you have, I need to know" - as it happens, I hadn't, but she put the idea into my head.

[someflowerchild]

I first heard about it when I was in 7th grade. I was kind of "gothic" and LOVED Twilight. I have self harmed all my life (even though it wasn't till my senior year of high school I realized that what I was doing was self harming) and I was at the lunch table when this girl was making fun of someone who self harmed and was doing that notorious motion across her wrist and was giggling.

I didn't really know what exactly she was talking about, so I just giggle along with the rest of the girls.

When I was in 9th grade I watched "How to Save a Life" and that night I went home and actually cut myself for the first time because I saw the boy on the movie do it. So then became my now 4 1/2 years of cutting as my main self harm (the 1/2 part is my clean period. I haven't SHed in 6+ months).

[KariNicole]

I found out about self harm - cutting, specifically - about ten years ago in middle school because of the kids i knew in school. One of them was a boy that self harmed. I admit, i had a childish crush on him even if i barely talked to him. He was always toying with either intact or broken pairs of scissors in class and at the lunch table and on the bus and sometimes he'd cut with them in public. I had several friends in middle school that self harmed but he was the first person i knew that did. Two of my friends in school at the time did as well, as well as a girl two grades ahead of me that i knew. I think being surrounded by it so much, i just got curious. I don't remember having a clear reason at first, just wanting to try it. I was just curious cause i saw people i knew doing it.

[finding.my.wings]

my mother taught me...like sat me down when i was about 9 or 10 and told me what she did and showed me how. then as i got older life turned shitty one day i neded up being really angry with someone and tired it. that was 12/13 years ago now.