As far as i can remember i started hurting mysele when i was about 8, but it was only hitting my self against things and scratching myself with compases and putting the hot glue gun on my skin to burn myself.
i got into serious SI when i was in y7, and i guess just never stopped. just seemed to get worse :(
started with eating issues at 10/11... like... id make myself sick when i felt upset....
cutting when i was...12... stopped till i was...15..
STOPPED NOW!!!!
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I was 10, and although I don't remember exactly how I was feeling when I did it - it's been so long now, I know it was because I couldn't cope with the family situation.
I think though at that point it kind of stopped and started, it got a lot worse when I was about 14.
i started when i was 13. the first month of gr 8. i cut when i fell back into my old habits....
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It's like you're a demon I can't face down
It's like your a leech sucking the life from me
And i know i let you have all the power
And i realize im never gonna quit you over time.
I was about 8 years old. At that time my grandmother was moving away and my whole family was falling apart. What started off as a way to demand attention ended up being the only part of my life I could control.
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14 was the first time I cut myself, but I had done all sorts of self harm before then, mainly nailing myself with my fingernails when I was angry until I bleed, having really hot showers, or not letting wounds heal.
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Cutting from age of about 11/12 years, dont remember exactly, but I do remeber the look I got when I showed my best friend at the time.. one which will stay with me forever and has reinforced the image I already had on myself.. one of disgust and ridicule.
burning from the age of about 18..
blood letting from about the same time.
Very little odd things I did to myself from about the age of 10 or so. So little that they're not even worth mentioning, but I guess they were self-harm in some way.
Over-eating up until the age of 15.
Bulimia at age 15.
Cutting at age 16.
I was 11.
It wasn't exactly self harm, like triggered = cuts.
And I didn't realise what it was until I was 14 when I started cutting my arms and got worse.
I think a lot of it stemmed from long-term bullying and my parents separation when I was 10.
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I started self-harming when I was in year six, so I must have been ten or eleven. But I really had no idea what I was doing, and I only did it a few times. I then started doing it regularly when I was in year eight, but didn't realise what it was until year nine [I was thirteen] when I joined RYL. I'm now sixteen.
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I started scratching myself until I had friction burns when I was 19. I suppose before that I used to hit things really hard, hit myself and dig my nails into my skin for as long as I can remember. I started cutting 3 days before my 20th birthday. I was having urges to cut myself from being about 12 though and you could say that the first time I properly SI'd was a 'slip up' because of that!
