It's a means whereby I inflict pain on myself, or a visible mark of my emotional distress. It's a pain I can control, it's a hurt that can be seen. To some extent this is reparative of my past, in a twisted kind of way.
Hurting myself to punish myself or to get relief and control over my feelings..
♥ .I'm going to fall like I don't need saving. ♥
...My smile's just the armour I built when I was alone...
There was some part of me that hurt so badly, that I wouldn't ever be able to forget it.
It faded but the memories could bring it back any second, keeping me in the moment.
It would never fully heal. I could never really be free. I could never really be fixed. Now I just have to work out how to live whilst being broken.
I feel like I'm dying.
A survival technique. Something to keep the waves calm, so to speak. Stop me feeling happy, stop me feeling sad. Now it has been taken away, I have to feel emotion.
I guess self-harm is in the name, harming the self intentionally.
on a related note, does it have to be physical in nature? What about when people intentionally get into fights to punish or harm theirselves? or when people purposely neglect their health? Or push people away to intensionally cause them to be alone? etc.
For me, self-harm is something to express my emotions, something to make me realize I am alive, something to make me feel, to remind me the past is real, something to hold on to, fall back on and to know I am not completely empty.
for me it is a way to deal with the situation, once I have SH'd I often feel like the situation is dealt with because i have done something about it. At other times it relieves the anxiety, I don't know how else to get rid of the intense emotions - even if SH only stops them for a short while it's worth it
selfharm is apart of me its my best friend i need it but a kinda friend i hate and a friend that never lets mme down
-it makes me feel pure
-it helps me to feel
-it helps me to escape for that momment intime if not planned forever
young girl its alright your tears will soon dry your soon be free to fly
she's falling from grace , she's all over the place..............
Self harm for me... Is a way i can control my body, when i feel i have no control, it releases the emotions am feeling without taking it out on other people ( sadly i take it out on myself) Though i will and have also used self harm for punishment but also for any emotion i have felt before even feeling happy. I can always count on self harm, which is quite sad but its true.
Though i agree with other people self harm can come in other forms not just by cutting/ burning eg staying in a abusive relationship, drinking, smoking etc ( I arent saying everyone who drinks or smokes self harms but that there some of the other ways people self harm)
Self harm helps me get away from myself and everything else. when i cut, there isnt anything but pain and blood. all i can see and feel is pain and blood.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shaddow that never leaves. - Buddha
