replacing one form of SH for another

[CstarL]

I am thinking about starting to pull my hair out in place of my cutting. I have not cut in a few months but, I frequently have urges or thoughts about it. I am wondering if replacing cutting for hair pulling a good idea. Hair pulling is not life threatening and cutting is. I cannot accidentally kill myself by pulling out my hair. I have tried this in the past. The worst thing that puling my hair out will do is make me go bald. I am planning to get a silk scarf to cover my head like of like the Muslim women do. The silk scarf is to hopefully hid that I pull my hair without looking weird or being to hot on sunny days. I have in the past made a routine were I pulled some hair out the same amount of hair stand by stand every night. I am thinking about making a new routine were I would pull my hair the same amount of hair, stand by strand, every morning. I am hoping that would satisfy my self destructive urges and make it so I will not think about being self destructive in some form all day. I think about SH in some form all day and I hope that if I start my day off my pulling my hair that I will not have these thought as much or at all. Any ideas or thoughts on this?

[crazykat]

At the end of the day it is still self-harm though. No one here can really tell you if one form of self-harm is better than the other because it sort of borderlines on encouraging self-harm. It is better to instead work on what is making you want to harm yourself instead. Then finding healthier coping mechanisms to deal with them.

[FranticMind]

hair pulling is not a good idea, when i was IP i ended up hair pulling and i went almost completley bald, self harm for me is a private thing, so having to go outside with a near enough bald head was embarrassing as of the looks i got. i hope this helps a bit.

[havealittlefaith]

echo the above advice and please speak to someone about this thinkin of you x