I have been self harming for 8 years but have been free for 3months 2 weeks but am curious as I used to occasionally purposely get my pets to scratch and bite me, is that still classed as self harm?
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Yes I was doing it with the intention of being hurt. thanks for answering, others feel free to voice your opinions.
Have you ever sat there and wondered ‘why am I still here? I don’t even want to be here. I haven’t wanted to be here for so long. What’s keeping me here?’ And then you realize the answer is nothing. And that scares you even more than the fact that you don’t want to be here anymore.
I have done it as well with full intention to self-harm, so it counts to me.
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I think it's a tricky one! Depends if getting hurt is your sole intention. If I tickle my cat's tummy, he kind of play-fights for a bit and it's actually quite affectionate (or as affectionate as a grumpy cat gets!), but you do get scratched a bit, and as I'm allergic to cats, they can sting a fair bit. In my case, I'd only count it as self harm if I didn't pull my arm away once he started properly biting, as before that, I count it as play.
I personally think that's a blurred line... If you have your pet trained to hurt you if you do something specific to them or in other words if you piss them off to where they bite you or scratch you in self defense, then yes that's self harm since you're purposely make your pets harm you.
If you're playing with them, or your intentions start out good but it gets to that level, I wouldn't specifically consider it "self harm"
I'd call that deliberate self harm. You do it with the intention of getting hurt; I can't see how it's any different to cutting really. *hugs*
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Yes I think it's self-harm even though you are not actually doing it yourself your purposely doing something to get hurt.
Are you hurting your pets or are you just pissing them off because if your hurting them that is another thing that you shouldn't be doing.
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I do not hurt my pets all I tend to do is lift my cat up in the air so that he scratches my wrists with his back legs. The reason I do it is because I am crap at lying to my mum so doing it gives me a reason not to lie to my mum eg "have you cut yourself again Samantha?" "No mum the cat scratched me."
Have you ever sat there and wondered ‘why am I still here? I don’t even want to be here. I haven’t wanted to be here for so long. What’s keeping me here?’ And then you realize the answer is nothing. And that scares you even more than the fact that you don’t want to be here anymore.
I think there are a lot of lies we tell ourselves about what classifies as self-harm and what doesn't. I like to pretend that as long as it doesn't leave marks or leaves a mark that don't look like it's self-inflicted, it doesn't count as self-harm. In reality, if we're asking if it classifies as self-harm, I think it tends to be because we know we're doing something we shouldn't be. (I've had my friends cat intentionally scratch me before)
From what you said in your last post I'd count that as self harm. It can be a blurred line but as your doing it only to hurt yourself and this be able to lie to your mum id say your intention was to self harm.
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