Hi everyone!

We have noticed a big influx of self-harmers here who upload photos of their own cuts. If you are one of those people, welcome! Now, let's get straight to the point of this post. We have observed that there has been an increase in romanticizing self-harm, which is something that we are not keen on.

The /h/selfharm flair rarely had OC (original content, the uploader is the one who did the cutting), but there has been a big increase recently. The flair has shifted from "watch someone cut" to "watch my cute cut". Therefore, we want to implement the following rule:

• Comments and posts that encourage/romanticize self-harm will be removed.

We don't want people to rile each other up by commenting on how pretty a cut is. We don't want people to upload their "cute cuts :3". Romanticizing self-harm is not allowed. By enforcing this rule, we hope to reduce these kinds of interactions with all posts.

We hope you understand. If anyone needs help with stopping self-harm or is interested in alternate coping methods that are not as damaging to the body, please let me know :) (been there, done that).

Thank you for your time !

(Posting this in /h/selfharm for more visibility)

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Main Points:

Types of self harm:

• Cutting or burning one's skin

• Punching or hitting yourself

• poisoning yourself with tablets or toxic chemicals

• misusing alcohol or drugs

• deliberately starving yourself or binge eating

• exercising to much

This thread will mostly focus on Cutting although I encourage you to learn more about all of them

Biggest Question:

Why did you start cutting?

I first cut when I was like 8 or 9. I was frustrated and had heard about it from TV and pop culture. I thought it would be worth trying.

Recently my closest friend relapsed back into self harm, so I wanted to write this info thread to not only tell why someone might do it but to also get a users perspective!

Self harm comes in may forms, cutting or burning one's skin, punching or hitting yourself, poisoning yourself with tablets or toxic chemicals, misusing alcohol or drugs, deliberately starving yourself or binge eating, or exercising to much. Oxford defines it as:

"Deliberate injury to oneself, typically as a manifestation of a mental condition."

Why would someone Self Harm? In most cases, people who self-harm do it to help them cope with overwhelming emotional pain. This could be caused by social problems, trauma or psychological reasons.

Social Problems:

• Being bullied

• Having problems at work or school

• Having difficult relationships with friends or family

• Coping with expectations

Trauma:

• Physical or sexual abuse

• Death of a close family member or friend

• Having a miscarriage

Psychological causes:

• Dissociating - losing touch with who they are and with their surroundings

• Having repeated thoughts or voices telling them to self-harm

• Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

about 17% of all people will self harm in their lifetime!

45% of people Self Harming are using cutting.

The average age of onset for self-injury is 13!

Q/A:

Why did you start cutting?

I first cut when I was like 8 or 9. I was frustrated and had heard about it from TV and pop culture. I thought it would be worth trying.

Why did you continue to cut?

I liked it and felt that it helped me vent my frustration and depression as I wasn't being medicated at the time. Also at my height of cutting I was caught smoking and doing other drugs and my parents decided to outpatient rehab. I couldn't see any of my friends or use so the only thing I felt I could do was cut.

How destructive of a habit do you believe it to be in comparison to other ones such as Porn, Nicotine, Other drugs, etc.?

Cutting is really hard to stop once you get used to it. It can obviously get you killed if you cut too deep or something bad but it isn't as bad as something like heroin because hard drugs effect everyone in your life while cutting is easy to hide and don't do any damage to other people.

When my parents first found out I was cutting I didn't understand why it was a bid deal because I had been doing it for so long. I never really understood how much it hurts people around you until I found out my girlfriend was doing it.

Once we talked about it we decided to stop together.

This interview was with: @Sadistac (Man in the first video)

Comment if you have any more questions you would like answered.

If you know someone who is struggling with self harm or you are Please reach out!

A thread was posted today on how to treat SH and I recommend you read it if you are struggling!

https://watchpeopledie.tv/h/social/post/145635/self-harm-aid-and-harm-reduction

Sources:

https://www2.hse.ie/conditions/self-harm/

https://www.therecoveryvillage.com/mental-health/self-harm/self-harm-statistics/

Lil Self Harm Collection:

Person hits an artery when cutting, bro squirts everywhere

Person rubs salt and lemon on self harm cuts

Sliced neck, most likely an attempted suicide

Man tries to pull out nerve endings

man cut off his penis

Indian Man cuts off his finger (light work for him)

This is my first attempt at an effort post lmk any changes to make it read better or such

↑ taken recently

NOTE: this is NOT the batman signal, just a simple bat outline

Spider Web

↑ taken sometime last year

Animal Scratch on the Ribs

↑ some small blood vessels can be seen under dermis

↑ scar is no longer hard and painful. pic was taken a few days ago.

This one was easily one of the most painful cuts i've done. healing was a huge pain too, inconvenient spot so the bandages kept sliding. during the early stages of scar healing, when i would get cold, these would tighten and if i bent to the side it would be so tight..not so much the case anymore thankfully

I'm aware that these aren't perfect, i never expected them to be. It's hard to do on yourself without proper tools and skill.

These were for art purposes, not self harm. It is in the self harm category bc it fits best here.

He swallowed the bullet...

Apart from this song, heres some advice:

Although when you generally think about self-harming, it is pretty much hard for you to focus on anything else or think about other things to do to cope healthily and thats especially for people who've done self harm for a very long time.

But generally when people typically think about doing it (including me), of course just try to do these if you feel these emotions while wanting to cope by self harming instead.

• If you're angry:

-Let that negative energy all out by running outside or doing other exercises, yes some people on this site no life like shit in there, but for the love of God going outside is free and only takes a couple of limbs assuming that all of you guys have arms and legs.

-Buying some stress free items (For example stress balls) may be considered childish, but it's a good way to distract yourself from doing other bad things to yourself. As a person with ADHD it is genuinely distracting and makes me forget that I even feel like wanting to do it myself.

-Hitting cushions also is pretty cool. Im assuming you all got cushions on your bed to punch on unless you guys decided to afford a phone to make your lives more miserable.

• If you feel sad

-Crying is not something illegal to do, especially when you're a guy as well. You don't need to listen to what the fuck society says because sometimes you don't need to man up a little in your life and just let it all out since a good cry can reduce stress from the chemicals it releases out of your body which are endorphins.

-Writing down your emotions on a notebook isn't such a bad idea too, you can do it in any way you'd like to write it as long as you have paper and a pencil/pen at least.

-Listen to calming music like sounds of rain/thunder/nature sounds, this also applies with white noise or also songs generally with cheerful instrumentals and positive lyrics.

-Asking your friend if you can have a little talk is always alright. (Hopefully you guys have friends at least ) you aren't a burden just for expressing how you feel because everyone in fact has feelings. If you dont have feelings then you're just an edgelord.

-Try a breathing exercise, breathe in through your nose for 4 seconds, hold your breath for 2 seconds and then breath out for 7 seconds.

• If you feel overwhelmed/numb

-Literally for the love of God don't go cutting yourself just because you feel numb, instead rub ice cubes on your skin. It seems like a stupid idea but it really isnt because it promotes sleep and offers temporary relief that eases anxiety.

-Watch some funny stuff on social medias or youtube. A good laugh can just make you forget why you were feeling negative in the first place.

-This seems childish but who the fuck cares, you can use a grounding exercise with your five senses using these steps. Simply just focus on what's in your surroundings and name:

5 things you can see

4 things you can feel

3 things you can hear

2 things you can smell

1 thing you can taste

• If you feel alone:

-Go somewhere which is safe and public for example a park, you can invite your family members/friends/partner or you can also take your pet for a walk there if you have one.

-Calling your friend/family member can genuinely be helpful since it makes you realise that you don't have only yourself in your life.

-Listen to other people's stories on podcasts or videos and observe their experiences in their lives, this helps you realise that you arent the only person with the same struggles and that if that person handled that struggle by doing this certain advice then you could too.

-Call a helpline please. Self-harming shouldn't even be normalized nor should it even be encouraged, you should always google your helpline and feel free to copy and paste your helpline number in your device's notes or write it in your notebook or on a paper.

• If you feel ashamed to the point where you deserve to be punished:

-Realise that everyone makes mistakes, everyone is in the SAME LEVEL as you and that we are all human with the same consciousness. Failure and making mistakes is always okay and it's a lesson that life gives you so you avoid to do it all over again. Even if it seems like a whole loop for you, it's because that you haven't analysed the full patterns of why you keep on experiencing it, so try to learn how to realise it's patterns so you could realise the mistakes.

-Spend less time with people with a bad influence, sometimes people make you feel ashamed just to get a reaction from you/so they can feel good about themselves/so they can try to bring you down, in conclusion, there are people in our lives that try to manipulate us to make us seem like bad people. Obviously as well just try to spend more time with people who care about you since they help you develop well and distract yourself from awful thoughts.

• If you feel like you hate yourself to the point where you can't accept it so you hurt yourself:

-Fake being positive to yourself till you make it, or fake it till you make it. Look yourself on the mirror and think to yourself "I am actually really nice looking, I can for sure kick some ass!" or however you guys do it .

-Everyone has flaws in their lives, but obviously you only tend to look at the bad features on yourself because you are used to how you look because from all your lives you looked at yourself the most. You can try to take a picture of yourself, block out the feature that you hate the most and admire the rest of the features that you love on your face and body, you can brag about it, glorify it and whatever else that makes you feel good that is healthy to do.

-If you hate yourself mentally though, theres always time in your life for improvement, people's personalities including yours can always change from time to time as well, like days, weeks, months, it is clearly enough time to learn how to love and care for yourself.

• Apart from all these

-Get rid of all the items you use to harm yourself. Yes its easier said than done, but realise that the longer you have these things, the more you put yourself in hot water, if you don't do the right action then why complain since it doesn't even give an outcome in your life?

-Do something you love to do, like a hobby that you're experienced in for example sketching, running, sports etc.

-Write a safety plan so you avoid self harming more. For example:

First, writing down what you think that makes you want to self harm

Second, list down the coping strategies which are safe and helpful for you.

Third, list a way your family/friends can help you and support you in the way you want it to be and to inform them so you get what you want.

Lastly, and most importantly to not forget, contact details of your doctor or helpline.

-Do what's called "riding the wave" which is a way to delay self harm. It can be hard to delay self harm so starting with small amounts can help, like trying to wait 30 seconds before you self harm, if you succeed then wait 30 seconds again, you can later increase the time and repeat it until you conclude that you don't want to do it.

Oh yeah most importantly also you definitely don't want to fuck yourself up as much as Nickocado Avocado did himself.

Carrot is out now, remember that cutting is bad.

FACK

Everything is false, good never exists, there is no point in living, what am i living for? This kind of life has no meaning, life has no meaning, boring life has no value no meaning, I don't know what to do, I don't know what I can do? Happiness never comes. Death is the end of life, I am afraid of death, no one wants to die, I am forced, forced!!#%*₤¥>$&"

Thank you for listening to my nonsense

I'm not sure where this comes from, I got it off discord

i got too silly while self harming blehhh

got my arm sewn at the hospital so nothing bad happened to me(bad information for u fucking incels), but i did took out stiches to make this scar look fine the next day hehe

im fine already, ty :3

hugs and kisses to all hot self harming bitches, love u and take care <3