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BRIEF LIST OF TOPICS

1). What is self-harm?
2). Why do people self-harm? Psychological and biological reasons.
3). Common self-harm terminology in online communities.
4). Types of self-harm [GRAPHIC]
5). [META] Why do people watch self-harm content?

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1). What is self-harm?

Self-harm is the act of purposeful pain caused to oneself. People can engage in this behaviour consciously or unknowingly.
Many people do not realize their outlet for negative (or even positive) emotions is classified as self-harm. The example that comes to mind, is a tattoo artist I used to know, who would do tattoos on himself to feel the pain when upset.
From the outside, it doesn't seem like the typical self-harm method, but the psychological and biological reasoning is the exact same.
Self-injury is typically done without the intention to end one's life.
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2). Why do people self-harm? Psychological and biological reasons.

Generally, it's to cope with negative emotions, especially when you have no other (healthy) way to work through your issues.
Important thing to mention is, self-harm is very addictive. More on that later.

//Interactions between psychology and biology//

The quote "Self-harm changes emotional pain into physical pain" might seem cliché, but that's the reality.
When it comes to sensing physical and emotional pain, our brains use the same two areas: the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex.

These are the areas in the brain that process pain, regardless of whether we stubbed our toe or found out our parents are dead.
Pain relievers also act on these two areas, regardless of whether someone is experiencing emotional or physical pain. A 2010 study in Psychological Science revealed that the pain relievers such as Tylenol or paracetamol (acetaminophen) helped to relieve the distress associated with social rejection and also decreased activity in the anterior insula and the anterior cingulate cortex.

People who self-harm, have learned that, while the pain peaks with self-injury, it then comes down the other side.
The physical pain lessens – as does the emotional pain.

//Addiction//

Self-harm is incredibly addictive in its nature.
Recent neurobiological work indicates that drug addiction is due in part to the positive reinforcement associated with increasing extracellular dopamine levels in the brain.
Similarly, self-harm is believed to stimulate dopamine production in the brain, and the feelings of relief this hormone helps produce can lead vulnerable people to become addicted to the process.

//Strictly psychological reasons//

a) Acting out on impulse when under high emotional distress, clouded judgement, feeling the need to act out on one's overwhelming emotions
b) The belief you deserve to be hurt, self-blame, generally an attitude developed due to trauma (C-PTSD, PTSD, Borderline personality disorder).
c) Self-hate, this one is most likely going to lead to suicidal ideation.
d) Feelings of emotional numbness (caused by depression, dysthymia, cyclothymia, bipolar type 2) which cause the person affected to desperately try find a way to feel something. This reason is strongly tied to the mechanism described in //Interactions between psychology and biology//
e) Feelings of grandiosity, beliefs of one's immortality and greatness caused by mania (bipolar, especially type 1).
f) Poor emotional regulation, emotional outburts (borderline, autism).
g) Distraction from negative feelings, stopping traumatic memories and dissociation.
h) Craving and gaining a distorted sense of control in your life.
i) Self-hard addiction, without any additional reasons.
j) Having something in life that one can always rely on.
k) Real or perceived guilt.
l) "Attention-seeking", believing you need to do something drastic for people to care about you or believe you're experiencing issues.
m) Having no healthy outlet for emotions.
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3). Common self-harm terminology in online communities.

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4). Types of self-harm.

|CUTTING|

Probably the most common form of self-harm. No need for an explanation.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|REMOVING PARTS OF BODY|

Ripping off body fat, ripping off skin, removing parts of tissue.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|PIERCING|

Stabbing oneself, pushing objects into your body.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|BURNING|

No explanation needed.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|CARVING OR SCARIFICATION|

Carving/homemade scarification is about cutting/burning/etc patterns onto your skin.
This is also a body modification procedure, but people depicted in the following photos are doing this with the intention to cause oneself pain.
Some people prefer this to normal cutting since it requires more focus (it's more calming, takes away attention from your issue) and leaves prettier, more innocuous scars.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|DELIBERATE SELF-NEGLECT|

This can involve many behaviours, it's about neglecting your health (broken bones, illness, diet, wounds, etc)
The images I have unfortunately only portray two of these types.

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|NOT LETTING INJURIES HEAL|

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|BLOODLETTING|

IMAGES AND VIDEOS:

|OTHER:|

Hitting, medicine misuse, drug consumption, biting, bone-breaking, choking.
While I do have examples of hitting, I feel uncomfortable including it in this post since it's mostly autisic meltdowns lol
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5). Why do people watch self-harm?

The reason why I'm such a big advocate for keeping the self-harm category on this site is because I know for a fact many self-harmers watch this type of content to stop harming their own self.
Seeing someone else do what you associate with relief, dopamine, and help can to some extent let you feel the associated feelings.

It's all thanks to empathy and imagination. You either empathize with the person harming themselves, which your brain can turn to actual sensations on your body, or you imagine that person is you.
Neither of those are exactly a healthy coping mechanism but it's a hundred times better than actually, physically harming yourself.

Of course, that's not the only reason (although the most important). Some people just watch it out of curiosity, or for the same reason you watch regular gore.
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!Closing notes!

It's often difficult for people who don't self-harm to understand why anyone would. But knowing about this bit of neuroscience might help make self-harm a little less mysterious.
Shedding a bit of light on the subject was my intention here, hopefully this will create a bit more understanding.

Man records himself bleeding out then uploads it online. I've seen this video a couple years back and I don't know if it's on here but decided to share it. I don't know any more info besides what he says in the video.

A lot of videos that are already uploaded on here, but some aren‘t.

So what is an Eating Disorder?:

Eating disorders are serious mental and physical illnesses that involve complex and damaging relationships with food, eating, exercise, and body image. These disorders impact approximately 20 million women and 10 million men in the United States and are found in all populations regardless of age, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, sex, gender, etc.

What are the different types of Eating Disorder's?:

• Anorexia Nervosa

For Anorexia Nervosa to be diagnosed, the DSM-5 specifies that the individual must engage in persistent energy intake restriction, have an intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, or be engaging in a persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, and the individual has a disturbance in their own perception of their body weight or shape. These individuals often present with a bodyweight that is “below a minimally normal level for age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health,” but this is not always the case. You cannot determine if someone struggles with anorexia based on their body appearance alone.

Criteria:

Restriction of energy intake relative to requirements, leading to significantly low body weight in the context of age, sex, developmental trajectory, and physical health,

Intense fear of gaining weight or of becoming fat, or persistent behavior that interferes with weight gain, even though at a significantly low weight,

Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or persistent lack of recognition of the seriousness of the current low body weight

Images of a Woman with Severe Anorexia Nervosa:

This woman feed's off of the fact that she looks sick. It make's her happy. It's a high. She see's nothing wrong with her being this ill.

Images of Men with Severe Anorexia Nervosa:

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• Bulimia Nervosa

Bulimia Nervosa is characterized by three essential features: “recurrent episodes of binge eating, recurrent inappropriate compensatory behaviors to prevent weight gain, and self-evaluation that is unduly influenced by body shape and weight. An individual must engage in these behaviors at least once per week for three months to meet the criteria for diagnosis. Referring to the first feature, a binge is characterized by an individual “eating, in a discrete period of time, an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most individuals would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances” and that the individuals feel “a sense of lack of control over eating during the episode.

Criteria:

Recurrent episodes of binge eating, which are characterized by BOTH of the following; “Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).

Recurrent, inappropriate compensatory behaviors in order to prevent weight gain, such as self-induced vomiting; misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or other medications; fasting; or excessive exercise.

The binge eating and inappropriate compensatory behaviors both occur, on average, at least once a week for 3 months.

Self-evaluation is unduly influenced by body shape and weight.

The disturbance does not occur exclusively during episodes of anorexia nervosa

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Images of people that suffer with either Anorexia or Bulimia are usually similar. The main way to tell is by their faces.

Photo of Woman with ANA:

Photo of Woman with BMA:

Main difference are their cheeks. People who suffer with ANA usually have smile lines and their cheeks are sucked in giving them a skeleton look. While people who suffer with BMA usually have chubby cheeks due to the enlargement of salivary glands.

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• Binge Eating Disorder (BED)

Binge Eating Disorder, commonly referred to as BED is the most common eating disorder diagnosis among all others. The DSM-5 specifies that BED involves binge eating episodes defined as mentioned above in the Bulimia Nervosa diagnosis. BED differs from Bulimia Nervosa in that BED involves no recurrent use of inappropriate behaviors to compensate for binge episodes and does not occur exclusively during anorexia or bulimia episodes. BED also does not include an individual's perception of body shape and weight in diagnostic criteria.

Criteria:

• Recurrent episodes of binge eating, which are characterized by BOTH of the following: “Eating, in a discrete period of time (e.g. within any 2-hour period), an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under similar circumstances. A sense of lack of control over eating during the episode (e.g. a feeling that one cannot stop eating or control what or how much one is eating).

• The binge-eating episodes are associated with three (or more) of the following:

-Eating much more rapidly than normal.

-Eating until feeling uncomfortably full.

-Eating large amounts of food when not feeling physically hungry.

-Eating alone because of feeling embarrassed by how much one is eating.

-Feeling disgusted with oneself, depressed, or very guilty afterward.

• Marked distress regarding binge eating is present

• The binge eating occurs, on average, at least once a week for 3 months.

• The binge eating is not associated with the recurrent use of inappropriate compensatory behavior as in bulimia nervosa and does not occur exclusively during the course of bulimia nervosa or anorexia nervosa.

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Images of Women that suffer with BED:

Images of Men that suffer with BED:

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Fatal Cases of Each Disorder:

Anorexia Nervosa & Bulimia Nervosa

A 22-year-old woman who had suffered from anorexia for 10 years and had collapsed several times was admitted to a psychiatric clinic but died 2 days later.

At autopsy, the body of the woman had an extremely emaciated physique and weighed 22.6 kg (49.8 lbs) with a body length of 165 cm (5′ 4.9′′) and a body mass index (BMI) of 8.3 or very severely underweight.

No fatty tissue could be seen. Internal organs were small and appeared child-like. Excess accumulation of fluid (edema) in the brain. Dry body tissues. Urine alcohol concentration 0.04 ‰. Femoral blood: 20 ng / ml diphenhydramine, 0.00 ‰ BAK; 31.7 mmol / L (normal 29-42) HbA1c; 6.1 mg / l acetone; 23 μmol / L acetoacetate; 225 μmol / L β-hydroxybutyrate. The amount of diphenhydramine found in the femoral blood sample is in the therapeutic range.

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Binge Eating Disorder

28-74% of risk for eating disorders is through genetic heritability.

Eating disorders are among the deadliest mental illnesses, second only to opioid overdose.

10,200 deaths each year are the direct result of an eating disorder—that's one death every 52 minutes.

About 26% of people with eating disorders attempt suicide.

30% of people dealing with eating disorders have experienced sexual abuse.

None of these disorder's should be made fun of, they are the same as any other mental illness.

If you know someone with an Eating Disorder, talk to them, don't make fun of them.

https://anad.org/get-help/treatment-directory

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Little background, 3th grade HIGHSCHOOL japanese girl, known from her self harm twitter account: @ shiori_cha_1 private account: @ shiori_cha_0

Presumably a drug addict or severely mentally ill. Up to this date, oc has not seen medical help.

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

https://www.gorecenter.com/man-took-out-his-eye-and-then-ate-it

i don't have much context about this video. I just know I got it on 4chan a long time ago and it seems to be a suicidal teenager named Justin.

Ima be off this site for a couple months this shit not good for ur brain LMAO, but thought id post this before I go for y'all weirdos

"Do consider logging off. Watching these videos doesn't improve your life in any way. I'm not your dad, though, so whatever." - CLiTPEELER

Main Points:

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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.

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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.

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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