What is Self-Injury

Self-harm is also known as self-injury (SI), self-inflicted violence (SIV), self-injurious behavior (SIB), and self-mutilation, although this last term has conn...

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I scratch and scratch as hard as I can until I am missing a huge chunk of my skin and then I spray hairspray on it and it stings, which for me is the perfect kind of pain. It hurts sooooo bad, but it makes me feel SOOOOO good. And the wound stays open for at least 2 days so if I need to SI in school I can just go in the bathroom and get out my hairspray. I can even do it during class without anyone noticing. And there are a million other reasons that it is so convenient. The only thing is that in support group everyone else is a 'cutter.' So, i don't know, it's just like they all 'fit in' or 'belong' in the group. And it sucks b/c I don't belong anywhere at all and I thought that by joining this support group that it would let me have some place that I belong in.

I know that it is just me in my head that is making myself feel left out and I am really trying to stop behaving so childish and stop putting words in people's mouths. And just because there's not a specific name for people who do this, it doesn't mean that what I do is pointless and that I don't deserve help for it....now I just have to get myself to believe it.

Does anyone else here feel left out sometimes for a similar reason.
Posted on 05/16/08, 09:05 pm
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Reply #1 - 05/16/08  10:06pm
" its true that most ppl who SI are cutters but i promise you that there are many other ways of hurting yourself...i know ppl who burn themselves, scratch and skin pick, pull their hair out, etc.....there is no reason to feel left out... from this group because we all belong here for our own reasons.

and yes...sometimes i feel left out because im 20 yrs old and i tend to get into these groups and they are full of 14,15,16 yr old or they are full of ppl in their 30s....i often feel alone and left out because i dont feel like i have very many peers who suffer what i suffer through "
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Reply #2 - 05/17/08  4:51am
" I used to cut, but now I burn. Self harm can be done a variety of ways. Also, self harm has sometimes been made to be that which young people do, I am in my thirties and started to self harm in my twenties, which there is not often much information about. "
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Reply #3 - 05/17/08  10:38am
" I burn...so we are not all cutters here. If you need someone to talk to..I am here for you "
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Reply #4 - 05/17/08  10:58am
" i use to do that before i found blades its a great way i no but i would not like to go bac there "
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Reply #5 - 05/17/08  11:46am
" hi,
my pyscholgist broke my heart
it turned round looked me in the eyes and said huh "once a cutter always a cutter" you will never get better :*( "
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Reply #6 - 05/18/08  12:36am
" I do that sometimes. It goes all oozy and gross eh. And coz it doesnt look like a cut nobody knows you did it yourslef. "its just a graze" or "i burnt my hand on boiling water" etc. And no-one ever knows "
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Reply #7 - 05/18/08  9:49pm
" ifeel sorta like i just dont belong in the world "
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