how often do you self-harm?

[suimaxxer]

the frequency of episodes has increased for me lately. i used to just do it once every few days, but now i do it every day

 

[Maki9]

Do you mean cutting specifically? I don't do it anymore but still picking skin and everything

 

[eyenumbing]

everyday. mainly cutting and drugs

 

[Shadowsight]

Not nearly as often as I'd like.

There have been MANY times(like literally this same time last night lol)where I've wanted to cut(my primary form of SH), but cutting takes a lot of energy for me to do(or at least for me to do in a way that I consider "successful"), and it's not often that I can muster up the energy, so most times I just end up doing nothing. So I probably only do it about once every two weeks at most.

Other things like hitting myself, choking myself, etc. I do more often because they're "easier" for me to do.

 

[Inner]

I cut. It really depends on my healing cuts such as size, depth, area, etc. Picking scabs help pass the time when I'm in long intervals. (:

My last session was ~2 days ago? My right arm has a long vertical cut that's still healing so I'm letting my body work on that for the most part.

 

[Macedonian1987]

I never self harm. My body is doing that on it's own by aging it's joints rapidly and leaving me in chronic pain.

 

[coolliontigerragged]

I used to.. I would mainly do things like super hot showers + not eating or swiping across my wrists with needles juuust enough to where I penetrate but dont scar. Its also dull, so I felt it was more painful??? I would do a combo of that and hand sanitizer afterwards.

For the past few months the thought of doing it has crossed my mind, and I have done it a little recently, but certainly not as much as I once did.

 

[Bitterly_Nostalgic]

Years ago I used to cut, punch, and bite myself very frequently. It was often multiple times a week I would do these.

I worked through the cutting and no longer do it. I hope to never do it again. Unfortunately for a while there, extra biting and punching replaced time that I would've otherwise spent cutting. I also worked on the biting and punching, and had reached a point where I wasn't doing them anymore, but these past several months have put me in a bad state and sometimes I find myself just automatically doing one or the other when I'm extremely upset or stressed. I hate it, and I hate that all the work I put into stopping is starting to slip away. I can't remove access to my teeth or fists like I can with a blade, so stopping was really damn hard in the first place. Self harm is such a difficult habit to break.

 

[Unworthyhuman]

in my mind every hour...

 

[Merocero]

almost every day, every 3-4 days theres a day i wont sh and the next day i will again...

 

[FoxSauce]

I havent cut in a while well since everything sharp is gone from my reach

Unless I can find something, I don't care if I relapsed.