your guys self harm scars ?

[hooman57]

i feel like i never hear about sh over ctb on here
its most likely very prominent among all the users here so i wanna know ur guys stories and how your bodies paint a picture of your life

me personally, i have them on my wrists, forearms, upper arms, shoulders, chest, neck, back
99% blades but 1% cigarette burns too


hope this isnt too taboo for the sigjt either

 

[N-methylamphetamine]

I wish I had the balls to SH

 

[WalmartSoap]

Just on the wrists, a few on the upper thighs. I usually only sh when I want to punish myself for something bad that happened, but I did it more often a few years ago. Stopped for a while because I learned I scar easy.

 

[Khaos_Playground]

I have a lot along my forearm but I haven't self harmed in so long theyre just white splashes, switched from self harming to excersizing heavily instead when I was younger like around 17 I think? just because its about as much pain but it makes me happier and is actually healthy for me. I used to get comments on the scars before they healed more when I wasn't able to wear a hoodie now people barely notice them which is nice

 

[explosiveKai99]

Got some scars. Used to treat them like ornaments. Now I don't care. Wouldn't want people to see them or comment so I walk around covered.

Don't do it anymore either. Used to be kind of emotional ritual, but am too numb for a few years already.

 

[wannabeangel]

my scars are mainly on my left wrist/forearm and upper/mid thigh because im right handed, they're all white now but my deepest one i still get phantom pains from cuz i damaged the nerve. i dont regret my scars or try to hide them or remove them, my mom talks about me maybe getting a tattoo to cover them up but i really couldnt care less about covering it at all i would just want a tattoo lol. she always told me since i was 12 i would basically regret it when i was older, as an adult and clean for over 3 years now i dont regret what i did to myself i just regret the situations it caused in my youth, i would still cut if i didnt have to worry about getting my physical health taken seriously and not overlooked by my mental struggles

 

[BehindTheWorld]

i've only cut a couple of times. i like the feeling, but not the fact that the scars remain very visible.

 

[pony No.2]

i feel like i never hear about sh over ctb on here
its most likely very prominent among all the users here so i wanna know ur guys stories and how your bodies paint a picture of your life

me personally, i have them on my wrists, forearms, upper arms, shoulders, chest, neck, back
99% blades but 1% cigarette burns too


hope this isnt too taboo for the sigjt either

i haven't cut in a while, i keep thinking about it, i have been cutting since 12, i prefer my arms but i have to resort to my legs sometimes. i have scars on my arms and thighs

 

[violetforever]

the most visible self harm scars i have are on my wrists. each of my wrists has one scar thats big or white enough to be noticeable at first glance but if u look closer on the left wrist theres other faint scars. i think the scar on my right wrist is wider because i cut with my non dominant hand and had bad control. i have faint scars on my shoulders because i cut there too. i cut all of these when i was 11 so i didnt really think about how permanent they would be. i guess theyre "visible" but im never around people when im wearing anything revealing enough to show the scars on my thighs. the scars there are faint but i cant remember if i cut them when i was 11 or a few years ago when i relapsed. the one scar that i know is recent is the only noticeably white/wider one because i intentionally cut so it would turn out that way. i regret it now like the rest of my scars but oh well.

my other self harm scars that i dont think people perceive as self harm or at all are:
- a scar on my knee that ive had since childhood (it was from playing/by accident) that i recut over and made wider…
- a scar on my hand below my thumb thats so small and faint even i hardly notice its there
- a long scar on my leg thats too thin and faint now (i impulsively dug a shaving razor into my skin and just dragged it up my leg so its like 2 parallel lines lol)
- tiny scars on 2 toes because i felt like cutting but i didnt want more scars in noticeable places lol

no ive never wrote this in depth about my scars before.

 

[Playingwiththedead]

I used to cut myself all the time and when i did i would only cut designs, like tattoos, except for the few times where i did names lol. But i always thought it didnt mean enough to just swipe swipe swipe so i did something i thought was cool. I dont regret them, and the scars have faded almost all the way except for the A initial on my arm of the most important guy i met in life, it was 2 years ago but its still visible because i made it deep on purpose

 

[plskilme]

When I do SH its usually always in the same spot and I don't go too deep. I just mainly do it to feel something, and vecause I know if some people in my life knew I did it, they would 100% baker act me. It is however pretty noticeable at this point, but if the off chance people as me about it, I have some bullshit excuse I stick with. I also tried to stab myself near my heart once and have a tiny SH scar on there. Thankfully people don't see that one because I keep my shirt on . But every day I see my fishing knife on my dresser and I get tempted af to pick it up. Shit calls out to me like the green goblin mask tbh. My life has really gone down the shitter since finishing high school (which was 9 years ago now).

 

[CrowsFeather]

I have one longer cut on my wrist where I tried opening my veins... And failed (surprise!)
And some burns I made with a hot blade on my arms. They look like cuts due to the shape, though. Pretty visible too, but I don't give a fuck. No one cares anyway

 

[Bootleg Astolfo]

I have so many of them on my arms that they stopped being noticeable and look more like ''texture'' than anything else. I dont even have to hide them.
Granted, my ocd made it uh... probably look like literally anything else than normal cuts since theyre all like, the same lenght/dept/etc, but still.

 

[NonEssential]

I used to cut my right arm but I had changed over to cutting my thighs. Funnily enough it's possible to see some on the arm but barely anything on the thighs.

 

[dragonofenvy]

Mostly on my shoulders. A few small ones on my wrists and arms but I think some of them are probably just regular scars they're so hard to notice. I also have one on my nose because I didn't like my nose as a teenager and decided to cut it for some reason.

 

[balladeer]

Both forearms completely covered, Insatiable urge to ruin and fill in the parts that remain untouched before moving to other places. Started at 13 where I picked up my eyebrow razor for the first time as an act of 'punishment' because I failed to fast for an extended amount of period (had an eating disorder).
I don't remember much after, I only ever did styros and beans. Anything less than that leaves me extremely frustrated and dissatisfied. It is both an act of extreme self loathing and an approach to feel something— or perhaps nothing at all.

 

[desiderium]

I find self-harms scars to be so damn pretty.

I love mine. I love the act of making them, love the sharp sting and welling of blood as it pools on my skin. I love the way they heal, the way they look, and the way they stick out ever so slightly on my skin as pale lines. I can never go deeper than styros or baby beans due to an immune disorder (I wouldn't be able to heal anything deeper), so most of my scars are thin, pale lines that litter my left forearm, shoulder, both hips, and both thighs. I wish desperately to obtain some deeper and thicker scars, but unfortunately my body wouldn't be able to close those type of wounds on my own without stitches.

 

[Preh1storic_Rib]

I've only traditionally self harmed twice or so. Only one scarred, it's along the middle of my inner left arm and it's very faint now.

I do however, have a handful of scars from picking at wounds gotten just from existing.
On my right forearm is one my sibling says looks like the Nike logo, I've grown to like it. A lot of the skin on my toes is rough and scarred from frost nip(not officially checked out so I might be incorrect on that). My knee is dented in when I don't bend it because I took my stiches out early as a kid when I tripped over a hose. I have a very faint thin scar under my eye from when I did construction. A million cat scratch scabs pulled away before they could heal.

I would say my self harm more manifests as a lack of urgency with medical issues, over eexercising, mild pill overdose, and hitting myself/banging my head. I am really into scarification though. If I ever settle on a design I'd love to get some done.

 

[LoveIsLonely]

I have very large and visible sh marks on my wrist and legs and I'm just very open about it. I keloid really bad so my marks always leave large raised scars. They are impossible to hide unless I'm wearing long sleeves. I cut pretty deep and I usually try to go at least an inch and a half per cut. I need to feel it.

 

[themisfit]

I have them on my wrists. Hardly ever do people ask about it, but I believe they are very visible

I tried to CTB in 2023 before I knew this site and knew nothing about methods

I hated my scars so much right after I realized I wouldn't die and had ruined my arms

But I thought there were ways to get rid of them. I got mad when I realized there weren't

I have tried paramedical tattooing and laser treatment. They helped, but the scars are still very visible

I have strong suicidal ideation because of them

I die inside just to know that I will never have my wrists back again

 

[decadance]

i have some on my upper arms, i made those cuts in the past year. i like doing it there bc you can cover it with a tshirt. i might get a tattoo over them in the future. bc they're pretty deep. when i was little i cut a lot all over my wrists and arms but over time those completely went away since they were more shallow. i have one big scar on my thigh that i made when i was younger, its white and barely noticeable but its there

 

[Green Destiny]

I used to self harm but not by cutting myself, I self harmed by hitting myself in the head really hard with my fists. Sometimes if I was having a bad episode I would actually headbutt the wall as hard as I could. Managed to dent the drywall in my house as a result.

 

[LRkin]

My SH scars are small and I deliberately cut myself in places no one will notice. Inner side of my shin and my forearms (in places I can cover with sleeves or socks). And some of them are strategically located near my old scars from my job (I was a veterinarian, so there are a lot of bite and scratch marks)

 

[Ludath]

Scars on my forearms and thighs. Used to use a box cutter but swapped to a nice knife. I always wear jeans and a sweater even in heat but not to cover them, it's because I can't stand anything touching my skin due to constant anxiety. Lately I've started punching myself, and I've turned both my legs black with bruises. I try not to cut anymore, but still want to. Hitting myself keeps me from doing it for now.

 

[hello kitty]

i feel like i never hear about sh over ctb on here
its most likely very prominent among all the users here so i wanna know ur guys stories and how your bodies paint a picture of your life

me personally, i have them on my wrists, forearms, upper arms, shoulders, chest, neck, back
99% blades but 1% cigarette burns too


hope this isnt too taboo for the sigjt either

on my skinny ribs

 

[worldsworst]

I have scars on both of my thighs along with my right lower leg (though they are all mostly light now) I also have some on both my forearms and my left shoulder is covered with them. I think I had tried to cut one of my wrists once but there is no evidence of it anymore

 

[infinitesimal]

thighs, left arm, right arm, and my neck during an unfortunate episode. all from cutting with blades or scratching with my own fingernails when my blades get confiscated.

there are significantly more scars on my left arm than my right, and my thighs have the deepest ones. thigh and left arm scars are very, very visible because of recency and their tendency to go keloid. thankfully, my neck scars are barely visible from first glance.

i purposely delay the healing of my own scars by picking at my scabs so that they keep bleeding and stinging for longer. i used to do deeper cuts (beans, as they call it. i never went deeper than that because i basically never treat my wounds since i was living with my parents at the time. stitches would be risky.) but now i go shallower (styro) because i have found that they virtually make no difference to me and i was tired of multiswiping.

now that im an adult, everyone knows i cut myself so i dont bother covering myself up anymore.

i dont self harm as of late, im too busy to even consider doing so plus i find it pointless now

 

[Insufficent]

Couple of cigarette burns on forearm

 

[roborabbit]

Got a maybe 6in long 1cm wide scar from an attempt when I was a teen on one arm. Faded patch of old, thin, scars on the other, along with some recent thicker, darker scarring. Hate it.

Patches of scars on scars, cutting and burning, on my thighs. Its really fucking ugly.

 

[Radiated]

Only one on my upper arm from when I accidentally went too deep, stopped for a while afterwards because I didn't want my family to find out.