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i am 17 and first started cutting at 11 at first it was a cut here a cut there then it became alot more often and eventually became everyday when i was stressed i'd cut when i was angry i'd cut when i had any thing in my life that i...

I am 17, and never thought i would begin to self harm. For the past few months I have been feeling completely numb. I feel nothing. I don't care, and it scares me. So I just took the scissors and started cutting, i was glad i felt...

I'm 17, i've been cutting for a few months. I didnt mean for it to get this far, so that i couldnt stop and so that i needed to do it to survive and cope. 

At the same time, i wish i had thought of doing it all those years when...

I do it for multiple reasons, but the main one is that the pain makes me calmer.  Whatever I am feeling inside, however intolerable it is, I do enough damage, it goes away...So it's soothing.  Sometimes I do it just for that, like I'm...

My name is Chantelle and i started cutting when i was 11, I'm 13 and a half now and still cut. At first they were just lil scratches. Never broke skin but now there lots of blood. I hate myself and everyday wish i would die. I'm not a...

Hey, i'm 18 and i started self-harming from the age of 7. I felt like everybody hated me and that they didn't want me. I never used to get on with my mum because i thought she always favoured my older sister so we used to bicker all the...

I lost a lot of respect for Dara O'Brian tonight. He did a piece on surfing, and described how the coins on the surfboard cut and bruised his legs up. Then he said 'I looked like some weird emo chick.' I found that awful. Like my...

I'm theerteen and i've been cutting since January and finally i told my friend she is incoureged me to stop so i decided to take the butterfly challenge. What you do is you draw a butterfly where you want to cut you name the butterfly...

Well, im fifteen years old, i live in texas! its pretty legit. but uh
on the topic of self harm, im a cutter ive been cutting since i was 11 years old its deffinatley gotten much worse over the years,ive been to treatment for it . i...

i have been self harming for 2 years it started when i was 12 i was sexualy abused by my brothes friend and i found relief in picking at my skin with a pin then i started scratching the skin away with a pin or needle.. then i started to...

First of all, I am a 34 year old Male and I Self Harm. I don't really know what led to this, but I have many factors. I have had Bipolar since I was young, and also had to deal with a lot, so any of those things could have been a...

ok so im starting to hurt myself. but i dont cut. instead i use a safety pin to go underneath my skin. i just keep on going further until blood starts to come out. sometimes i go deeper when it will bleed for several minutes. i usually...

I'm 16 years old and i started cutting myself at the top of my right thigh in the summer holidays of 2012, so not that long ago, 3 and a half months? god it feels like longer...i had been down for a while about many things in my life...

An empty room, an empty girl
Sitting silently on the floor
Her sleeve rolled up, exposing skin
She drags the blade and presses in
The pain it brings cannot compare
To the joy she knows will soon be there
It's worth the scars that...

I found another to hurt myself. So obviously it involves a needle and thread. I sew my skin. I'll sew my skin then i'll rip the thread out so i'll rip off my skin. It burns at first but then it goes away. It doesnt hurt that much. For...

I'm listening to slow, beautiful instrumental music in a darkly-lit room. I slowly roll back my sleeve, exposing my pale forearm. With one hand I hold my sharpest pair of scissors, and with the other I gently finger the blades, then...

I can feel it. It's deep in the pit of my stomach. The acid churns and pops and the muscles ache.

My chest aches and becomes tight. It's hard for me to take a deep breath. The muscles in my throat constrict and the air catches.

My...

You can ask anyone I know, I'm the happiest person to be around. I'm always smiling and joking around, but that's not how I really feel. I'm broken and torn apart. I cry myself to sleep every night. Nobody knows. Nobody. I want to be...

She never smiles,
her pain she hides.
She stares blankly,
only in herself she confides.

she doesn't let anyone in,
too afraid to take the risk.
If you looked, you'd see the bruises,
the scabs and the scars on her wrist.

She has been...

Close your eyes and go to sleep
And dream of all the things that made you weep
You just want all the pain to end
All your life you've had to pretend
Beautiful blade shines so bright
Looking at all the blood and loving the sight...