First time you ever experimented with self-harm?

2013. I was on too much medication and to stop my anger response of hitting something I dug at my arm

I started self harm when i was JUST 10. I don't know what drives me to that. But I just did. At first it hurt, a lot, but then i feel the relief inside me after hurting myself.

I rarely do that nowadays. I have been clean for like 3 months.

I started self harm when i was JUST 10. I don't know what drives me to that. But I just did. At first it hurt, a lot, but then i feel the relief inside me after hurting myself.

I rarely do that nowadays. I have been clean for like 3 months.

I started when I was 12. I was taking this huge test and I started to panic. I got so upset that I ran my mechanical pencil all along my arm until it started to bleed. It started as a way to punish myself for messing up the test, but now it's just a coping mechanism.

Okay, when I was about 8 years old I developed trichotillomania, a hair-pulling disorder. I pulled out all my eyelashes and it really freaked my parents out. They were/are under the impression that it is a bad habit that will go away. In fact, my dad used to spank me for pulling out my eyelashes. Anyways so that happened. Because I didn't have eyelashes, I was bullied throughout middle school, and I met a girl who cut and I decided to try it for myself. I cut of and on throughout middle school, and things escalated when I got to high school. I got called into the counselor's office because someone had seen my cuts. She called my mother in and my mom told her we would look into getting some help. That never happened, so I still cut off and on throughout high school and then I was clean for almost a year and a half and then I relapsed. Then I went off to college away from home and I had the best first semester. I had great friends, I managedmy stress well and I really enjoyed myself. Then second semester my friend group feel apart and I felt abandoned and isolated. I started cutting again. I was very good at hiding it. I went home for the summer and had a pretty good summer. For my third semester, I was hired as a resident assistant, which is a very high stress job, and to cope with the stress, started cutting again! And now I am in my fourth semester and I am still cutting and pulling out my eyelashes, and I don't know how to get help without risking losing my job.

When I was really young. My stepdad would make me sleep by myself while my younger sister slept with him and my mom. I would cry my self to sleep while scratching my cheeks. I still have the scars on my cheeks...

I was 8 years old when I first self harmed. It wasn't major, it was just a biting myself type thing.. But it escalated at 11 years old to binging, purging, cutting and burning myself.. Wasn't great. I still mess up sometimes and self harm, however I haven't for a few weeks and it feels great knowing I finally have will power not to self harm!

I was 12 when I first tried it.

i flirted with the idea of self harm but never broke skin when i was in middle school. then in college, when i suffered from extreme depression due to being in abusive friendships and relationships, i became addicted. i would hide it by cutting on my upper arms or on my hips. i have since beat the addiction, and have been free from it for about two years now! i still have awful scars and it's a bad reminder, but i hope to one day get beautiful tattoos over them so i don't feel so bad when i see them. just inspiration that you all can get through this and move on!

I was feeling really bad, it was at 2 am and i was having a panic attack. I started hitting myself (i was mad at myself for being sad) then i dug my nails in my arm.