First time you ever experimented with self-harm?

When I first self harmed, I was 13 years old. I was exposed to it trough my cousin after my mom committed suicide and I turned to it as a coping mechanism/self punishment. I haven't actually attempted to self harm since I was 16, and I'm 19 now. My new outlets are music and comic art.

I'm only just coming to terms with this, but I self-harmed between the ages of 13 and 15. I was going through a tough time at home and school and I pulled my eyelashes out with tweasers, gradually over that 2-3 year period. All my eyelashes, top and bottom,, and in my Year 9 school photo I have no eyelashes at all. I'm now 20 years old and it's been a blow to realise that I did this. I'm ashamed and embarrassed, but amazed that I managed to stop.

i have been depressed and self harming since i was 12, i am now still struggling with it, at 15

I was 6 or 7. I was always being wrongly punished so I thought I would do it so they wouldn't punish me anymore.

The fist time i cut was when i was 10, my brother had killed himself and i saw no light. Im 16 now and im heavily addicted, i dont even need a reason to do it anymore....now i do it to make sure im capable of felling things different than lonliness

The first time I self harmed was when I was 11. I had just came home from school, where every one calls me an idiot, saying I have no sole. Like I would never belong. My mom called me a brat and keeped yelling at me. I picked up the pocketknife I keeped it my room and made a cut on my arm. Then Another and then a another! I am 16 now but I still struggle with it.

I was in grade school. I don't really know how old I was but I remember that I had stabbed my shoulder with a pen out of anger at myself. I remember even punching myself there.

I was a senior in high school. I don't even remember why I did it. I started by scratching with safety pins, a few days later I moved on to using an x-acto knife. I cut once or twice and then I didn't cut again until I was thirty.

I was actually very scared. I didn't know how it would feel but cutting just came as a natural response that day. I remember crying in the shower, watching the water turn red. After that I didn't do it for a few days. But then the same thing happened. It started happening more and more until it was every day. I was clean for about 5 years when suddenly a few months ago I relapsed. I felt myself falling back into my depression and my anxiety was not under control but I didn't do anything about it. Currently I'm almost a week clean but the only thing stopping me is the massage I have coming up..

it was maybe an accidnet honestly, i was in high school it just happened i got a knife and cut myself it was the first of many i would say, i dont think of it much since i dont do it like on a montly basis sometimes. it does bother me i just ignore more but i feel i am a bit of a machiosit now i like the way it stings it feels good.