What exactly counts as self harm?
Elysian
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Jan 25, 2015
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Any form of deliberate self injury counts as self harm. The most common forms of self harm are cutting and burning, although there are other forms e.g skin-picking, scratching, bruising on purpose etc
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KatHellsing
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Jul 7, 2015
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Anything you do to purposely harm yourself. Such as cutting, burning, scratching biting, hitting, breaking your own bones, giving yourself a rug burn, exc. Just anything to hurt yourself on purpose. Thats where the term "Self Harm" comes from.
bubblybliss12
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Jan 27, 2015
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I believe that self harm counts as anything that could possibly inflict pain towards you. Whether it'd be physical or emotional. You could do self-mutilation to your body , take an overdose of pills or be listening to music that causes emotional pain.
Chantelly121
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Oct 11, 2016
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Anything that is intentionally meant to harm you, and is inflicted by you. This can range from physical, to emotional, to socially
Anonymous
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Feb 8, 2016
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Any wound self inflicted on purpose. This includes scratching, hair pulling, pitching, punching, cutting, burning, hitting, and many other things. Although cutting is a type of self-harm, it isn't the only type. Just as people come in all shapes and sizes, self-harm does, as well. So anything that involves harming yourself on purpose in anyway, counts as self-harm.
Anonymous
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Dec 23, 2019
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Self harm can take many forms, many many forms. It could be cutting yourself (not necessarily with a knife or a blade, anything that cuts counts), or burning yourself in any way, starving yourself, or eating way beyond being full, it can be depriving yourself of sleep, getting yourself in stressful situations, getting yourself in dangerous situations such as wondering alone at night on dangerous streets, it can also be biting yourself, hitting yourself, or even trying to get hurt by someone else, it can be staying with someone toxic for you even though you know you shouldn't, or also being self depreciating...self harm takes many many forms
Anonymous
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Apr 2, 2015
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Being angry to our own self counts already as a simple self harm. In life there are many things that could make us harm ourselves, but remember that there are also good and amazing things life has to offer.
StayStrong152
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Jun 28, 2016
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Self harm would be anything that you do that could potentially cause harm to yourself. There's a misconception that just cutting would be self harm and that alternatives to self harm could be burning, rubber bands, etc. It could not be more wrong. They cause harm to yourself and they cause you pain. They are not an alternative to self harm in the slightest and tend to make recovery harder.
Gracey
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Apr 24, 2018
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Anything that someone does deliberate that causes them harm physically/emotionally or mentally is classed as self harm
kokako
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May 3, 2015
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I don't that there is an exact definition but it is often regarded as intentional self-injury "SI", (cutting and burning are probably the most common) without suicidal intent.
It does have an official (DSM-V) label - "Non-Suicidal Self-Injury" (NSSI) but privately I am sceptical about that.
In the SI support community it is seen as a way of coping. Helping people who SI to understand why they have chosen SI as a way of coping is probably more constructive than focusing on the physical details.
PeacefulMelody13
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Feb 14, 2017
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Self harm is any way in which you would intentionally cause harm to your body. Any things that hurts you, that you do with the intention of feeling pain, qualifies as self harm.
gentleflower
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May 7, 2015
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Anything that you are doing to yourself that makes you feel pain, mentally or physically. Mostly it is noticed as physical pain (i.e. cutting).
calmZebra60
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Feb 14, 2017
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Self harm is any activity that causes injury to oneself. By extension, disordered eating habits could be considered such, though it isn't traditional. The most common examples are cutting and burning oneself; however, pinching, picking at the skin, and head banging are all examples.
gentleParadise14
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Jun 18, 2015
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Self-harm is any act of deliberately harming your own body as an unhealthy way to cope with emotional pain, intense anger and frustration. Examples include cutting, burning or punching one's self.
creativeSunshine46
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Apr 11, 2016
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Anything that has to do with harming yourself in anyway shape ir form, it could be hitting yourself, cutting, burning, starving, hair pulling, bitting or anything that hurts you
toomanyfandoms12345
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Jun 17, 2016
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Self harm is pretty much anything that you do to harm yourself in any way. This could be by cutting, burning, purging, starving, or many other things.
Bingster123
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Jun 28, 2016
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Any way that your are causing physical harm to your body.
Kyarra
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Oct 17, 2016
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Self-harm is just as the name implies; harm to yourself. This could be cutting or scratching, burning, and some consider addictions and eating disorders to be self-harm as well.
MariiAF
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Nov 1, 2016
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Self harm is any form of hurting yourself like cutting, smoking, burning, scratching, or whatever in their different levels.
EmmaJayLoves
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Jul 23, 2018
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Self harm can actually be many things. As well as cutting, it can also be burning yourself, biting yourself or even pulling out your own hair.
