Why is self harming so addictive?

Self-harming can be addictive for various reasons. This depends on the motivation for harming in the first place. I know for my personal experience people often say that self harm makes the 'feel better'. This can be due to the pain causing a rush of endorphins being released into the body in response to the pain. Endorphins are a hormone associated with elevated mood and feelings of relaxation. One reason self harm can become addictive is that we crave that endorphin rush again and again.

Makes you think the pain goes away bc a chemical in your brain is released when you hurt physically.

Physical pain can relieve psychological pain, so when you know there is a way to suffer a little less, you tend to do whatever it takes to feel better, at the risk of becoming addicted to self harm because you'll always need more self harming to relieve new pain, over and over again.

Our attention diverts to the physical pain over the mental, and we find that it's easier to face physical pain. We find out hurting ourselves makes us feel better mentally, so we keep resorting back to that when we are sad because at low points we will do anything to feel alright.

Self harm is addictive because it temporarily stops you from focusing on the pain in your head. Instead you focus on the pain you're actually feeling. Causing some to feel relief so they want to do it more, but it won't do anything than cause more pain.

Self harm is so addictive because it's like drugs. When you do drugs, it's usaslly for a reason or an escape. This is the same reason people self harm. For an escape even if it only last for a few minutes. It's addictive because after that escape, you feel down again and the only way you know how to get an escape is to self harm.

There are a lot of factors, I believe. There's definitely the feeling you get from it, that release of endorphins. For some people, it could also be the look of the scars, seeing themselves bleed, etc. It really varies from person to person.

Self harm is so addictive because people try too hard to hide what they have inside and, in the moment they need to "kill that mosters" the only way they find is self harm, because for them it's really difficult to talk to someone about how they feel.

Because it can take over your entire being, every thought, every action. You can become entirely consumed with harming yourself. Some people harm to do it as a punishment to themselves, they need to be punished, they need to hurt, others do it because they need the control in their lives.

Personally for me I found self harm addictive because I found it more of a punishment and that I deserved to be hurting.

It can be seen as a control thing, as you know you can only push yourself further... if that makes sense. You play play mind games with yourself over how far you can take it, as you feel it's the only thing you can control. Anorexic's tend to do the same thing, but with the amount of weight they can lose in a week to how many calories they will intake on a daily basis.

It's a coping mechanism and pulls you in to a cycle. Your brain craves any kind of stimulation and the pain from self harm gives that as the brain is so un stimulated it will take any kind of energy as a relief from the nothingness. This is why it's encouraged to watch comedies, eat spicy foods and get exercise when depressed.

It's addictive for me, because it makes me feel good. There are some issues you may get after it, but it makes you feel better and I mean who doesn't want to feel better?

The sencation and the blood. The secantion, that we can feel something other than pain. Blood, in order we don't see only black and white.

I guess that it makes the individual express oneself best by claiming that they hate themselves so that's why they harm themselves. It is a method for those who do it to "secretly cry for help" and say, without uttering a word, that they are depressed and need help

Self-harm releases soothing chemicals in the brain like a drug. Eventually, you crave the chemicals more and more and it seems to be a quick fix to feel better in the moment.

Self-Harm is in my opinion the minds way of taking the pain you feel inside and showing it on your body in an attempt to make sense of it. It is so addictive as for the first time in so long you feel something other than numbness and sadness.

Because it makes you feel control and on once u start it becomes an addiction, a craving to carry on doing it.

Its because self harm allows the self harmer to escape from the painful reality of the world by getting ecstasy and numbing feeling. It is addictive as its later develop as a companion when the self harmer is suffering. They feel lonely and self harming is the only way they could feel human again.

Why is self harming is so addictive? It's addictive because to the brain you feel less stress and you think you feel better and those scars you left they calm you down.