when i needed to punish myself for something stupid i'd hit myself in the head with the heel of my hand....it would be in the moment....people self injure in different way....and if you scratch yourself until you bleed, i would call that cutting.....even if it's with your nails....but just my opinion though.....if i were you, i would try to use other healthy coping skills than self injuring....if you don't wanna go back to the hospital use that as motivation to stop or find other healthy coping skills.....coloring works wonders for me and so do word searches.....hopefully this helped....if you wanna talk, i'm here

Thank you. That did help. I've never heard of anybody hitti g themselves before. I felt weird. I feel more normal now. I do try to cope but it happens sometimes. I think I will take up coloring. Thanks.

I get the feeling of not being good enough because your injuries aren't severe or whatever. I feel like that all the time. But it's not weird, I don't think. I understand a lot of people feel like that. Coloring does work wonders. Painting my nails, sleeping, scribbling also work fairly well too. Hope things look up for you soon.

My ex used to do the hitting the head thing. It was pretty serve. I'm not sure why you feel that way when you see other people's cuts. I mean, for me...whenever my sister talks to me about bad relationships she's in and complains about people being needy and etc. That makes me feel horrible about myself. Cause it makes me think that, that's probably how other people view me. They probably talk about me the way my sister talks about them and it kills me to the point where I feel the urge to cut. I know that story might sound totally unrelated to the topic but...in a way it reminded me of what you said. Like you see their scars and get triggered. You talk about self-harm and you think afterwards about how it might be a good solution to your own problems.

Idk what to say to make things better but I can say that I can relate and hopefully that'll make you feel better...

Hon, people use different ways of self injury...different levels and degrees of severity. It doesn't mean anyone is better than the other..it's not a competition. It's just a screwed up coping mechanism that we've learned because it was easy when we needed a way to deal with the pain, fear, stress, loneliness, anger, sadness, etc. in our life. The fact that you don't hurt yourself badly is actually good, because cutting deeper or causing a worse injury is not something you want to do...this is so addictive, and it just gets worse. And the worse it gets the harder it is to stop. So the best thing to do, is to learn safe coping skills that help you deal with all of lifes crap and get rid of the self injury all together.

Your perfectly normal and your definitely good enough for any and everything...your young and you've got your whole big exciting life in front of you. Learning healthy, safe coping skills to handle that life is one of the best gifts you can give yourself.

Take care,

Kat

Thanks