Self-Injury Support Group

Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.

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jellybeanmusic 03/29/2011

Personally, i was 8, i started burning myself with water when running baths and putting marbles in my socks which bruised my feet. I started cutting when i was 11, needed stitches by time i was 13. I'm now 16 and still struggling with self harm.

Also, where do/have you self harm(ed)?

deleted_user 03/29/2011

started at 15,now 37,have had good times,and bad when i go back to self harm,think it will always be a part of my life

deleted_user 03/29/2011

Started some form of self harm when I was ten or eleven. Started cutting a few years ago. It progressed. I am 19 now
I cut my wrists. Sometimes my ankles.

jellybeanmusic 03/29/2011

I usually cut on both thighs, hips, left arm (upper and lower) and my shoulders. I have also in the past cut my neck, face, feet, lower legs, hands and chest.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

I first started self harming when I was 9 or 10, I think, I can't remember. But I first started cutting when I was 12. I cut on both of my wrists and sometimes I cut on my arms when I run out of room.

scaredgirl08 03/29/2011

i started cutting when i was about 11 im turning 21 next month... started with small cuts on my arms then cut my legs ankles and have been cutting my thighs for a long while now... i also dont think ill ever be able to completely stop but im trying

deleted_user 03/29/2011

around 10? Used to cut arm and hip.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

i started at around 12 and still have issues with it and im 20. i usually cut on my arms or legs or hips.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

i strangled myself when i was 8, 10 and 16...i cut when i was 11, 12 14 and then stopped and then again at 18 and still doing it....i cut my arms and i've cut m wrists, ankles, knees and shioulders

deleted_user 03/29/2011

I never even thought about burning in the shower as self harm. I do it for the pain and I have since I was a teenager.

As for the picking and scratching, I started in my mid 20s. I'm 31 now.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

Oh - wrists, legs, and ankles.

DeathByDegrees 03/29/2011

Started at 13, now 24.
As blackpig69 said, sometimes I despair that it will always be a part of my life.

I have scars from my ankles to my thighs to my stomach to my chest. And there is not a smooth patch on my arms.
In my extreme lows I cut my neck, my face and my genitals.

Blurgh.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

I started last year, I was 14, andim 15. At first iusedto cut my arms but know i cut my waist or my ankles.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

i started having a food issue when i was about 10, started to cut when i was 13 ill be 20 in july.. i started with my ankles, then moved to my thighs and hips a litle on my stomach and a few on my right wrist
idk if ic an stop:(

deleted_user 03/29/2011

started at 17 and 23 now. left(mostly)arm and right arm, chest and leg once.

deleted_user 03/29/2011

I started when I was 14 years old and I'm 19 now and still struggling. I cut my arms, shoulders, legs, hips, and stomach.

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