Get help from a professional..That's the best way. You can try to do other things when you feel you may hurt yourself to keep your mind off of whatever is causing you to do this...like running, working out, writing go outside, paint, ride a bike, bake a cake, go for a walk with your iPod, sit by the lake, draw what you see in the park. ..etc.
It's very difficult, you just need a lot of support and lots of things to take your mind off it.
If nothing seems to help see a psychiatrist.
Great support lines:
1-800-DONTCUT
1-800-273-TALK
1-800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)
It's important to reach out for help when you feel like self-harming. Talk to someone you trust, such as a friend, family member, or therapist, to express how you're feeling. Find healthy coping mechanisms like deep breathing, drawing, writing, or physical activity to distract yourself from the urge to self-harm. Practicing relaxation techniques and mindfulness can also help manage overwhelming emotions.
Yes. self harm is biting,hitting,scratching,cutting,burning can be absoutley anythinng. You are still harming yourself, drawing blood just means your doing it to a higher extent, but none the less still hurting yourself.
You can't 'motivate' someone to stop self harming. It's not that simple. he needs a professional. e.g child mental health professional.
No. Self respect is clearly respecting yourself, being kind to yourself, loving yourself and taking care of yourself. Self esteem is how you feel about yourself. For example: if you have low self esteem you don't really think you're pretty or attractive, you might not dress very nicely and you think you're ugly. You can have no self esteem but still have self respect by not harming yourself, etc...
Yes it is. Im not sure why but many people become addicted to self harm as if it were a drug or alchohal.
Yes, a doctor can contact your parents if you are self harming yourself in Northern Ireland.
It is when you are harming yourself deliberately. Cutting is a form of self harm and self mutilation. Cutting is when you take a sharp object like scissors and cut yourself. I am a cutter but I cut to make myself bleed. There are a wide range of forms of self harm.
Give them a stress ball or get them to puch a pillow make him/her pretend that its someone they really hate.
Because its hard to break a habit and self harming due to emotions is hard to stop until the bad emotion causing it is gone.
Any form of self-destructing act is not only harmful to the inflicter but it effects anyone who may care about them. Therefore, your parents may feel as though this self harming may be resulting from bad parenting or that they are concerned simply for your well-being and therefore it upsets them when you are causing physical and even mental harm to yourself as it is difficult for a parent to see this destructive act and may just want it to stop as soon as possible.
well, without telling ANYONE might be hard but in general, if you already know you have to stop, and want to stop, that is the first step. but try slowly weaning yourself off of it, using a rubber band, and generally distracting yourself when you feel the need. you never know, you might acquire a new skill, and save your life :)
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A vaccine can stop a person from catching a disease because when you have a vaccination, it injects dead cells of that disease and therefore you body has made antibodies to defend yourself if you do catch it. it does not stop you from catching it 100% because you could still catch it but there is little chance of it harming you or harming you as much. x