Self Harm Awareness Day March 1 2009

"To hurt yourself on the outside to kill the thing on the inside" Girl Interrupted

Various Names
Self Harm
Self Injury
Self Mutilation
Self Inflicted Violence

Methods
Cutting
Burning
Head Banging
Punching Your Self
Punching Walls
Starving Your Self
Chemical Burns
Wrist Banging
Picking - dermatillomania
Pulling or plucking hair - trichotillomania

Reasons
- Through Self Harm the person is controlling the amount of pain that they are experiencing
- The shock of pain allows the person to focus on something else for awhile
- The experience brings the person back to reality
- A form of self punishment
- To empty oneself on buried emotions and feelings - a cleansing so to speak

Dangers
- Infections
- Accidentally nicking an artery or vein and bleeding to death
- It becomes an addiction

Prior Posts On Self Injury
- The Worst Part Of Self Harm
- Helping Someone Who Self Harm
- A Letter To My Parents Regarding Self Harm
- Pain And Self Harm
- Other Things To Do Then Self Harm
- Self Harm Or How Far I Have Gone To Save My Life
- Hidden Marks
- Self Harm Awareness Day
- Self Harm Awareness Day Continued
- Self Harm - Way too many scars