Can self harm be considered a coping mechanism?

Self harm is definitely a coping mechanism! It's a way of handling painful or negative things that happen in our life, which makes it a coping mechanism. The trouble with self harm is that it's a negative coping mechanism, which means it doesn't make the situation any better. It adds more overall pain and difficulties to your situation. That's why, when you're recovering from self harm, it's so important to not just stop self harming but to also replace self harm with a positive coping mechanism that helps you in the situations that make you want to self harm.

Self-harm for most people is a coping mechanism. A way of dealing with the built up anger, any hate, memories and things out of their control. It's used for a lot of drastic reasons that mostly lead to a coping mechanism. Some people just enjoy pain sometimes.

Self harm is considered a negative coping mechanism, try replacing it with a much more positive way of coping.

Self harm is a coping mechanism, yes. However, it is not a good one. Reason being is that it tends to add a ton of problems to what you are going through, rather then making them dissapear. For example) hiding scars, feeling the pain, guilt from lying about the marks, and many more

Self-harm is should be considered a coping mechanism, most cases of self harm are not suicidal but an attempt to have control over the pain they may feel. However not all self harm is in the persons self control genetic factors can also play a part such as Lesch–Nyhan syndrome in cases such as this it becomes an uncontrollable body function. Self-harm is destructive but it doesn't change the fact that it is a method of coping with emotions distress.

No? Yes and no, dies it help people cope, yes, is it a good coping mechanism and is it reliable, no. Not at all.

Yes, but I don't think it's a healthy coping mechanism. I think there are healthier ways to cope, all you have to do is find them.

Well yes, but it isn't healthy. It's one of the worst coping mechanisms, but I see why people do it.

Yes it is considered a coping mechanism, but not one anyone should consider. It takes alot for someone to want to turn mental pain into physical pain but you have to remember that mental pain will go, but physical scars will not.

Yes self-harm is a coping mechanism although you should not use this yourself as a coping mechanism. There is a difference between mental and physical pain, mental pain can be curable most of the times, but scars aren't.