Does cutting for only a few months and stopping make me any less of a self-harmer?

With or without a label of self-harmer, the fact that it has been a method of coping in the past highlights that something has been amiss for that to happen. Unless unhealthy mechanisms are replaced with healthy ones, there is always the potential for that pattern to rise up again, in similar situations of triggered stress or trauma. I would be less concerned about the label, and more concerned about getting help to work through the behaviours that created the need for self-harming.

No, because it's not the Self Harm Olympics. You are not your self harm; it's just an action. Have you self harmed, yes or no? If yes, then yes that's all. You have self harmed. It doesn't make you any less than someone who cut for six years.

No you harmed yourself physically and that's what self harm is. But you stopped so you should be proud of yourself that you're recovering.

A self-harmer is someone who self injures themselves. You are still a self-harmer, though if you have stopped and don't relapse you wouldn't be anymore. It also may be a smaller issue causing the self injury and easier to stop it than say a 10 year addiction.

it is actually depend on how you see a self harmer is. if you're a self harmer and trying to stop, maybe considering you're still a self harmer or not might be less important, just forgive yourself, accept who you are in the past and accept who you are now. keep fighting :)

No, it doesnt. Cutting yourself is always going to hurt you and is super dammaging for you body and for you

no any form of self harm is serious and should be taken seriously. weather it is just a scratch or a cut that need stitches. all types are just a serious

Self harm does not define a person. If someone is engaging in self harm, whether it be for long or short periods of time, they are in need of guidance and support. But I don't believe the act itself defines the person.

Self harming behaviors are often used as a form of self regulation; they often make the person utilizing those behaviors or methods feel as if they are "back in control", whether it is aimed to feel something aside from emotional numbness or to reduce and regain control of feelings that are powerful and overwhelming. Using self harm as a means of self-regulation can be dangerous no matter how infrequently you engage in those behaviors. Stopping for a while may mean that you were able to cope in better ways for that period of time, even if you weren't actively doing so. It could also mean that you were temporarily exposed to fewer, or less potent stress-factors. If you are trying to stop, then there are a variety of resources designed to help people with this issue. Reaching out to a trusted friend, or using ice rather than a harmful implement have been found by many to be satisfactory as substitute behavior. in addition, using a journal is often a good way to acknowledge and work through feelings as they are being experienced.

No. Purposefully cutting, no matter for how long, makes you a self-harmer. If you have stopped, you can say you are a recovering self-harmer.