When I'm angry, why do I always feel the need to hurt myself?

People sometimes need to distract themselves, alter the focus of their attention, or regain control over their minds when experiencing pressing, unavoidable and overwhelming feelings or thoughts

When I feel like self-harming, it's always because I need to express the built up negative emotions I have. I need an outlet for the negativity harboring inside me, so I thought of self-harming as a way to let it out. When your anger builds up, you may feel the urge to hurt yourself and relieve yourself of the anger you're feeling. Punching a pillow, stomping on the ground with large shoes, or taking up exercises can give you the feeling of letting out your anger without hurting yourself or anyone else.

It is something we usually do when we feel sad, it is easier to handle physical pain than the emotional pain. But we should never do it, and we should speak up whenever we feel that way.

Self harm is a way to cope to overwhelming emotions. It releases endorphins that make you feel better. I personally have battled with self injury, and it's not easy. I relapse here and then but it is possible.

Por que cuando te enojas, tal vez pienses que le haces daño a los demás y entonces tu necesitas hacerte daño

This could be because you may think that the problem is yourself and you caused the pain and anger. This can stem from anxiety or guilt.

Hurting oneselves is a cope mechanism to stop whatever is hurting you on an emotional level. For one moment you don't feel all the build up of sadness, loneliness, bad thoughts, and so on. You just feel the pain. But it doesn't even hurt. It's a way of dealing with emotions. It's distracts you from your feelings. But thats the problem. It's just a big lie you tell yourself because truth is hurting yourself doesn't make the problems go away. It just makes them worse.

try to get rid of these bad thoughts you have my relaxing, either take a long bath, go in a room with other people or just listen to music or go on social media, remember the person you care about most and think about what they would say if they found out

angry is an emotion and when we are angry with someone or about something we are actually upset or is disappointed on someone or over something. it can be anything and yes we feel sad and depressed and full of anger can cause you harm by being stressed and a lot of things to consider so we always need to be sure how to relax ourselves and how we can do that by doing things in which we enjoy but please include movements whether its a dance or something else its up to you.

In my opinion, when I felt that way before, it's just a way that feels like it gets the anger out. I don't know if it's the same for everyone, but it made me feel better.