Why do I always feel better after I self-harm?

You feel better after self-harm because it has become a way of coping for you. It is a temporary release from many negative emotions which for some reason seem to help many in the short term. It turns inner pain outside therefore giving it a focus which can be seen by the eye and making it easier to deal with. Physical pain is often easier to overcome than emotional pain and for this reason self-harm suddenly becomes less of a ghastly act and becomes something a little more understandable. Many find the physical pain comforting as it is temporarily distracting from any other forms of pain while others feel no pain whatsoever when they harm themselves but feel in control of what they are doing when they cannot control the actual feelings they are experiencing.

Truthfully, you feel better after you self-harm because you have all this stress and thoughts running through your head and body that when you cut it opens a spot to release that pressure

Self-harm makes you feel better because there is a release of endorphins and adrenaline into your body. This is a natural process that happens, designed to help us survive dangerous situations when we are injured.

Self harming releases a rush of endorphin's to your brain to help stop the pain and relieve it. Which is why self harming is addictive because your body is craving the rush of chemicals.

The suddon rush of physical pain blocks the emotional pain, because your brain is more worried about getting physically hurt than emotional issues.

Self harm is usually a way of creating a physical/tangible pain for an emotional pain we are feeling. It helps to be able to say "my arm hurts b/c i cut it" rather than "I am feeling angry." We often put our more abstract pains and feelings into something concrete and physical as a way to cope and assign a specific hurt to something we feel out of control with(our emotions). Self harm is an attempt to control and isolate our pain into something more understandable and available to our brain. It is a short term cover up though and not the answer to emotional distress.

I also self-harm, so what I'm about to say comes from personal experience. You feel pain inside, and self-harming makes you feel pain on the outside, and it blots out the emotional pain. However, this really isn't good to do. I'd suggest you find something you enjoy doing (I always turn to reading or drawing) and do it when you feel upset. It really helps. Please take care of yourself.

I think because after you punished yourself you feel you paid the price for something you did wrong and so you don't have to feel guilty about it any more.

A lot of self harmers feel better after they self harm, people self harm as to get relief and to numb the pain, so after you feel better cuz you've numbed the pain.

Probably because self harm makes you focus on different physical pain and therefore not the painful emotional hurt, or because of the belief that you deserve to be hurt, which is not true...