Why do I always feel better after I self-harm?
comfortingWillow24
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Oct 27, 2015
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Cutting releases endorphins, a chemical that dulls the pain sensors in your brain. Cutting becomes similar to a drug addiction in the sense that the feeling that accompanies it is almost a drug
esistinmir
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Sep 7, 2015
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Because you believe that you have something wrong. Therefore, by hurting yourself, you think you are doing harm to the person who is hurting you. Of course that this isn't true and that self harming isn't the appropriate response! You are an amazing person, remember that ;)
ZeMightyGiant
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Jun 17, 2015
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Because you have switch your pain you felt inside, outside of you by doing self harming to yourself. You wont feel the usual pain you feel on an everyday basis by doing so
Anonymous
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Jan 11, 2016
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Because it's a physical release of the pain that's inside. It overrides your mental pain with physical pain. It also releases "feel good" chemicals like Endorphins..
ChemicalAshes
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Jul 6, 2015
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People tend to feel better because most of the mental and emotional pain is now gone, since they took it out on their bodies. Most emotional pain is much stronger than physical, giving them a more satisfied result.
TodayisYourDay
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May 17, 2016
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Self harm can make you feel like you are in control, however it is a very dangerous feeling. I find it to be helpful to find a task to do rather than self harm. Origami, doodling, knitting, and coloring are all hands based movements that have helped me refrain from self harm.
NoRosesWithoutThorns
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Oct 11, 2016
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Science side says endorphines, human side says because you've let out the feelings you had trapped inside you
Teddy522
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Jun 12, 2017
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Self-harm can feel like a way of coping with difficult emotion, it can also give an instant release from emotional distress by giving something else to focus on. Whatever your reason for self-harming, you don`t have to go through it alone and you deserve to love yourself and find a healthier way of coping! Please check out the self-harm self-help guide, you may find some useful information in there!
Dailydaydreama
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Jun 23, 2015
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Self harm can be a way of avoiding the emotional pain that's inside us and it can also be easier to connect and except the physical pain as a release ! Finding ways to reduce the risk of self harm is a step towards a safer place 😊
Angellene15
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Oct 28, 2015
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It's a form of distraction, it makes you think of the physical pain you're experiencing and not your mental or emotional pain
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