Why do I want to self harm?

From my experience I have found that people self harm for many reasons personal to the person dealing with that issue. In some cases people self harm because they suffered a trauma and they want to control the pain that is inflicted on them. Other people self harm because they do not have healthy coping skills to deal with the stressors and triggers that they experience in their lives.

Because its a coping mechanism and an addiction that is really hard to break, it will take hard work and a lot of effort but you have to meet people half way

A lot of people self-harm to distract emotional pain by creating physical pain. It's something to take away the emotional pain that seems to be worse than self-harm.

Self-harm is an addicting form of coping, it acts as a release and provide relief, or as self-punishment. Everyone has their own reasons for self-harm, and it can become an addicting cycle, just like a drug.

I want(ed) to self harm because I felt the need to feel alive. To feel loved. To feel understood. I self harm(ed) because the scale between pain and strategies to cope with pain is tipping slightly too much to the "pain" side. Self-harming does not equal to suicide; I just want(ed) an anchor to this world to remind me and cope with the pain I was going through.

I'm addicted to it. The cutting makes me feel. Point blank, it just makes me feel something at a time when I feel nothing.

Because sometimes i can feel nothing, so i hurt myself to see if i still have feelings.I may hurt myself because i become so depressed and start to hate myself.

Because you might feel like whats going on is too much and need to let it out on yourself .dont hurt yourself over something that wont matter later on

Self harm is a bad coping method that is most commonly used by people with depression and symptoms of numbness, hollowness, and emptiness. The self harm is used when people want to feel something and know that they are alive, similar to when someone says "pinch me" in movies when they are joking about being in a dream. there are many alternaatives to dealing with these issues rather than self-mutilation and i strongly suggest you find something positive to do.

From a scientific standpoint, self harm is pleasing to many people because, like when being happy, the body releases chemicals called endorphins when it is hurt. The endorphins that are released when you harm yourself make you feel happy, causing you to want to harm more often, in order to feel like that again.