Why is it so difficult to stop self-harming?

Self-harming is to distract our mental pain, by inflicting ourselves with cuts. Basically, we prefer physical pain to mental pain. Physical pain is mostly temporary, while mental pain lives a scar on our live and it will affect our future decisions. The more we self-harm, the more difficult it is to stop because it feels "good" in a way that we are distracting ourselves from the pain we feel in out aching hearts. Emotions and feelings is what makes us human, and we shouldn't try to stop the flow of pain by slicing our wrists. There are certainly better solutions to that.

Because, once you have done it enough, it becomes an addiction, a part of you and it will feel like it is all you've ever known, so it is a difficult habit to break

Because it can get addicted to do that everyday and your use to it. It is safer if you use one of the other methods instead of cutting.

Because it can become an addiction, when you do it regularly. It can be sometimes the only thing that will distraction you from your emotions.

I think it's just, the feeling of just feeling "free" that does it everytime. In my opinion, when people self-harm, they don't tend to think about the consequences until later on.

We except the pain we think we deserve. It's the only thing that makes us realize that we aren't completely numb. We choose not to feel positive things, but we choose the negative over them.

Self harm is an addiction, just like drugs or alcohol. We can get so addicited to not only the endorphin rush but that feeling of relief after we engage in self harm