Why is self harm wrong as a coping technique?

Self harm does more harm than it does good, furthermore it provides long lasting evidence and reminders of your pain.

Because you can cause serious damage to a problem that can be solved. You could cut to deep or even get a blood poisoning. Its best to try and find a less harmful way of dealing with problems.

I think it depends on what the self harm is. As someone who has self harmed myself, I am not going to tell you it is "wrong" as such, however I would advise you to seek some help with it. Talking can be a great way to figure out why you need to self harm, and thinking about other ways to help you cope instead

Self harm is wrong as a coping technique because you are bringing harm to your body. I don't think being at that level of wanting to hurt yourself is healthy and you should find different ways to cope. There are plenty of more ways to cope, such as drawing, writing, playing an instrument, doing sport and overall using distractions around you to cope. If you are finding it hard to get away from self harm there are always ways to do it without necessarily using something that with hurt your body. Try drawing on the places where you were about to self harm. Or you could put ice on those places either. I hope these help!

Because it fails to achieve it's goal of helping to make things better. It might feel better in the moment, however, in the medium and long term, those kinds of behaviors have significant risk factors associated with them, which tend to increase stress factors, instead of reduce them.

Self harm can be addicting and it's not healthy because it can be potentially very dangerous

While self harm may provide a release at the time and diminish your pain, it’s not a long term solution. I know it can help and be really hard to stop, I’ve been there. My arms will never look the same again and I even affected a nerve from repeated deep cuts. It’s not worth it. It’s dangerous. I ended up in the hospital for stitches when I cut too deep. Small cuts may work at first but it escalates as it becomes no longer enougg to June the pain. It’s dangerous, they can get infected, it’s hard to hide and people can be judgmental. It’ll be a reminder the rest of your life. Replacing it with healthy coping mechanisms is really difficult, I know. But it’s worth it. I’ve replaced it with healthy things like mindfulness, knitting, music, exercise for the release of endorphins that create happy chemicals in the brain, drawing...you can find ways that work that don’t involve self harm. It’s difficult but it’s more than worth it. I’m not recovered, but I haven’t self harmed in months and I’m grateful and happy to have stopped. I plan to stay strong and I believe you can too!

Self harm is not wrong, it is a means to feeling something when you think that there is no other way. Recognising the need for feeling something gives a start line to finding other ways to start feeling something. There are other better ways of coping with depression which don't involve hurting yourself. Instead of hurt and pain, it's much better to feel the joy and happiness. So, finding activities that create these feelings is a priority. It can be hard to find activities like that, which can be more demotivating. But, again, all we want is to feel and there are better ways to start feeling something, it's just the matter of trying things out until you find that activity which you love and which makes you happy and fulfilled.