While self-harm can feel like an overwhelming and humiliating shame to those experiencing it, many of those who over-come it describe themselves as feeling much more at ease about it after they have beaten it. This allows them to move on a lot more easily. Read more →
While most people who beat self-harm remain aware of its potential to influence them, that addiction to the brain’s response to it does lessen almost completely over a long enough period of time. Read more →
Many people who self-harm describe the actual act as feeling like a secret ritual that they must hide from the world. This suggests that the nature of at least some of the supposed benefits of self-harm, as well as some of its negative effects, may be disconnected from the actual physical act. Read more →
Evidence suggests that self-harm causes an adaption in people who get used to it, in that they slowly find their ability to cope in general diminished. The extent to which this happens in some cases means that allowing the fall-back of minor forms of discomfort (as long as it is proven to be safe) may be more affective for some… Read more →
Being common does not mean self-harm is an effective way of dealing with emotions. Read more →
Although there is a complicated list of reasons, feelings, and thoughts which may lead to self-harm, as with most complex human behavioural mechanisms, all of those feelings and thoughts do not need to be present, and even those which are may not all play part in any particular self-harm event. Read more →
Although the figures between different reports seem to vary wildly, some evidence suggest that up to fifty percent of self-harmers who begin at the age of fourteen will continue into their twenties. Read more →
Although a great many self-harming individual have great difficulty figuring out what makes them self-harm a large amount of those who manage to overcome it successfully have an awareness and appreciation of what it was that finally helped them to beat the urge. Read more →
As with all psychological issues there are multiple theories about why suicide seems more common among adults who self-harm than those who don’t. The two prominent ones are that self-harm is raises its own major issues and the second is that the same mind-frame that makes self-harm seem like a viable option can also cause suicide to seem like one.… Read more →
There appears to be a tendency among self-harmers towards perfectionism. Although there appears to be a connection between low self-esteem and both of these, it seems to be a risk factor due to the stress it causes as much as anything. Read more →
