Self Harm

I have only just found this section despite being on Dooyoo a while now. There have been some moving and honest reviews. It is a very interesting topic to look at and one which will divide people and maybe inspire people too. Being male I never really talked about how I felt when i was younger and this eventually became an excellent defence mechanism, if not a particularly healthy one. I had what I consider to be a normal upbringing with both parents present which included nice family holidays. I was in school for the whole time in mainstream education with a spell at a private school also. In my teens I drifted in and out of profound depression ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to weigh in on this discussion because I consider myself 'recovered' and wanted to let people know that it is possible. I guess I will tell you a bit of my story and then how I managed to stop. So i began self harming when I was around 14 due to bullying and deaths in the family. When I reached 15/16 is when I first sought help, I saw a school counsellor which I'm sad to say did little to help. The self harming continued on and off until I reached 17, when it came back with a vengence. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and I became incredibly depressed and suicidal. I ended up being admitted to a young peoples inpatient ward, which I feel was ...  Read the complete review

Self harm has a variety of definitions wikpedia defines it asis deliberate infliction of tissue damage or alteration to oneself without suicidal intent . I have been a self harmer since I was nine years old and only stopped when I was pregnant so have twenty six years experience of self harm. This is my personal experience. I do remember the first time I self harmed. I was nine years old and stood in the Kitchen drying the dishes when I had a carving knife and felt an urge to carve my arm open it felt the most natural thing in the world and it did give me a great feeling of calm. It felt a very private thing more than a secret. I self harmed ...  Read the complete review

As a self harmer of around 7 years, this is a very important subject to me. Now, soon to be 18, it worries me that I started self harming so young, at just 11 years old. I didn't really know what I was getting myself into. The strangest thing is that, I don't know how it began. I don't recall waking up one morning thinking that today I was going to cut myself... It almost seems like there was no thought process behind it, it just happened. People writing about this sometimes make me angry, because many people try and judge it, when they can't. In a way, it's just like smoking or drinking too much - you're damaging your body. The fact is, the damage is just ...  Read the complete review