Although self harming may be seen like a suicide attempt, unconscionably made, it’s not. Self harming is when someone id injuring their body enough to make tissue damage. It’s the most misunderstood form of self harming, because people often don’t understand the point or why are they expressing their emotions in a harmful way.
It has been researched that the majority of people that are self harming are having a history of sexual abuse or psychical abuse. They are used to be harmed that’s why they react with violence of their body. Talking about family history, these guys usually come from broken families, their parents spend a considerably time at work or they come from alcoholics families.
The most common methods of self harming are: cutting, burning, bone breaking, hair pulling or hitting themselves. This is the superficial type. The stereo type usually manifests by biting himself and trying to mutilate his face. The rarest type that is the major type is practically mutilating him. He is causing definitive mutilation on his body (castration, limb amputation may be one of the few examples).
Self harming people are usually people that tend to be perfectionists, that can’t accept their own mistakes. Because they seem to express their emotions verbally they hurt themselves. The same treatment is applied to those that have dislikes for their own body. For them it’s a way to punish them or a way to express their feelings and emotions or to get attention.
If you find yourself in one of the descriptions from above and want to get rid of this behavior I shall provide you with some advices may they not work for everybody, so if you trying some of the advices and they make you self harm more then stop doing that. Take a deep breath and use relaxation techniques. Whenever you feel that a crises comes call a friend or someone; get out of the house and take a walk outside, listen to music or take a hot bath, write in a journal your emotions, go to church and maybe you will find peace there, cook or clean the house (get yourself busy), you can try to do some yoga, sing, draw a picture suggesting what is hurting you or the person that has hurt you, avoid temptations, hold ice cubs in your hand (cold make you hurt but it doesn’t damage your body). Remember that crying is not a shame, whenever you feel hurt and strong emotions are going thru your mind just let yourself cry.