Safe self-harm?

[Felodese]

This post may trigger/anger some, so if you're sensitive to this topic, maybe skip this post.

Anyways, a question for the people who self-harm: do you have any "safe" ways of doing it?
And by "safe" I mean something that doesn't cause open wounds, scars or permanent damage.

My anxiety is making want to physically hurt myself. I just want to have some of the pain on the outside rather than inside. But I don't really like the idea of cutting myself - I already have plenty of scars, so I don't need any more.

 

[dolemitedrums]

The purple nurple always kind of hurt when someone did it on the playground but I don't recall any permanent damage ever coming from it.

 

[nymb]

scratching, i scratch my hands and wrists when i get too stressed. it cause little wounds that burns but you can tolerate and hide that easily

 

[Felodese]

Thanks for your answers
Does anyone have any other suggestions?

 

[UKscotty]

Elastic bands are a good method.

 

[Scenegirlshooter]

Pulling hair I think would work

 

[Lookingtoflyfree]

I write on myself with non-permanent marker and just wash off whatever I've written

 

[plan c]

A bit far-fetched though, but I think it has some connection to self-harm.

I once blew up a giant structure that I myself had spent two months constructing on a survival server of Minecraft. Didn't have backup of course.

I was surprisingly calm and feeling relieved after that. Maybe it somehow conveyed the message that things I struggle about may not mean too much to me in the end. I could feel a portion of my anxiety or restlessness or whatever went of with that.

 

[cait_sith]

I punch myself on the head. I don't recommend

 

[CantDoIt]

Holding ice? I hit myself in the head sometimes with my hand or with objects.