burninghill
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- Dec 2, 2025
- 67
It endlessly frustrates me that cutting is often seen as the only valid form of self-harm (it frustrates me even more the competitive nature of depth when it comes to online spaces about SH and the way people who cut shallowly are taken less seriously, but that's another discussion).
I used to cut but once I'd reached the depth I was 'working towards', I got bored and just started to take things to make myself feel unwell, not to the point of vomiting, just... poorly and nauseous. I made myself nic sick every day for as long as I could when I started smoking and that escalated into burning myself with the cigarette butts. I'd also make myself sick with alcohol.
I'm sure anyone, after even a brief conversation, would consider these to obviously be self-harm, it just gets to me that so many of these methods are under-discussed. Particularly forms that don't leave physical marks.
Narrowing down self-harm in this way in discussions can also lead to risks as it relates to the potential of people not realising that they're self-harming!
I used to cut but once I'd reached the depth I was 'working towards', I got bored and just started to take things to make myself feel unwell, not to the point of vomiting, just... poorly and nauseous. I made myself nic sick every day for as long as I could when I started smoking and that escalated into burning myself with the cigarette butts. I'd also make myself sick with alcohol.
I'm sure anyone, after even a brief conversation, would consider these to obviously be self-harm, it just gets to me that so many of these methods are under-discussed. Particularly forms that don't leave physical marks.
Narrowing down self-harm in this way in discussions can also lead to risks as it relates to the potential of people not realising that they're self-harming!
