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If I don't keep my nails short, I bury them on my back...
(Beware, I hope this confession doesn't gross you too much, Dear Reader).
I started hurting myself since I was 11. Yes, I still do. Whenever I feel frustrated/stressed/depressed/obsessed I start doing it. It all started with one tiny pimple, but I kept doing it even on the healthy parts of the skin. At the beginning it was a conscious act, but now I don't even notice when I'm doing it until I taste blood (I developed the habit of eating the little pieces of flesh, I must admit there is some pleasure for me in that too).
I'm trying to stop and, yay, it's been working... slowly but surely. I wonder if anyone has a similar issue. I've always felt somewhat isolated in this matter.
Thanks for reading.
Tell your parents, get them to help you.
Thank you but I think I'm a little old for that now (25), and, they being religious, they tend to judge before actually helping. I've had to deal alone with many things since my childhood.
I be came addicted to self harm when I was 11 as well. I think about cutting hundreds of times a day, but nowadays I just somewhat abuse legitimately prescribed meds
I became alcoholic a couple of years back, recently I managed to stop drinking (I've been sober for a year now), incredibly it's been much harder to stop tearing my skin, I thought alcohol would be a stronger enemy... for what I've seen in others. I've been taking relaxing pills (the homeopathic kind), that seems to be helping. Valium and Prozac would just turn me into a zombie to return the pain even harder after the effects, I ended up hating prescribed meds... hope they don't hurt you as well.