What can make a person to want to hurt themself and keep hurting themself?
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What can make a person to want to hurt themself and keep hurting themself?
People self harm for different reasons, it depends on the person. It really can be very different for everyone. For some people, self-harm is linked to specific experiences and is a way of dealing with something that’s either happening at the moment or which happened in the past. Sometimes you might not know why you hurt yourself. If you don’t understand the reasons for your self-harm, you are not alone and you can still get help.
Some people who self-injure do so because they seek to punish themselves. Often when this occurs people who harm themselves with intent to self-punish are also people who have survived substantial abuse. Another reason I know that people self harm is for the purpose of digressing from a bigger issue. For example; say someone is contemplating suicide, they can start cutting themself to feel pain temporarily, by cutting themself, they’re able to take their mind off the suicidal thoughts for some moments.