Is this considered "Self Harm"

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As a general rule I am very sensitive to loud noises and high pitched noises (less so now do to a previous extreme self harm event, but still none the less I'm sensitive to sound) I however normally can't stand loud noises. For some reason though, when I'm listening to music in my car or with headphones I can't help but to turn the volume up as loud as I can to the point that it actually hurts my ears. It's kind of like I enjoy the feelings in creates, I know it's destructive to my hearing but I just enjoy the over stimulation of my hearing non the less. Would this passing the point of stimming and be considered a significant self harm?

In school I used to sew designs into my skin with a needle and thread or embed graphite powder under the skin for no other reason that I enjoyed the pain and end product, and have sense repressed the desire to do so because I was chastised for it then, I still however have a desire to grab and needle and go crazy with some random design I see. I'm just trying to figure out if the music is something I need to work on repressing as well.

Am not a shrink, but I would consider both to be "self harming"- both in the literal sense (that you're harming yourself when you do it), and in the clinical sense (that its an example of the syndrome of "self harming").

Though I have to admit that that second thing is original. You have apparently invented new forms of tattooing.

In ancient times tribes in Eurasia and Polynesia put ink into their skins and invented tattoos. Ink doesnt work so well if the canvas is dark so the dark skinned races of Black Africa invented the use of ritual scars to do designs in relief.

But Ive never heard of peoples in any culture actually sewing fabric into their skin. Thats...wow!

I recommend: getting a job in construction hauling bricks, or digging ditches, so you will get dosed with muscle pain. Or start an excercise regimine like pumping iron. Get yourself some positive pain in your muscles to get the same emotional effect of self harming. And you might buff up as well.

I do the same thing and always have.

I don't think it counts as self harm but its not good for your hearing and you are making an unhealthy choice. However, its no worse than sitting in front of a computer screen all day; its equally as bad for your eyesight. Having said that I listen to angry heavy metal at top volume when I am thinking about the past so bad I feel like its all happening again. I zoned out to the lyrics and its better or like the episode never happened if I can smoke weed before listening to said music at max volume.

Well, you may be damaging your hearing organs in the process, but I wouldn't class it as self-harm the same as I would for cutting, for example.

I like to listen to some music really loud too. I like how it feels - blocks out thoughts, blocks out lots of other sensations, and I feel like I'm a conduit for the musical vibrations.