Is self-harming any more prevalent in the AS community?

Post Reply New Topic

Sorry for so many questions tonight everyone, it's been a very rough week and I am trying very hard to understand so many things.

I am just wondering if there is a greater number of people with depression or other issues, would self-harming come into the picture as well...it seems to be a method used to take control of pain, just wondering the prevalence.

I completely understand that many may not want to share something so personal, but for those who feel they can...I truly would be appreciative.

I used to cut myself in my teens, and sparsely in the last few years. I used it to deal with emotional anguish, I guess... to keep my feelings from escalating. I was an emotional juggernaut. I'm not sure if it was the physical pain or the sight of blood that was soothing, because even just getting my blood drawn for lab tests is strangely hypnotizing.

Scab picker.... I know... it is pretty gross..... I don't really know why I do it, either. I just have "always done it"..... I search my body for something to pick at.

I also have depression and anxiety issues that began to surface during my young adult years (19yrs old give or take a year).

Yes, I have. I have never cut myself, but I have hit myself lots of times in rage and/or frustration.

I chew my fingernails, and I head bang. Sometimes I just do it because it feels good.

I regularly consider seriously harming myself, but my tendency to second-guess myself constantly is what stops me from going through with it.
I punch walls, bang my head against things, kick chairs, etc. fairly often when I'm feeling frustrated. Sometimes it feels genuinely good, mostly it just really hurts. heh

I did the same thing for much of my life, from childhood on into adulthood, but for some reason, haven't done it much lately. I used to hit myself so much I was covered in bruises on my arms and legs, and sometimes my forehead. I also used to claw at myself.

I had lots of rage and frustration too.

i play the blues, it helps.. & masturbation is the only "abuse" i engage in

I'm a natural worrier. I'm constantly brooding over my future. I spend the majority of my life alone and I have no friends...some days all I do is sit and think. I get very, very, very stressed out and when it all gets too much I punch myself. I feel better afterwards. I don't know if this has any relevance to AS though, I've been this way for a very long time and I actually suspect I may have biastophilia so I really don't know.

(Sorry if that's TMI everyone...I've never told anyone about this and I don't know how much I should say...?)

mY advice: STOP it dosent do you any favours. I got depression for a shor while when I was about 9, that was weird... I sometimes have a maddeing urge to strange mysefly etc. But dont, as it really dosent do anything posotive, so I just take it out upon my poor poor bed.... punch bag..... When someones actually anoying me my anger dies down really quickly, and I seem to react very little to peoples anoyance. But then, hours later I get abouloutly furiouse with them and think up diabolical punishments....

yes im a hugeee self injuror, iheadbanging, punching faces body, slamming whole body against ground, you name it, but im not depressed never ever was, for some odd reason i never ever experienced depression or anxiety really, but do it just out sensory, anger, frustration, communication though. try to see if you can get a punching bag to help ease your frustration or pain... or see about writing down your frustrations or anger in a journal or diary... what i do when im verrry angry ill sometimes go lay under my weighted blankets and rock and bang against my pillow, with loud music, it def helps. either way hope u find a way to help urself!

Uuh.. well I think I slapped myself for doing something wrong a few times when I was a kid, but when a teacher told me about cutting, I thought she was lying. It was the most insane idea I'd ever heard. I still don't understand it at all. I mean, I won't hold it against anyone, but it's just a really wild concept to me.

Thanks guys.

I know that talking about wanting to ever hurt yourself is hard...but I really do appreciate the honesty, it makes me feel better knowing that it isn't as unheard of as I sometimes want to think it is..

My entire left shoulder is scar tissue practically from cutting myself. My left forearm is covered in burn marks where I held a cigarette lighter to it in different places for precisely eight seconds each time. My legs are covered in paintball marks where I shot myself repeatedly from close range. There's a stab mark from like 1998 in my right shin where I stabbed myself 'by accident' or at least that's what I told my mom.

Yeah out of frustration because I just lose my temper and can't contain myself. Sometimes if I'm trying to get something right and keep failing I get so angry I tear bits of skin off my hands with my canine teeth. Not healthy, I know...

Never cut or burned, but, yes.
Scab pick, pimple pop. Scratch self (hard enough to leave marks). Bite self. Hit self; punch self. Pull hair (sometimes pull a little out). Punch self in face, slap self. Chew on self. Head bang. Run into walls. Ect.

Ditto, mostly that for me; but depression comes into mine as well. So all of those, and depression for me.