He's seen my arms when I was actively self-harming. He asked to see a few times and I rolled my sleeves up and showed him. Nevertheless, I still wear long sleeves to sessions. He hasn't asked to see my arms in about a year, mostly because my SH is not too bad. Apart from one scar that stands out, I don't have any other ones that are too visible, unless I hold my phone torch at a certain angle.

I totally understand the feeling of thinking T would consider you pathetic because your SH "isn't actually that bad." Sometimes I talk about it when it's not an active problem and worry that if he were to see my arms, he would think I'm making too much of a fuss, or worse, that I'm lying about it. So it's become a sort of habit to cover my arms up, even in the dead of summer. Probably not very healthy. If I go outside wearing a T-shirt when the SH isn't much of a problem, I worry that I'll run into him and he'll think I'm annoying/pathetic/weird for talking about SH in sessions. He probably saw other clients whose SH was a lot worse than mine. I almost feel like a fraud for not doing it as bad.