[Girl_Interrupted]

I self harm anyway, using methods I won't mention (I don't want to give people ideas, or remind them/trigger) but I was thinking about something just now.

When I'm cooking, if I accidently burn myself, I never go and put it under cold water. Sometimes I have, but most of the time I don't, because it's like, I don't know how to explain it, I want to keep that pain, that scar, just like I would if I did it deliberatley.

Would you class this as self harm, or just being stupid? :P

[SoupDragon]

I guess for me SI is about doing something to change how you feel. So if you get a change in feelings from not taking care of a burn appropriately, then I would consider it a form of SI.

Also I think scars or whatever, can represent how we feel inside, so a physical manifestation of emotional pain and again I think this can be seen as being connected to SI.

I wouldn't see it as being stupid.

[BrokenNBeautiful]

I have done this, too.

And I identify with trying to change a feeling this way.

And also keeping pain.

Billi

[cboxpalace]

Originally Posted by Girl_Interrupted

I self harm anyway, using methods I won't mention (I don't want to give people ideas, or remind them/trigger) but I was thinking about something just now.

When I'm cooking, if I accidently burn myself, I never go and put it under cold water. Sometimes I have, but most of the time I don't, because it's like, I don't know how to explain it, I want to keep that pain, that scar, just like I would if I did it deliberatley.

Would you class this as self harm, or just being stupid? :P

I'd consider it self harm. Here's why.. per your 1st paragraph you currently self harm. You intend to do it, and you enjoy the consequences of that action. The 2nd paragraph while it's an accident.. you're still enjoying the consequences rather than taking care of the wound.

So.. whether it's intentional or accident is really irrelevent, because your logic after the incident is the same.