[venusss]

I hardly ever cut... I always get away "i cut myself when I was shaving my legs* excuse when someone notices actually...

but I do different things... I sleep deprive myself... I will pull a 38 hour or more "day" without sleeping. I love the feeling of being sleep deprived actually... I feel some underlaying strengh in it... I don't feel depressed anymore in the moments when the sun rises after a night of not sleeping... I go to sleep the next evening than... I even do my daily tasks...

or I deprive myself of food... I don't think I have an eating disorder (I mean, I love to eat and I have no idea what carbs and calories are... I love good food, I love the Czech/German cuisine... enough said). I just sometimes tell myself I will not eat, for whatever stupid reason (often it's "I don't want to go to get food"... but I will often not eat even if I have food in the fridge, "just because").

[puzzclar]

ya, that sounds like a form of self-harm. because of the effects that it could do to your organs. Either way, it's still not a good thing to do. Take it from someone who has SI'ed a different way then most, it's not good no matter what you do. But try and stay healthy, (you know food helps the immune system, as well as sleep) If you want to be healthy you'll stop.... which takes as much strenght as staying up all night. (and for some my signature helps)

[Tatyana2009]

Hey, I dont self harm in the usual sense of the word. But I do things similar to yours - deprive myself of sleep or not eat just because (and i love food)... I also started wondering if being with my abusive bf for some time is a form of self harming....

[dfh932]

I never post here either but totally do that too. Sleep deprivation used to be one way for me to purge too but i wont go into the details. But I totally think sleep depriving yourself and making yourself be hungry is self harm. In a broader sense, I also think it's got to do with dissociating from your body. Like, you're not your body--you can do whatever you want to it--make it stay up, keep it from eating when it's hungry. It's a punishment thing, at least for me.

[invisiblegirl]

I do some of the same things, though I also scratch myself with my nails. Part of the reason I like sleep deprivation is the adrenaline rush I get the next day. After staying up all night I run on adrenaline the whole next day and I love the feeling of it. And I guess I have a bit of a self-esteem problem, though you could call my self-degradation a form of emotional self-harm, but that's a whole other story...