Adults who self injure. (?)

I am 27 and have done it since I was 16. I haven't done it since August...

I am 38 and si'd since 15. on/off.

im fighting it tonight though...

I am 48 and I rather "enjoy" my self harm.

I do not say that to freak anyone out. I mean - I found that my SH reduces my desire for suicide. Thus SH is a safety plan. SH is a good thing (assuming that you do not want me dead)......

Started at age 12 still struggling with it at age 43
Last time I self-harmed was 12-31-13

BTW I take Naltrexone because it takes away the endorphins from cutting. It doesn't always stop me from doing it but it has definitely cut down how much I do it because I can't do it to feel good anymore. That's gone because of the med. Now I self-harm when I am punishing myself, need to come back, etc

I get what you mean. I'm not as far gone as suicidal anymore... but my cutting is my weekly, bi-weekly, sometimes as long as monthly, coping strategy for compounded depression and anxiety. If i didn't have it, I'd go insane.

Well speaking from the land of insane - WELCOME to my world!

I have only cut a couple of times. T and I talked about it A LOT because of me working in the mental health field I feel I "should know better", Here is what she told me

Many people cut (adults just hide it better) for a variety of reason
~ for some it is because the are frustrated and need to let that frustration out and cutting allows that to happen
~they are in a lot of pain an need to let it out
~for those who don't cry because of emotional pain they cut because it is okay to cry from physical pain.

I started when I was 14 did it till I was 19. Then I stopped for a long time because my boyfriend (now husband) wouldn't allow it. I started again last year because of a mixed episode of bipolar. I've been able to resist since august - that time I hat to get thirteen stitches and hospital for ten days because of psychosis from mania. I had a bad depressed episode in October and I wanted to then but hubby said if I did he would try to have me committed and take our son away so I resisted.

In all the time I spent not doing it, I had urges every single day. I guess I just developed better impulse control and found a reason (hubby) to find better coping skills. Even now that I've been stable on the right med for five months, I still have the urge every day, multiple times a day...it's the closest I can relate to being a drug addict. I think I'll be 50 (26 now) and still have the urge...but as long as I'm not in a mixed episode I have the impulse control to resist.

23 here.

I'm 25 as well, and I started when I was 24.

I'm 25 and I've been thinking about doing it again. I haven't since I was like 20 though.

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41 here, been self harming on and off since around the age of 12.

i'm 25 and still do it.

been doing since 10 or 11 (on and off)

I started at five, biting my arms and hands. I remember being at infant school, sitting cross legged at morning assembly. I heard a girl behind me whisper to her friend next to her "Look at her, she's biting herself"
They were talking about me! I felt acutely embarrassed & silly. I didn't even realise I was doing it till I heard them talking.
I have almost stopped as an adult, but the urge does come over me occasionally, I pinch or bite I think about cutting but don't do it.

I blame my narcissistic mother for my behaviour.

I started at age 9 and am in my mid 20s now

I was in my mid 40s when I started....