Anyone else?

I have taken pictures on my phone of when I cut and when I'm bleeding. I haven't been cutting as often and lately that I usually do which is good I suppose. Whenever I'm feeling anxious, trapped, depressed, or anything I look at pictures of my cutting on my phone. I don't know what it is about it that helps. It might feel like it helps a little but not completely. Maybe it might be just seeing the blood and myself bleeding in the picture? I don't know...

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Yes, I do this as well. Idk why I do it, to me it feels like when it's healed and the scars are faint it's a record of how much I was hurting

so maybe it's just a way of validating the pain you're in? Like you feel a little bit better cause the pics are a reminder of the fact that what you feel is real and valid?

My self injury is pulling out my hair, which causes sores that I pick. It is called Tricatilmania. Probably spelled it wrong. It only happens when I am seriously upset, worried or feeling suicidal. I don't even realize that I am doing it, until someone tells me to stop or I see blood on my fingers. On of the joys of being bipolar and high anxiety.

Yeah. I tend to take pictures of my wounds in hopes that I can use that instead to try to resist the urge.

I remember reading something about people who self harmed in ordered to see blood. Most said it made them feel better.

I guess I feel like there's seriously something wrong with me in the head since I take pictures of my self harm and just look/stare at them frequently. It makes me really miss doing it too when I haven't done it recently.

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Yea that's a big part of self harming and cutting for me. The aftermath and feelings afterward and just watching my blood flow is like euphoria for me


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Although I was never big on taking pictures of my self harm, I did have a tendency to watch the blood flow in a mirror. It's somehow cathartic to see.. to have that physical manifestation of the negative emotions draining away. If that makes sense? I sometimes look at pictures of others self harm as a means of sating my own urges. It doesn't always work.. but sometimes it helps. I wonder if seeing it after having done it for so long can trigger the same endorphin rush/ euphoria as actually causing physical harm?