SelfHarm

I self harm. I fit all the catergories of self harm. While I am a person who self harms, I also do things like everyone else, like watching television and going out with my friends. Self harm is a continuum. We all do it. Diverse forms of harm help us to cope with daily stress, cultural pressures, opression and discrimination. Self harm is a survival strategy and frequently represents the least possible damage an individual can get away with. Self harm is about self worth, self preservation, lack of choices, coping with the uncopeable, speaking the unspeakable. Self harm gives a physical face to pain that might otherwise extinguish life. If I had not self harmed, I wouldnt be here today.