There's pleasure in pain the same way people like to listen to sad music to make them feel good or people like spicy food. Think "hurts so good." Also when you're depressed you often hurt yourself to make the normalcy of the life you're dissatisfied with feel beautiful in relation to the ugliness you put yourself through
People don't continually do things unless they feel good, have some empathy and accept that some people's struggle you just can't relate to but it doesn't make their struggle any less true to them
People don't continually do things unless they feel good, have some empathy and accept that some people's struggle you just can't relate to but it doesn't make their struggle any less true to them
Exactly. these people just want attentionI knew girls that cut in junior high and they did it so they could tell people they did it.
That's anecdotal and that's a small sample size. Obviously those girls don't represent the millions of people who self harm and if you think they do then you're stereotypingI knew girls that cut in junior high and they did it so they could tell people they did it.