Every single act of self-harm has a meaning.
1) Stressful environment
2) Bullying
3) Changes in parenting practices
4) Violence in the family
5) A strict, negative relationship between parents and their children
6) Mental Health Issues: general psychological distress, anxiety,
7) Abuse: physical, psychological, financial
8) Control or contain emotion
9) To punish the self
10) Cure a feeling of emptiness
11) Seeing blood in their bodies makes them feel real and that they are humans as well
12) Self-harm as a coping strategy
13) To draw the blood and escape the emotional burden of depression
14) To feel an overwhelming sense of satisfaction
15) Escaping the stress
16) Helps to calm down i.e., replacing intense emotional pain with a more intense sensation
17) For some, only way to avoid suicide
18) Control the affects/Coping mechanism of Low self-confidence, parental problems, family history of psychological problems, destructive behavior (cutting, hitting, starving)
19) After telling someone they have a mental illness
20) Getting treated with hatred, unfairly, unpleasant & disregarded
21) Way to stay alive and not die
22) The threats of self-harm or actual self-harm to achieve a certain goal
23) Going through a difficult relationship in life such as break up, miscommunication with loved ones or divorce, separation & death
24) Lost someone closed
25) Way to express a feeling
26) Poor lifestyle
27) Feeling of can’t talk to anyone due to religious background
28) Someone is threatening them or forcing them to do the things they do not agree or want to do it
29) Someone is doing something against their wish
30) Had a bad day and is not ready to talk. If anyone tries to help tends to engage in risk-taking activities.
31) Self-harming because they have seen someone doing it and thought this is the only choice they had
32) Feeling obsessed with weapons.
33) The guilt of hurting someone they love
34) Self-Harm stopped for a while. Then something unexpected happens, and they start hearing the voices telling them to hurt themselves or others.
35) Traumatic Event
36) Unexpectedly getting the responsibility of the immediate family members because the main provider has either parted ways or serving a sentence, died or disappeared
37) Feel like they should hurt themselves