Don't think it's self harm but I'm being told it might be.

[Andymoto377]

So my new baseball coach noticed my scars on my knuckles asked me where I got them and I told him in a fight. He asked me how many and I told him I didn't know maybe 40 sense I was 10. Well he reported it to our school counselor as self harm and told me someone who in that many fights and they aren’t professional fighters its self harm. Well the counselor said its peer pressure and that boys will be boys. I don’t know if that is really self harm its just a few fights and I’m not hurting myself... It started out cause I was small and bigger kids were picking on me idk why it continues. It is what it is I say.

[georgiamay]

It depends on why you're always getting into fights. If it's because you want to cause yourself physical pain, then yes, it's self harm. If it's for another reason, then I don't think it is self harm.

[FullyAlive]

It really doesn't sound like self harm, you have to intentionally want to cause yourself pain, inflict damage. And you'd most likely find yourself feeling better after getting hurt. And also if it was self harm you might be addicted?

So I guess you just have to ask yourself the question, Are you getting into fights to get hurt, so you can feel better? Or is it just to have a fight? If the first you may want to talk to someone, if the second then whilst getting into a lot of fights isn't necessarily a good thing it's not self harm either.

[Andymoto377]

It really doesn't sound like self harm, you have to intentionally want to cause yourself pain, inflict damage. And you'd most likely find yourself feeling better after getting hurt. And also if it was self harm you might be addicted?

So I guess you just have to ask yourself the question, Are you getting into fights to get hurt, so you can feel better? Or is it just to have a fight? If the first you may want to talk to someone, if the second then whilst getting into a lot of fights isn't necessarily a good thing it's not self harm either.

I don't really like getting into fights but I am emotinally numb when in them but I now that i have been thinking about it I do go and hangout with the people that get into fights when I am numb. now Im thinking that I do somewhat go out and look for the fights...

[FullyAlive]

Is it possible that it's for another reason? Is there something that could be causing you to feel like that? Family problems or something?
Maybe the reason you go hangout with those people is because you don't want to think? Just you know act, fight?
Of course this is all just me assuming things only you know why you do this.