What age did you start/quit?

[jesusogpaign]

What age were you when you started self-harming? And if you've since quit, at what age did you? Also, if you've had any relapses.

Also, if you've ever attempted suicide, what ages was that at?

[Captain Canada]

I started around 8... I didnt cut back then, it was more of a mental self harm than a physical self harm. I started to physically harm myself around 10-11. I quit about three months ago but in November I relapsed. I've been trying to stop again, I recently threw my blades out. I have attempted suicide but I never followed through, I think I was 9, right before I started cutting.

[Etcetera]

I began cutting in 7th grade (I'm in 12th now) and starving myself in 10th.

[ksdnfkfr]

I started right after I turned 12 and it went on for nearly a year.
I finally started getting counseling and I am about 130 days
free of it (I turned 13 in August). I have come close to relapsing
a few times but managed to overcome it thanks to the counseling.

[scarlet_wrists]

I started when I was six years old...When my parents got divorced and my father started to abuse my mom and I..I saw a teenage actor do it on tv and that's how it all began..I am now 2 months clean

[XENON]

Started at 14, now I'm 15, been clean for 5 weeks and hoping it's my ticket out

[Hallie]

I started pulling out my hair when I was 11, then when I was 12 I started banging my head against walls and scratching and biting myself. I didn't start cutting until I was 14 and I kept it hidden for a long time. Recently I've started to take control and I'm trying to stop, but my other self-harming behaviors are coming back now because I'm not cutting. I'm starting to pull out my hair again, and I'm banging my head into walls more often. I'm beginning to wonder if stopping cutting myself is going to be worth pulling my hair out and banging my head into walls.

As far as suicide goes, I have never attempted it, though I thought about it ever since elementary school, possibly as early as second or third grade. I was having recurrent overwhelming thoughts of suicide in middle school and after that and held a knife to my throat multiple times with the intent of killing myself, but I was always ended up backing out at the last moment. I suppose there's always been a part of me that wants to live.

[King_of_Hearts]

Started cutting at 13... stopped at 13...

[AlexOnToast]

I started before Xmas, and I'm done now hopefully

[connorftw]

started and stopped when i was 10 and again last week. im hoping it wont ever happen again

[xXl0sth0peXx]

I started just after my 15th birthday. At 18, I hope this will be the end but I'm not sure.

[Fanta_Lover44]

I started when I was 14, I try my hardest not to, sometimes it works... Sometimes it doesn't... I don't think its ever going to go away.

[Harley Quinn]

I started when I was 13 but it didn't get to the point of reliance until I was 14. I've stopped here and there, but somehow go back to it. I'm hoping though, this year will be the year I do actually stop, so 18/19.

[Ocelot]

i've been doing it on and off since i was early 14, I only end up doing it every couple of weeks, but it's been getting worse. I really need to stop asap, or things are going to get pretty bad pretty soon. never attempted suicide though

[Desuetude]

I started when I was 13, I'm 16 now and at the moment I'm in a period where I've stopped but usually I end up relapsing and go through stages where I SH regularly. I don't -usually- actively choose to stop, it just kind of happens.

[uniquesnowflake]

I started hurting myself when I was eleven. I was scratching myself and pulling out my hair. When I was thirteen I started to burn and cut. I never tried to quit.

[Tarannosaurus]

Started physical self harm when I was eight, attempted suicide when I was fourteen and my last relapse was in September, but I've been clean for over three months.

[nearwales]

i was scratching and pulling hair out amd punching walls from 16 and cutting from 17, i havenever truly stopped just scaled down but it is bad mroe than it is good. never considered suicide, when I SH i has nothing to do with wanting to die just wanting to get brief relief

[thatgothgirluknow]

I started with scratching and digging my nails in my skin cut a couple times early 13 now 14 still do the old stuff and nowcut regularly tried to stop a couple times but I've only ever made it 5 days

[firewurk]

I started about two years ago, when I was around 11 or so.
Mentally and physically harming myself.
Haven't quit yet, and I don't really have any motivation to quit.

My last suicide attempt, was around 4 months ago.
Tried to overdose on sleeping pills.
Wasn't fun.

[Fiction]

I started when I was 14. I was clean for almost a year until a few months ago so I pretty much stopped aged 17, but I still get urges and who knows if i'll do it again or not.

[theoscorn]

I started at 9/10, and had a five month no cut period at 11. I've been off and on since then. Currently am.
I first tried at 7, when Bipolar onset. Next tried when 9, then 10, then 11.

[Cygnus]

Started at 10, quit at 13.

[ghostfilm]

Started cutting when I was 15 also stopped when I was 15. Just recently relapsed and really trying to get myself into a better thought/mind process to stop myself.

[Unbroken]

Started aged 13, suicide attempt at 14, stopped at 17

[Seemyheart]

I was 14 when I started, I was stopped for a couple months, then I had a relapse, I'm working on stopping for good:)

[HideInPlainSight]

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[geetry]

I started when I was 13, three suicide attempts, but I'm in a happier time now, so I haven't cut since Novemberish.

[sie.unsafe]

i started when i was 12 right after my grandma died but before that i didnt know what i was doing id scratch my self and stuff but never like now. now im 16 and i wanna stop so i dont hurt my family but its hard for me

[James Dean]

Do not bump old threads please. :locked: