Self harm - Education

[Project Delta]

I am just wondering, do you think being a self harmer is having any influence on your grades/learning/school work?

Yes/No + Reason please :)

[MysticalBurrito]

Yes, because it makes me tired causing me to fall asleep when I'm supposed to be studying which causes last minute studying = fail.

[Harley Quinn]

To me no it doesn't because i get up and go although in some classes its harder than others but that's life. If the day at school has been mega hard then i get distracted from work, it depends on the day im having really.

[BlackenedSilver]

Not really. Sometimes I just think "Whats the point" But tbh thats just depression. It can help me focus on things, I'm alot more focused on school work when I cut because I want to forget it.

[Waiting]

self harm never affected my education, my mental health did.

[Triceratops]

Honestly, it didn't.
Each year my performance at school gradually improves.
I often use school work as a distraction from self-harming.
Sure, I had days in school whereas I thought "Fuck it. What's the point." and lost all concentration.
Self-harming hasn't particularly affected my grades in a negative way.

[Becky]

Yeah I don't know why I just feel theres more important things than this and don't try :S

[PoisonedRazorBlades]

Nope. Being in class actually helps me. It keeps my mind of it most days. I mean sure some days it doesn't help but it does a lot of the time.

[theOperaGhost]

I would say that it absolutely does, but I have no experience so I don't know. IMO if you're self-harming, you have an insane amount of stress...more than you would if you were just depressed and not self-harming.

Also, you're just going to feel shittier about everything if you're self-harming. The pain, both physical and emotion will set in after cutting and you're just not going to give a fuck about school or anything.

I say it absolutely does NOT have any positive effect whatsoever. I'm not sure if there is a negative effect on school, but I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't effect it badly.

[Project Delta]

I agree with what Jared has said. But yeah this is all quite confusing , i guess its different for each person

[Amyxoxo]

It has never really directally effectaly my grades, i went through a rough patch at the end of the last school year and un-luckey for me it was when i done the first of my GCSE's so it may have but i havent got the results yet :S.

[DarkWingedAngel]

yes it does.
because usually i would do it in the morning
and all i would be focused on is what i did in the morning
not school

[ShatteredWings]

honestly yes....
i've i've cut the night/morning before school, i will be distracted all day. the stress gets too much.
So much shit happend in school last year. i'm planning on having a repeat

[Discomposure]

Yes, it has with me. I'm getting there though... my school is quite supportive so i've had extra help. I couldn't concerntrate, I was always thinking about what was going on then about cutting, it's daft I know. Also like others said there was quite a few days where I just thought fuck it...

[MadManWithaBox]

no. Ive always the same with schoolwork, and SH didn't change my attitude one bit. I've always been a lazy arse

[dstnyisurs]

It is sometimes because I am pretty sure I'm bipolar, so the mood swings are killer on my classwork and they affect the performance I give the teachers in class. But in relation to self harm - it does maim me in class sometimes because I see irony and I see myself and my personal struggles in the supposedly "unrealistic banter" of the classroom, and I become enraged, or depressed, or I want to cut or something of the sort. It affects my concentration greatly as my emotions become stronger because it already takes a lot of concentration for me to control my emotions (at least to outside eyes) entirly like I do. So my concentration suffers when my mind gets carried away in thought more then usual to the point where it's like a fog between my eyes and the front of the room because of all I'm thinking and trying desperatly to control.
-sigh- Life. Sucks.

[NightFighter]

Yes. I was B+ student before SH and lets just say im not anymore.
It hard to study for your future when you are sure you wont be there for it.
I used to think "If im going to die soon then i sure as hell aint gonna try hard at school for the time i have left"
Self harm brought low self esteem. Low self esteem brought depression. Depression brought suicidal thoughts. Then the end.

[The Joker]

Anyone, please, if you do self harm, don't do it when you are going to school. It will distract you, and bring down your grades, and you will feel worse. If you don't cut, you can do well and be happy with your grades, and that can lead to you being happy with yourself.

[Project Delta]

Well i was a straight a student and then my results from my gcse's were obviously affected by the depression and self harm..

[Sleepless_Shadow]

Yes and no, because sometimes when i dont s.h its all i can think about and cant consentrate, but when i do cut its just i cba with anything and i have mood swings:confused:

[GreyxRainbow]

Yes. I think it does. I can't concentrate in school because I am having thoughts about SH, and because I am so nervous. I only once self harmed in the school, and the hours after that were so hard, I couldn't concentrate at all. It felt like everyone knew what I just did. I often can't study because I think of SH too much.

[Atonement]

I doubt that you guys are effected by self harm in school which screws with your work. Like Waiting said, the mental health is what gets you, not the self harm. I'd assume that's what it is for most people here.

[SincEreLyYeLLiNgBaCk]

i dunno for me it depends on how bad it is, usually i use school as a distraction from cutting (i like throw myself into my work), but sometimes it backfires and i get extremely overwhelmed and all i can think of is cutting. Also, i find that cutting distracts me, like if i'm having a tough night and i cut, there is no way i'm gonna be able to wind down and finish my hw. (unless i get unusually determined and soldier through it)

[piggy-wiggy]

I doubt that you guys are effected by self harm in school which screws with your work. Like Waiting said, the mental health is what gets you, not the self harm. I'd assume that's what it is for most people here.

i totally get what ye are saying, but then i think that this yr, being the first yr of self harm, i think it defonitly affected my grades. wether it was worring about people seeing, teachers nd students, or just plain thinking about it non-stop..
and my results are out on wednesday, and i know for a fact that they dropped dramatically sinces my pre's...
im just dreding wat there gona say, im not gona cope if there as bad as i think..
but all-in-all , yeah i think the whole self harm thing does wffect m grades, but as above, it could just be the mental health side...... =/

[ShatteredWings]

I doubt that you guys are effected by self harm in school which screws with your work. Like Waiting said, the mental health is what gets you, not the self harm. I'd assume that's what it is for most people here.

Hm, true. the feelings and stress are really what are distracting, not the individual marks.


ironically, most of last year, the huge amount of stress CAME FROM school, making it all worse.

[eikookmi]

Well i wouldn't say cutting persay. Maybe depression? Staying up all night laying there doing completely nothing feeling lifeless perhaps cutting. Morning feeling like crap so i slept, failed that first class. Then there's that attitude you get where you just dont give a ****. So yes, I'd say it affected my schoolwork. Before depression/cutting hit me, i actually cared about my grades.

[OnlyByTheNight.]

Honestly I dunno.

It did definately affect me during my exams before the summer because alot of the nights I was too pre-occupied with trying not to cut that I couldn't concentrate on my study so ya..... Anyway my results are out tomorrow, and I know I will probably drop a grade in most subjects from my mocks.

But overall I find that school distracts me from SH. It is more my depression that affects my schoolwork tbh.

[theOperaGhost]

I doubt that you guys are effected by self harm in school which screws with your work. Like Waiting said, the mental health is what gets you, not the self harm. I'd assume that's what it is for most people here.

I have to disagree a little bit with this. The mental health gets you, however all the self harm is doing is adding on a ton of stress, which is obviously going to make your grades, concentration, etc...go down.

So I would say that the mental health wrecks your education, however the self harm adds to the mental health problem to make your education even worse.

There is no way you can self harm without making your education/grades suffer (IMO).

[Triceratops]

I get incredibly annoyed when people blame their poor school grades on self-harm and depression when they actually didn't try and make the effort to study, pay attention or work hard to achieve their targets. I am aware that some were not paticularly academic in the first place but it seems to me that a lot of people use self-harm and depression as an excuse for bad exam results or grades.

I am by no means saying that this is the situation for each and every self-harmer out there in the slightest. I just find that this is the case for more than plenty of individuals.