i'm doing a school project and need help

[Asylum]

I need this ASAP i have until the end of Febuary. i could really use your posts!

hey guys, like stated in the title, i'm doing a school project and need some help. if you guys woud share your reason that would be awesome. also if you could share your age, and gender would be nice. you will go anonoumously. also if you are into the "emo" dress style ( just want to show people that most people are not "emo" that self harm) , include any other informaiton you owuld like t oshare... like idk..anything u think suffienct thanx :)

[Project Delta]

Aaron
16
Male
Started self harm about a year ago. And had small troubles with it. and although i wasnt in it very long i still have troubles with it now. I am seen as an emo by many but personally i dont think i have that dress sense.

[Asylum]

thank you so much Aaron :) i'm thinking about giving good rep to people who ehlp me out on this project :D

[Seeker94]

Yeah I kinda dress emo anything I can without my gma yelling at me. almost dyed my hair to. I started to cut like last summer to prove appoint now know it was deppression I know stupid right. I currently am still cutting well on the road to trying to quit. I still cut because of school bullies and how I just feel plain left out.

Bryant(you can use my name if you want)
15
Male

[screamtobeheard]

I started...I'm not sure how long ago, but it didn't start bad. I'd get frustrated or stressed or screamed at by my mom and I'd either dig my fingernails into my skin so hard it left marks for a long time or I'd actually bite my skin (I know it's gross, but I couldn't really help it). I didn't really think of it as self harm until I started cutting. The reasons are still pretty much the same. Stress, not being good enough, feeling alone, numbness, anger, pressure to be perfect.

I'm not really that into the "emo" dress style, but there are some elements from it in my dress, I suppose. I don't consider myself "emo".

15, female.

Hope this helps.

[Aspiringanonymous]

It happened because, to be absolutely honest, the destructive forces within me sought to perpetuate itself, and this was one of the most powerful ways in which it was able to do so. I never quite experienced the same reactions as most others claim to - relief, calmness, even 'happiness'. It had the effect of preserving sanity while on the verge of breakdown (because rather than initiating a mental explosion, the chaos was now able to express itself physically, though in no lesser magnitude), but otherwise, nothing else that would be classified as 'nice'.

People don't hear of this much, though - that 'the depression' was so powerful, it convinced the mind that its continued domination was the best way to go, through which it gained a loyal slave that would do literally anything to preserve its influence.

Now that I really think about it, that's about all there was to it.

And, no, I've never been interested in dressing 'emo'. I'm your average goody-two-shoes that most people simply overlook without a thought.

15, female.

[Asylum]

thanx guys you really have no idea how much this means to me :D

[Xistrance]

22
Male
UK
Started selfharming 7 years ago for a constant duration of 5 years.
Reason : I came to terms with my own mortality, and that it would be so much easier to not exist and skip hardship in life and eternally sleep. I had a normal upbringing, then learnt about the hate, mutilation and genocide the human race spews. Had a large problem between me and my step-father and his daughter, made me spiral into drugs, crime and intense paranoia, depression and a crushing feeling of numbness

Dress sense : Hard to describe unless you live in UK;
Adidas shoes
tight jeans (not skin tight, but thin towards the shin/ankle, a loose fit skinny jean)
no preference T-shirt (obv colour matches my shoes)
black superdry tight jacket (usually with adidas jacket underneath with matching colours to shoes)
And i have a fringe when im not in iraq.

So its slightly emo/chav - only due to the adidas, stereotypes :(
and emos here usually wear skate shoes with tight jeans and a tight plain black hoodie

unless they have no style then its the "grunge" style, baggies, baggy hoodie.

[Asylum]

thank you very much :)

[Xistrance]

Np. Hope your school project goes well!

[Asylum]

same and thanx again : D

[Indystar]

17, Male
Started 4 years ago - I had a lot of depression and anxiety attacks, and a friend told me cutting was a good release. Some friend, huh? It took 3 years to stop completely, but I still relapse whenever I get really panicky.
I dress pretty conservatively, jeans and a hoody for the most part. Oddly, I dressed 'emo' for the period I -wasn't- self-harming.

[Beautiful Obsession]

Holliee,, 15, female,
startingg cuttingg over a year agoo.. i aint an emo im quite girly lol.
i started cutting because i couldnt tal to anyone about the abuse, it made me feel better about myself and relieved stress.
Hopee it helps (: x

[ShatteredWings]

15/male(trans)
I'm not "emo", and never really have been imo. Indie, maybe...but I don't fit into a stereotype.

I fly under the radar for being thought of cutting. I'm a "good student", and i'm good at pretending I'm happy

I've in some way shape or form harmed myself for a long time. i bit myself starting around 8/9 because of home and school stress/abuse, then stopped at around 11.
When I was 13 it started again and escalated into cutting... same old reasons, but I stopped coping, and started having anxiety problems.
Anymore it's how I deal with things, and I'm trying to stop.
2 months and some odd days, and I'm still struggling not to pick up the blade again.

[janjanTRIP_]

I need this ASAP i have until the end of Febuary. i could really use your posts!

hey guys, like stated in the title, i'm doing a school project and need some help. if you guys woud share your reason that would be awesome. also if you could share your age, and gender would be nice. you will go anonoumously. also if you are into the "emo" dress style ( just want to show people that most people are not "emo" that self harm) , include any other informaiton you owuld like t oshare... like idk..anything u think suffienct thanx :)

im jan, 14
the only time i actually cut is when im soooo mad . like pisssed. which isn't that often.
and im not into that emo shit , ahha

[Asylum]

thanx guys :D

[Hatsune Miku]

Matt
14
Male
I started self harming about a year ago. I just picked up a knife and it all went downhill from there. I started because I had no friends, nothing. My step dad was deported to portugal when I was little and my new step dad moved it. The years with him were hell. He was a total jerk. And not even trying to be a real dad. Nobody ever liked me, or would even talk to me.Alot of people say im "emo" because I like wearing black, and because my hair is really long and straight :/ I wear black because all my band tees are black and I like showing people what I listen to, it kinda defines me. And theres nothing I can really do about my hair, I mean... It's my hair

[munchausen]

Damian, 16, (17 this saturday), and male obviously and I'm not into emo culture.
I started to self harm 6 years ago well about that when I was 11, at the time I did it to deal with the abuse I got from my dad and as you probably know already I was raped when I was 7 years old so, that didn't really help things. To be honest my reasons changed over the years, first it was guilt I thought maybe it was my fault that this had happened to me maybe I was a bad kid and that's why my dad hit me all the time or maybe if I had been one of those "ugly" kids no-one likes then I wouldn't have been... anyway eventually it turned from guilt to anger at the people who did this to me like if I couldn't hurt them I may as well hurt myself. Then I realised I was cutting for the sake of cutting or sometimes to snap myself out of a state where I felt so numb to everything I couldn't even pretend to be happy anymore. Sometimes I do it to "play" with the blood. I guess I've become obsessed with it, I love to feel it running down my arm all warm and wet and the pattern the drips make before they pool together on the tiled floor. Sometimes I use that as ink and draw pictures, horrible pictures that make me sick to look at unless I'm in that state of total dissociation.

[Project Delta]

Asking Permission to use this for a School Presentation myself Please? :)

[KChiChi]

Arafa*
14
went emo because my friends labeled me as the bipolar-freak. now i stick sharp ends into myself -resulted to soft-tip pens just in case, though, i can't stop growing my nails long for a bit of pain just in case(kind of addicted). last incident included a bathtub and about twenty sharp pens. i have self-control though. i have no idea why i get depressed so quickly -all i know is that whenever that happens, the bathtub/pens scenario happens all over again.. i'm not really emo because i love laughing -but then, i don't like my friends. when they're around me, i mean. i wear dark clothes, but i'm very open. i dance and sing -other than that, i'm against all contanct with other people.
helpful?!?!

[BeautifulDisaster]

Aimee
17 years old
Female
Started when I was 7 years old.
Started due to severe anger problems, very impulsive, hurt myself, got worse, more reasons came along(ie; abuse, neglect, bullying, molest, anger, upset, numb, apathetic, wanting to see cuts, blood, etc, I'm sure you've seen my reasons in other threads), still do self harm at times but it's not as severe as it has been.
Not an "emo".

[Kaius]

Aaron
17 Years old
Started when i was 13/14
Started because of grief over a friends death.
Im seen as an emo, because of being a known self harmer/Suicide attempts in the past, the type of music i listen to. I don't really think theres any other reason for it though, can't say i dress emo.
Been clean for 2 months now, hopefully will keep going.

[Asylum]

your going to have to ask all htose other people if you can use theres Aaron
thank guys :)

[Project Delta]

Okay. Will do :P i just didnt want to make another thread when there is already one open

[1_21Guns]

Natalie.
15.
Female.
Started it when I was 14, shortly before summer. Purely because I felt really bad, I didn't know what I was doing anymore, i'd completely lost all hope, it felt like noone cared anyway, so why the hell shouldn't I. But how wrong was I. I've stopped now, last time I cut was around January. By the end, it didn't even hurt or feel the same, I just liked watching my own blood. Sounds sick, but I was sick, i'm not much better now. The cravings haven't gone, and i'm still left in this mess.
I don't wear "emo" clothes, just generally jeans a t-shirt and a hoodie.
Good luck with your project.

[Asylum]

thanx guys :D

[Lemonlover934]

15
Female
Started about a year ago. Seen as happy by most, certainly not considered Emo. Started Because after supressing everything i hadn't actually coped and then i made a mistake and got angry and it led on from there. Its the only way i have found to cope now. Go through upsides and downsides but truly feels like part of me now, almost like part of life. Hope You Do Well In Project

[Scarface]

17
male
i started self harm at 14 and it was every once and awhile then turned to an almost every time i hurt weather a small problem of a big

[girl on a string]

samantha.
19.
female.
self harming on and off for 5 years. in the beginning it was minor but it has slowly escalated, and is getting worse.
and no, i dont have an emo style.