Self harm and HFA

Martian Tom said:

I self-harm with drink.  It's medication - but I also use it as a way to make myself deliberately unwell.  Sometimes I also do it as an act of deliberate self-sabotage.

I'm someone who views it as a coping method: I'm reluctant to say it's a form of self-harm (unless it really is) as that's a form of blame refocussing.  Which I admit is a phrase I just made up, but hopefully it's suitably explanatory.  Sometimes people's coping methods come at a cost whatever they are.  And occasionally we deliberately do stuff that hurts us, because... well, because.  That doesn't mean that the thing in question or the usual intent is fundamentally toxic, though.

I hasten to add I'm not being argumentative or anything.  Just seeing things from my viewpoint which may not be everybody else's viewpoint.

The flippant part of me has arrived and says "hello, and everybody else is wrong.  lol.  I also want a curry."  The flippant part of me is an idiot, but I agree with her about the curry.

Martian Tom said:

I self-harm with drink.  It's medication - but I also use it as a way to make myself deliberately unwell.  Sometimes I also do it as an act of deliberate self-sabotage.

I'm someone who views it as a coping method: I'm reluctant to say it's a form of self-harm (unless it really is) as that's a form of blame refocussing.  Which I admit is a phrase I just made up, but hopefully it's suitably explanatory.  Sometimes people's coping methods come at a cost whatever they are.  And occasionally we deliberately do stuff that hurts us, because... well, because.  That doesn't mean that the thing in question or the usual intent is fundamentally toxic, though.

I hasten to add I'm not being argumentative or anything.  Just seeing things from my viewpoint which may not be everybody else's viewpoint.

The flippant part of me has arrived and says "hello, and everybody else is wrong.  lol.  I also want a curry."  The flippant part of me is an idiot, but I agree with her about the curry.