As a child, did you hurt yourself for attention?

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I confess that I did, such a little drama queen and now I’m suffering the consequences.
Growing up is a need.

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2

No- it never crossed my mind

3

i punished myself with excessive dieting as a child makes me cross that no one even noticed.

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4

i did once but i covered it up with a sweat band. my daughter scratches herself but she won’t show me what she does. her boyfriend told me about it. she has post traumatic stress disorder, undiagnosed. she thinks it’s m.e…who knows maybe she’s got both.

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I hurt myself physically a few times. I went into this fantasy life where All of my family was killed + everyone cared about me + respected me for carrying that load so well. Hey - and I was building an ‘atom bomb’ for my science project! They all admired me for carrying out such a complicated project.

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i used to scratch my whole body from feet to face untill you could see the welts…still no one noticed.
take care

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7

Never for attention really…but I cut at my arm with scissors once when I was 14 and burned my girlfriends initials into my left arm…but then I wasn’t much of a child anymore at 14 either.

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For attention-never! The last thing I ever wanted was to be noticed by anyone.

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9

I never did. I hurt myself for real. Like crashing with the snowracer landing face first in the ice. Looking like Freddy Krueger. Bleeding like crazy.

I got beaten a lot. Hard to fake injuries to get attention. If I cried I was weak and deserved more punishment. I still have a hard time to cry.

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i hurt myself because i truly believed i was such a worthless person, that i needed to die or be in pain. self hate for being gay