Just curious to know others takes on this
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Depression I think I’m not sure
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coping mechanism.
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People say it’s a physical manifestation of emotional pain, which I agree with, but I think it’s more than that.
For me, it was a way to punish myself for my perceived inadequacy, and pure loathing of the self.
Once I started learning self acceptance, my mutilation started to subside. Not overnight, but I’ve made a lot of progress with time and the determination to love myself.
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My mother died when I was 13. I had no one to talk to about it. I felt so numb so to not feel as numb I cut my wrist. There’s a scar too. You can’t see it if you don’t point it out though. Thankfully
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For me it wasn’t because I wanted to kill myself. I “bought time” with it, so I would be able to live longer. I self harmed myself every way I could, but mostly cutting. I have scars in both arms,wrist to shoulder.
At first I thought it was what people did when they were depressed and hurting inside… then I got addicted. I don’t really know how I got so lost with all of that. I was just so, so sick. Kind of sad, really.
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Because it is pain they can control.
You can’t control pain from outside sources, but the act of physically hurting oneself is totally controlled by the person doing it. Can be a little sting to a burning, anguish.
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No one else will let me do it to them.
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I do it for the control. 
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i havent self harmed since the year 97 but it was just a reaction to the emense pain i was in at the time.
just my experience.
unless you count a needle but that was 2004 then. it was just because i couldnt grt high.
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Because they hate themselves due to at some level feeling complicit in what happened to them, whether they were or not.
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I have a whole bunch of scars on my left arm since I am right handed. Some are obvious but most have faded with age. I cut bc like @Loke said I felt so numb or as @anon4362788 wisely said it is a pain I could control.
I have not cut since I had to explain to my poor mother why I hurt myself. I never want to do that to her again.
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It helps me if I hold an ice cube. 
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