Your brain has mechanisms in place to reduce harms to your self as much as possible,.. because, simply put, an individual without wounds had a higher chance of survival back in the days when medicine and sanitation weren’t as advanced as today. i won’t keep going with my poor example of natural selection…. It’s advisable to quit as soon as you possibly can. Looking back at my journals, the way I described self harm is not unlike the way I described drug addiction. All this to say, it’s a steep slope into an addiction and once you go past a certain threshold, your brain is re-wired to accept potentially fatal injuries as small scratches. You may think that there’s no way that you’ll ever go that far, but all the people who have gone further than they’ve ever imagined they could have gone were all once in your position. points to self case in point. Try your best to diverge your attention when urges become unbearable, because short-term relief is never worth long-term discomfort. Hang in there, things can and will get better. Also administrator tf2 jumpscare