138 Quotes About Self-harm

There are too many people in my head. I claw at my body to get them out, to peel out the blackness spreading inside me.I’m running blind, ghosts swallowing me.

The incest victim's need for self-punishment often leads her into self-abusive behaviors like alcoholism, drug abuse, or prostitution.

I wish bad brain stuff was an actual guy I could punch in the face. PTSD, panic attacks, anxiety, flashbacks, hallucinations, anything that gives you hell, could just send'em to me, I'd fight them all. [...] Stuff's a lot harder to fight when they're stuck in your own head.""Yeah... didn't stop me from trying, though.

You've got a mouth like a razor blade, it cuts so deep.So kiss my wrists and my neck, give me eternal sleep.

The degree of satisfaction and relief lessened each time she opened a new wound, each time she drank a mouthful of her own rapidly thinning blood. Towards morning she was a whimpering mass of abstinence and anguish. Anguish because she knew what had to be done if she was to live.

The light in the room emphasised the array of bruises all over Jack’s body. The full-colour spectrum was present from sickly yellows, pooling purples, and blue blacks.

Her fight with alcohol had made for contentious exchanges and, if that were possible, even more contentious silences. Tony, empathetic to the point of self-harming, felt the pain of her abstinence as powerfully as anything he'd ever endured personally.

Love can be a form of self-harm.Craving affection can devastate

That's what was in my head in the attic when I took broken glass from my tender kit and began to cut myself into tiny pieces.