About self harming.

[MissMiserable]

There are several different ways that people self harm.
Cutting
Burning
Picking at skin or re-opening wounds
Hair-pulling (Trichotillomania)
Hitting
Bone-breaking
Head-banging (Against objects, not like in mosh pitts.)

There are so many reasons as to why people self injure.
Here are a few different reasons.

Self-injury provides a reminder to some of being real or being alive. Injuring oneself is a way to externalize emotional internal pain – to feel pain on the outside instead of the inside

Self-injury is a way to be in control of something, pain – unlike the pain experienced through physical or sexual abuse.

Self-injury is a way to break emotional numbness. Some people can cut and feel nothing, self-anesthesia. You cut to feel something other than nothing. But sometimes you won't feel it.

Self-abuse is self-soothing behavior for someone who does not have other means to calm intense emotions.

Self-loathing – some self-injurers are punishing themselves for having strong feelings, or for a sense that somehow they are bad and undeserving. They punish themselves for not being good enough.

Self-injury followed by tending to wounds is a way to express self-care, to be self-nurturing, for someone who never learned how to do that in a more direct way. A way to feel like someone cares. Even if it is you.

Harming oneself can be a way to draw attention to the need for help, to ask for assistance in an indirect way.

Sometimes self-injury is an attempt to affect others – to manipulate them, make them feel guilty or bad, make them care, or make them go away.

Now-a-days, some people do it because others do it. This is being called the "emo" fad. Which in my opinion is an insult and highly ridiculous. People shouldn't hurt themselves to fit in with a group. Then again, in a sense, they could be doing it to feel as if they belong somewhere...