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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 6, College Student]

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Now?... I'm addicted.\n\nI started before I had any knowledge of what self harm was or even that such a thing existed... I was physically abused as a child and whenever I felt strong emotion (positive or negative) I would feel suffocated and out of control... so I would hit my head against walls, and so on, to make my brain work again...\n\nAfter a while I found whenever I stopped self harming I would feel uncontrollable emotional conflict and turbulence, I would shake and sweat, feel disorientated and sick, I'd lose concentration, be unable to sleep and I'd either resort to self harm again or I would placate myself with certain drugs and alcohol.

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[female, age 16, began to SI at age 6, College Student]
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