How to Help Someone Who’s Self-Harming

  Some emotions are too raw. They’re the kind that we don’t really know what to do with and that stick to us like an extra layer, like a strange substance that stings and makes life difficult. To alleviate this pain, some resort to self-harm. This involves injury to the body that seeks to channel and or anesthetize emotional suffering for a moment. Self-harm is a completely dysfunctional act. However, behind it lies a highly complex amalgamation of triggers and reasons that the individual struggles to deal with. Not do they understand them. Furthermore, this behavior is considered to be…