If you're like the majority of self-injurers, you keep your self-harm activities a secret and you feel you have no other choice. Some people engage in self-injuring activities like cutting to help themselves cope with these feelings. Imagine having such overwhelming feelings of guilt, sadness, emptiness, self-hate, and rage that you don't know how to cope with it. These self-harm images may dredge up memories of past self-harming sessions, guilt, self-loathing, and other negative thought patterns that make people feel compelled to self injure again. Things that trigger teens, young adults and adults to self-harm vary by individual, but viewing other peoples' photos of self-injury represents one of the most common triggers. Other people may view self-mutilation pictures in an attempt to understand why teens and others self-injure or even for research purposes. For those who engage in this sort of behavior, the pictures may intensify or trigger their compulsion to cut, burn, or otherwise inflict injury upon themselves. Both those who engage in self-injury and those who do not may want to look at self-harm pictures.

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