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Well, I don't know if the whole reason is to feel. I self-hurt for quite a while ... more to stop feeling than anything else. The second paragraph there fits more accurately into my scenario, at least.

I guess it's kind of like drinking though; the effect of it lessons with time as your own threshold increases ... & further / worse pain needs to be inflicted to get the same result. Eventually, less reason / justification was needed for it as well ... & the silliest things had me doing it.

It's a nasty cycle, but I believe anyone can beat it! It's just a matter of finding what works for you, meds & therapy weren't for me, but they may be for others. I'm still far from perfect, but; getting healthier each day!

PS;

TV is really bad as well. How can anyone enjoy life, when all you see on TV is the risks entailed with it? If you drink, you die. Smoke, you die. Make a single mistake on the road (ie 5kmph over) ... you die, or someone else does! In which case, your life is over anyway.

I really am sick of all these commercials, sick to death of 'em! Commercials for depression, & spotting it ... creating awareness in a negative sense; as if folks with it are something to be pitied .... all these commercials do is show the very worst / extremes of these conditions; which makes those who have something slightly more mild feel worse. It's like rubbing salt in the wound!

Heck, even if you're a healthy person ... watch enough TV, and you'll probably develop anxiety! These commercials are psychologically designed to instill fear, & sadness - in the hopes of deterring the actions; watch enough, & one could become paralyzed by it. The sad music, the crying faces ... ugh, how about some government sponsored commercials that show the joy in life? Depressed folk that have made it out, just some commercials with happy people, & happy music.