[Oxytocin]

Self-harmers can all SH for different reasons. The idea of cutting for attention makes sense to me because I used to do it. I was struggling and I guess I didn't know how to communicate this to other people and thought that if I just told them they wouldn't take it seriously enough and would think I was just exaggerating. I thought that if I added a physical element of my emotional pain and somebody 'caught' me, then they would believe my pain was actually serious. I can understand why it might seem that people who cut for attention are mocking the SHers that don't, but sometimes the person can actually really be struggling and just not know another way to tell someone else that they do need help.