I don’t really understand why people do it. Not like “they’re doing it because they are depressed and feel bad”, I had depression myself but never had a call to injure myself. I hate pain, and doing something painful to myself while I’m already feeling bad doesn’t really sound appealing. So I don’t quite get what self-harm gives people so they keep doing it.
Like, is it a way to “ground” yourself and stop dissociating, or is it “just to feel anything at all”, or as a “punishment”, or something else?
Discussing something with a therapist is an entirely different proposition to reading about it online.
And why does that imply that reading about it online isn’t helpful?
It doesn’t imply that it isn’t helpful.
Clearly, there are risks around this type of discussion which a therapist is trained to manage.