I know exactly what you mean. But yes, harm is harm regardless of how severe or “minor”. You don’t need any validation because what matters is your emotional and mental pain is valid. What happens on the outside is just a symptom of that.

You said what I was feeling exactly damn😞

Does anyone else feel like their scars aren't "valid". I have this fear that if I showed someone my scars they would think it's not that bad at all, so I've been trying to go deeper and deeper.

It also doesn't help that I only sh where I can cover, so on my wrist there's just a strip of scars instead of being spread out and idk it just looks so fake and stupid to me. I know that self harm is self-harm, doesn't matter how many or how severe, but I can't stop wanting to make more big scars to really let myself see that I am bad enough

There's also this issue where I know I want to get help and get past this, but at the same time I reject or refuse to seek it out unless it comes to me because I don't want to be normalized? I'm not sure how to convey it without offending some people.

It's already an addiction, but I can't help thinking that I'm faking all the symptoms and doing this just because I need attention and sympathy and validation and it sucks so much.

Validation