self-harm harm reduction
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community guidelines (last updated august 2026)
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1–2 minutesit goes without saying that there are going to be some triggering topics on this blog and some people may find the content offensive. so i think its important to establish some community guidelines. first of all this is not a pro-self-harm or pro-eating-disorder space. any comments encouraging other users to begin continue or escalate…
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the unspoken question behind self-harm
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2–3 minutesi began self-harming in infancy, before i could speak. before i could conceptualise what self-harm meant, my body and nervous system were already primed to receive regulation in the form of pain. this trend continued as i got older and did escalate slightly from hitting and biting to cutting, but the key factor is that…
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this blog and its author are not pro-self-harm or pro-eating disorder (but also not pro-recovery and that’s okay too)
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3–4 minutesthis blog, as mentioned in the last post is going to start to contain a lot darker content than was previously put out on it. the transition from an evergreen computer blog to a personal disability narrative might be jarring, especially for people who end up on the blog from one of my evergreen posts.…
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in the spirit of making this feel more like a ‘mad hermit’s diary’
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1–2 minutesi’m going to just start posting, whenever, wherever. sticking to too rigid a structure for this blog sort of defeats its purpose as a living document regarding life as a disabled person in 2026 america. current narratives fail to centre actual disabled voices. they cast disability in a dichotomy of ‘pitiable’ or ‘inspiring’. there isn’t…
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tolerance break is… easier than i thought it would be
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3–5 minutesi’m two days off cannabis now, planning for an 8 week tolerance break to really downregulate those cb1 receptors because i don’t get high anymore, like at all, and it fucking blows. i know i’m a medical patient and so everyone expects me to be like “oh you know, i only use it for the…