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Does it count as self-harm?

A topic by Tomat!k created Sep 02, 2023 Views: 144 Replies: 2
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Our main character suffers from schizophrenia, which, taking form of his friend, laughs at him and bullies him. Diven that it's all in his head, but he doesn't physically hurts himself, does that apply as self-harm?

Apart from that, if a main character, having a panic attack, runs in through the street and gets run over by a car or smth, does that apply as self-harm?

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Bullying and taunting people does not violate the self harm rule, though if the bullying constitutes encouragements of suicide (e.g, "You should kill yourself."), it would in that case violate it.

Running into traffic with the intent to escape or flee, but getting harmed in the process is not self-harm.  The intent is to escape, not to inflict harm upon themselves.  If they ran into traffic to kill themselves, that would be intent and expression of suicide.   The intent is important.

Thank you very much for such a thorough explanation!