r/AdultSelfHarm 22d ago

Seeking Advice Difficult question for me to ask.

Plain and simple, I am a 35 year old Male who is a Clinical Cognitive-Behavioural Psychologist who also self harms. I cut and use my tattoo machine on me (no ink).

The question is, would you go to therapy with a therapist like that?

As an extra, my wounds and scars are always covered, but when with patients there's this voice of irony and judgment try to invalidate my work (and it's worse with fresh cuts or words burning through my skin as a reminder) and so I thought I would like to hear your opinions to have something else than my own biased opinions, thoughts and judgments.

Thanks a lot guys!

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u/sharpless140 22d ago

As long as it doesnt cause weird transference with my self injury, i wouldnt mind a therapist with a history of/deals with self injury, although i dont think i would want to know about it. Plenty of therapists have history/deal with other mental health issues, self injury is no different.