What would be the reason for someone abusing themselves instead of being angry?
Sometimes people have trouble letting out emotions to other people. Sometimes its difficult for them to show other people that they’re angry because people could judge them and say things like it’s “no big deal” and “get over it” or even “You have no one else to blame but yourself”, being the most common comments so instead they choose to let out the anger on themselves and blame themselves for it. Sometimes they find it easier. You said “abusing themselves” and now abusing themselves could be mentally or physically. Physically they choose to hit themselves, bite themselves, cut themselves, burn themselves and a lot of other things, sometimes people are very creative in the way they hurt themselves and most of the time dont let people know about it. Then there’s “self-blame” which also is included in “abusing themselves” because as hurtful as it is to cut yourself or anything I mentioned above, we all know how hurtful it is when terrible words are said and so they choose to yell at the
