I'm 12, I burn myself almost daily. There was originally a reason, but it never feels like it was "enough." I was never in enough pain, danger, or going through enough to self harm. Honestly I think the burns were originally a way of saying "If others can cause me harm, I'll get through it." So I picked up a box of matches and just burned my inner thigh. I did that for about a week, just to get through it, and that was 2 or 3 years ago. I stopped for a while, I didn't "need" it anymore. But recently I mentioned self harm to a friend, and because I wasn't doing it anymore it didn't feel "real" like I needed to experience it again if I wanted to talk about it. So I'm back to burning. Every second of every day it's all I can think about and honestly it's a curse, I just want that pain to go away but now when I burn it's comforting because it's making me feel like what I say is actually real.