u/PitifulTomatillo1671

>!Okay to start this off, I have been self harming since around June of this year. Only cat scratches though, mostly because I don't have good "equipment", but I digress. Recently I have been seriously thinking about shaving my arm hair to make it easier for me to cut myself, since currently when I cut myself my hair usually gets caught up against the blade and makes it hurt real bad. I just wanted to get your guys opinion on if I am too far gone. I am realizing this sounds so stupid, but I am posting it anyways.!<

Does anybody else get a weird swelling around their fresh cuts? Like form me, the skin directly next to the cut rises up a bit for some reason, is this normal?

P.s. it's not a huge amount of swelling or anything, but it is noticeable when I put my fingers on it.

So recently I have been thinking about upgrading my old hp laptop with a celeron n4120 to a 2017 macbook air with a core i5 and 8gb of ram and 256gb of storage, for about $120 (I cannot find anything cheaper with similar specs where I live). The main thing I am scared about is that I would not be able to effectively use it. I plan to run arch or another arch based distro on it, using it mainly for web browsing, a little bit of gaming (minecraft), and some light coding on python through vscodium.