You could lock yourself inside and suffocate, especially if you are alone and no one can hear you. Never try to force yourself into a hiding space that's too small for you. If you get stuck, you'll have bigger problems on your hands than being discovered. Head for the attic or basement. These spaces tend to be crammed full of boxes, old furniture, and little nooks and crannies, which can make excellent hiding places of their own. Most people won't go to the trouble of inspecting behind, under, and around each and every object, so you're likely to get away unnoticed.
Some people are too afraid to venture into attics and basements at all, meaning there's a chance they won't even be willing to go in after you. Basements and attics tend to be dusty, so breathe through your mouth to prevent a bout of noisy sneezing.
Method 3. Climb a tree. Look around for trees with thick canopies—these will provide the best cover. Since you'll be well above the average person's line of sight, the person hunting for you will likely be too busy checking all the usual ground-level spots to figure out where you've gone.
The same basic rules of hiding apply when you're in a tree: remain quiet and still. Rustling leaves can be a dead-give away. Crouch in a bush. You don't actually have to get inside the bush. In most situations, simply getting low and staying behind it will be good enough. Just like with trees, though, avoid making any sudden movements that might cause the bush to shake, or you could end up blowing your cover. Watch out for bushes with thorns or spiky leaves.
If you're not careful, you could get scraped up as you climb in or out. Retreat into a garage or shed. These places tend to be dark and a little scary, which means the person looking for you is less likely to venture into them after you. Best of all, there's often so many tools, vehicles, and pieces of equipment around that you'll have access to multiple hiding spots within your hiding spot.
Don't hide in a shed or garage on someone else's property. You could get in trouble if you're caught trespassing. It's not a good idea to hide underneath a car or truck, either.
Sneak under the porch. On many houses, the areas under the front and back steps have open spaces built into them for storage.
Look for a way to get under the porch or deck of the house where you're laying low. There may be a small door or gate, or you may be able to squeeze into an opening around the edge of the house.
Watch out for potentially dangerous creatures while you're down below. Dark, damp spaces are often home to snakes, spiders, mice, and other creepy-crawlies. Lie in wait in a pile of leaves. Fallen leaves make excellent natural camouflage.
Dive into a freshly-raked mound and pull the loose leaves on top of yourself until you're completely concealed. Your friends will never suspect a thing—unless you decide to pop out and scare them senseless! Leaf piles can be breeding grounds for mold and bacteria, especially when they're wet, so avoid completely covering your face and try not to spend too much time inside. Move under the cover of darkness. Darkness is the ultimate concealment. If you have nowhere else to post up, stick to the shadows, where you'll be practically invisible to your pursuers.
Even if you're not completely blocked from view, you'll still be able to fade into the background and move stealthily from place to place.
If the person looking for you is using a flashlight, try to find a large object to stand behind when they get close. What if someone finds my map of hiding spots? Should I leave a decoy map out just in case?
Not Helpful 32 Helpful What's a good spot for when they don't count and you have to just outrun them enough to hide without being seen? Unless you're much faster than the person looking for you, you'll need to find a spot that's nearby and easily accessible.
Inside a closet or behind a piece of furniture might work indoors. If you're outside, try crouching at the bottom of a ditch, ducking behind a bush, or scrambling up a tree. Even if you have a good spot, you're more likely to be discovered if the person is right on your tail! Not Helpful 35 Helpful I wouldn't recommend it.
This sounds pretty unsafe, especially if the pool is full. Not Helpful 45 Helpful No, because you are not covered. If you're hiding outside, make sure you can somehow see all around you. If you see the person looking for you, run the other way, or whatever way is available. Have a backup hiding spot so it would take them longer to find you. Not Helpful 31 Helpful Run away and yell as loudly as possible. Throw anything around you down in the path of your pursuer as this may slow them down.
Draw as much attention to yourself as possible. If there is no one around, then try to hide. This also works if you are in a large crowd of people if you don't want to cause a scene. Not Helpful 28 Helpful Hiding in a place where you pursuer has already look can be an excellent strategy, but only if it's a strong hiding spot on it's own.
Moving into an open area where you may be visible can still put you at risk of being seen, even if the person has already inspected it. Not Helpful 19 Helpful You are strong, you are brave, you are resilient and you are loved. But I want you to know I care about you, that you are worthy of love and care and support and help.
I want you to remember that. Those urges were overwhelming and you tried to fight them, but eventually they overwhelmed you and you gave in. That takes true strength, and you are so much stronger than you could possibly know.
Those wounds are your battle scars. I want to make something clear. I do not want you to cut. Other people feel how you feel. Other people understand. Within two years, I was hurting myself for hours at a time, and even required stitches on one occasion.
I once stepped into a public bathroom stall to self-injure at 8 p. The next time I looked at my watch, three hours had passed. I approached cutting my thigh with the same time-dilating attentiveness normally reserved for marathoning Orange is the New Black. Netflix At least viewers get to have a year-long break between sessions. Since most people think of addiction as a chemical thing, this highlights the difference between an "addiction" and a "coping mechanism": Basically, coping mechanisms don't mess up your life.
If you get into exercise or knitting, you can build sexy new biceps or a new sweater to cover those biceps with those two coping mechanisms don't have a lot of synergy. But with an addiction like self-harm, you still "cope" with the immediate problem, but you also get loads of scarring, shame, and a new secret to keep from everyone around you.
And yes, there are withdrawal symptoms if you try to quit another person with experience in self-harm I've spoken with describes tremors and headaches when they tried to stop. Endorphins function like heroin , so when you stop doing the thing that produces them, your body gets mad as hell and starts screaming for that metaphorical needle in your arm. It's been shown that treating victims of self-injury with endorphin-blockers magically makes them stop wanting to cut.
But it gets even weirder. Another person I spoke to, who we'll call Emily, said she eventually developed an allergy to Band-Aids. And she's not alone ; it's not technically an allergy, but a condition called contact dermatitis , which develops after prolonged exposure to some irritating substance -- in this case, the adhesive in the Band-Aids that you keep plastering on yourself.
Eventually, your skin goes on constant high alert, freaking the hell out whenever that substance touches you. So in addition to being all strung out and achy, now you're breaking out in itchy hives. Because the scars and bleeding clearly weren't making you self-conscious enough. Since news reports love controversy and hate being the last to know something, they tend to treat self-harm as a Scary New Youth Trend, like planking or posting racism in YouTube comments.
So the last time self-harm became visible in the press was when everyone was worrying about or mocking "emo" culture a few years ago, as if the self-harm was part of the fad, along with the eye makeup and swooped black bangs. When an emo teenager's suicide made headlines in the UK , the press there wrote off both her death and her self-harm as part of her My Chemical Romance fandom.
But no genre of music or movies, or whatever popularized self harm, since it pre-dates the invention of recorded music by something like all the centuries. You can find references to self-harm in the writing of frickin' Herodotus, and with the so-called "needle girls" of 19th Century England -- women who'd compulsively stab themselves with sewing needles, over and over.
Who knows how long the doctors there thought these "hysterical" women merely had really shitty hand-eye coordination. Wikimedia Commons Perhaps that's why they insisted on treating hysteria with masturbation.
Considering we know this is an addiction and a symptom of deeper problems, that shouldn't be that surprising -- things used to suck a lot more than they suck now, and their understanding of mental illness was, somehow , even more bass ackwards than ours. But to this day, the average person is mostly in the dark about self-harm. It doesn't help that Columbia Pictures.
There are a ton of great, sweeping epics about addiction. But as far as mature depictions of self-harm, there's Girl, Interrupted , and I think that's it. If I've missed one, let me know.
Tri-Star Pictures Terminator 2 doesn't count. The point is that when self-harm is depicted in media, it's an afterthought, or worse, something the main character gets over immediately. Degrassi Yeah, I watch it. What has featured three self-injurers: Ellie saw a therapist once and got over it, the transgender character Adam indulged during his transition to being male and never again , and for Cam, well, it was used to foreshadow his suicide, because what other direction could it possibly take him?
But the worst example is Maggie Gyllenhaal's character in the movie Secretary -- she self-harms until her boss orders her to stop, setting the tone for their future BDSM relationship Incidentally, I had a friend who was into BDSM try this on me once. It didn't work. In movies, if kinky sex isn't causing psychiatric problems, it's curing them, which forces me to conclude that no one in Hollywood has ever had sex. Lionsgate Films Not being able to use your arms doesn't mean you're cured.
Obviously the point isn't that I'm jealous of all the attention the cooler addictions get -- the point is that the culture has spent an entire generation teaching people to take those addictions seriously, and that make a huge difference.
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