Suffering may be used for specific social or personal purposes. People may use suffering for themselves, in a good way. Personal suffering does not always categorize into the negatives; sometimes, it may lead to positive states such as character-building, spiritual growth, or moral achievement. People may make self-detrimental use of suffering - indulging in displeasing emotions like fear or anger, in order to enjoy the accompanying pleasant feelings of arousal or release, obsessive re-enactment of painful feelings in order to forget that they originated in traumatic past experiences, or committing acts of self-harm intended to relieve rather intolerable states of mind. Hedonism is the philosophy that puts pleasure in the pedestal as the highest pursuit of mankind, and the only good thing for an individual. The term "hedonism," came from the Greek word “hedone” meaning pleasure. It refers to several related theories about what is good for our well-being, the correct behavior, and the motivations that influence us to behave in the way we do. All hedonistic theories identify pleasure and pain the only things of uttermost importance. …show more content…
Frequent self-harm can also be manifested by people belonging to a group that self-harm together, since being exposed to the act may increase your chances of doing it as well, and people who are traumatized by physical, emotional or sexual abuse during childhood. It can be associated with depression, but not everyone who is depressed self-harms; likewise, not all who self-harm have depression. Self-harm is also not an act of attempted suicide; there is no intention to kill oneself, although particular forms of self-harm could unintentionally be a cause of death. It is therefore not, in itself, nihilistic. It is not an attempt to end