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is it just me, or do other people do it too?
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i have had alot go on in my life that left me down. but i never have resorted to cutting myself. what would it achive? I understand that some people don't handle things well or something so terrible has happened that they can't deal with it. But does sliceing yourself really change anything? Wont the problem still be there? There are over 6 billion people on the planet all they have to do is talk to one of them and get help.
I relise that people mite just say i am ignorant but its the way i see things. There is always someone that can help in every situation look for them even if they think that no-one can help. I think people are wrong in making light of the situation, i do this in alot of threads but not ones that are about a serious topic.
I relise that people mite just say i am ignorant but its the way i see things. There is always someone that can help in every situation look for them even if they think that no-one can help. I think people are wrong in making light of the situation, i do this in alot of threads but not ones that are about a serious topic.
Way to go with the generalisations everybody.
Usually i can read a Goatboy post and see something in it that might have some logic, i don't generally agree but i can see his point however on this occassion you are talking out of your @rse.
Firstly i've a friend of the family who has a history of it, she's no teenager, she's 48, she started when she was 32 because her daughter was being abused by her husband, even when she left him after years she can't stop, she works and she doesn't sit around all day.
Of the people i know who have self harmed by cutting themselves, most have had very good reasons ranging from being beaten up by their partners to other stuff i'm just not going into.
As for the attention seeking, firstly they need attention, secondly they hide it which is why it's done in private, thirdly how many people have you seen walking around town who have obviously done it, they are the long sleeve brigade, this idea that they're looking for attention is garbage.
If this had been some newbie talking crap i would have ignored it but you have that golden badge of approval and a group of followers who seem to just blindly agree with whatever you say because you're Goatboy.
I'm not going to waste time explaining something when you all seem to think you have it worked out, thing are never as simple as you might like to think.
Usually i can read a Goatboy post and see something in it that might have some logic, i don't generally agree but i can see his point however on this occassion you are talking out of your @rse.
Firstly i've a friend of the family who has a history of it, she's no teenager, she's 48, she started when she was 32 because her daughter was being abused by her husband, even when she left him after years she can't stop, she works and she doesn't sit around all day.
Of the people i know who have self harmed by cutting themselves, most have had very good reasons ranging from being beaten up by their partners to other stuff i'm just not going into.
As for the attention seeking, firstly they need attention, secondly they hide it which is why it's done in private, thirdly how many people have you seen walking around town who have obviously done it, they are the long sleeve brigade, this idea that they're looking for attention is garbage.
If this had been some newbie talking crap i would have ignored it but you have that golden badge of approval and a group of followers who seem to just blindly agree with whatever you say because you're Goatboy.
I'm not going to waste time explaining something when you all seem to think you have it worked out, thing are never as simple as you might like to think.
A lot of people see self harm as a form of attention seeking it seems. But what about the people who self harm and no one ever knows about it? This clearly isnt attention seeking, not even necessarily a cry for help, just a release for them when they feel there is no other way to release what they are feeling at that moment. These people can be someone you've known all your life, someone you think is perfectly happy with their life, but of course they can be just putting on a mask and you dont know the difference. These people are the ones Im more concerned about than the ones who attention seek, because at least the attention seekers are reaching out, but unfortunately most people will treat their attempt to communicate with apathy or worse still, disgust.
Ms NY wrote:
> Although, I'll never get rid of my little 'pain-journal'.. but it's
> highly embarassing to read over it again in the future and realise
> what a prat you were. Makes you cringe.
There are things I wrote and crap that I feel like that about nowadays.
I just think of what a total nonce I was back then and appreciate how I'm turning out in the present.
> Although, I'll never get rid of my little 'pain-journal'.. but it's
> highly embarassing to read over it again in the future and realise
> what a prat you were. Makes you cringe.
There are things I wrote and crap that I feel like that about nowadays.
I just think of what a total nonce I was back then and appreciate how I'm turning out in the present.
Goatboy wrote:
> Here's an alternative to your pitiful cries-for-attention:
> Wash your hair, open your curtains, take off that patchouli-stinking
> 3-sizes-too-big black wooly jumper, try smiling at your parents, get
> a job and stop scribbling in your journal-of-pain about how awful
> everything is.
That is the most inspiring thing! It's so cute. It's exactly what teenagers need to do to get out of that phase.
Although, I'll never get rid of my little 'pain-journal'.. but it's highly embarassing to read over it again in the future and realise what a prat you were. Makes you cringe.
> Here's an alternative to your pitiful cries-for-attention:
> Wash your hair, open your curtains, take off that patchouli-stinking
> 3-sizes-too-big black wooly jumper, try smiling at your parents, get
> a job and stop scribbling in your journal-of-pain about how awful
> everything is.
That is the most inspiring thing! It's so cute. It's exactly what teenagers need to do to get out of that phase.
Although, I'll never get rid of my little 'pain-journal'.. but it's highly embarassing to read over it again in the future and realise what a prat you were. Makes you cringe.
I’m just being defeatist about the comical possibilities, but they don’t spring out at me after my experience. Make some jokes about something funny, like the holocaust.
Oh wait, I read it wrong. I'm going to bed.
Why not what?
Why not?
My experience of self-harm, from a family member is that I don't understand it. Someone very close to me did it and I don't know why. She stopped and I was glad, but I will never know why she did it. It's not something to make light of.
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