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Thursday, October 26, 2006
I promised you that I stopped cutting but I lied
Anonymous 10:47:34 PM
11 comments:
Anonymous
said...
i stopped completely by myself almost 4 months ago and it's so hard not to go back. i want to cut almost every day.
trust me, you can do it. you can stop. you just have to want to.
I'm sure there are different reasons for it, but one of the most common articulations of the reasons behind cutting is to distract from one's emotional pain in favor of more controllable physical pain.
Seems quite sad to me... though sometimes people also do it for attention. Which is dumb.
Oh man, wanting attention is SO horrible. Of course everyone wants to like themselves and be liked by others. When people hurt themselves, whether through cutting or anorexia or substance abuse, it is a cry for attention. That doesn't make it dumb though, it just means they need help.
wanting attention is pretty much natural , The excuse that cutting is to distract you from emotional pain is though. That just so cutters can feel sorry for themselves.
as a former cutter, i'd like to say that it's not about the attention, and while the matching the pain thing can be part of it, that's by no means the only reason or even the main one in a lot of cases. so please stop stereotyping and judging things you don't understand.
But still, self-mutilation can and typically is an indication of something far more serious. I've been there, and it wasn't for attention. I hid it then and still hide that part of my past today. For me it was based in an obsessive desire for perfection and the rage that came over me when I failed. That's by no means "standard" or "normal," merely because there is no standard or normal. But it's an example.
11 comments:
i stopped completely by myself almost 4 months ago and it's so hard not to go back. i want to cut almost every day.
trust me, you can do it. you can stop. you just have to want to.
I really dont understand the motivation behind cutting.
I'm sure there are different reasons for it, but one of the most common articulations of the reasons behind cutting is to distract from one's emotional pain in favor of more controllable physical pain.
Seems quite sad to me... though sometimes people also do it for attention. Which is dumb.
yea add physical pain to emotional thats great, I think its for attention.
Oh man, wanting attention is SO horrible. Of course everyone wants to like themselves and be liked by others. When people hurt themselves, whether through cutting or anorexia or substance abuse, it is a cry for attention. That doesn't make it dumb though, it just means they need help.
wanting attention is pretty much natural , The excuse that cutting is to distract you from emotional pain is though. That just so cutters can feel sorry for themselves.
as a former cutter, i'd like to say that it's not about the attention, and while the matching the pain thing can be part of it, that's by no means the only reason or even the main one in a lot of cases. so please stop stereotyping and judging things you don't understand.
^
Please stop trying to make cutting anything more than self-mutilation?
Because uh... that's what it is.
But still, self-mutilation can and typically is an indication of something far more serious. I've been there, and it wasn't for attention. I hid it then and still hide that part of my past today. For me it was based in an obsessive desire for perfection and the rage that came over me when I failed. That's by no means "standard" or "normal," merely because there is no standard or normal. But it's an example.
^ me too
trust me, it's not for the attention
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