Slitting Wrists

No i got bullied FOR having selfharm, i have some close friends who understand my selfharm and dont judge me at all by it, And flying, people who upset me means they win because things are going exactly how they want it. And jack, thats true, some people who begin and think 'Oh i wont get addicted', 2 - 3 years later, they have scars all over their bodies, not being able to last probably a day without cutting. Some people dont AIM to die, some people cut in different places, depends on what they want, for example: Blood or pain possibly both. And like ive said probably a million times before, if i wanted attetion, id find a less dangerous way and fun way in doing so.

I find even the thought of slitting my wrists horrible. I've got no reason to do it anyway and I doubt even if I do get extremely stressed I won't relieve it by cutting my wrists...

-shrug-

When I used to do it I did it with razors.

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Originally Posted by Zenzi

The kids below really have to work for their lives. Do you see them collapsing on the floor, taking a knife and hacking at their hands? I don't..

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They can't afford knives. They're too poor.

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Originally Posted by Glove.

They can't afford knives. They're too poor.

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Thats just mean "/

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Originally Posted by Jack.

Thats just mean "/

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Yeah but it's true.

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Originally Posted by Glove.

Yeah but it's true.

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S'pose.

You can't say that Africans have it hard and don't cut their wrists when it's pretty impossible for them to do if they own a mud hut and a bucket.

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Originally Posted by Glove.

They can't afford knives. They're too poor.

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There are knives in places like Africa etc.. How too they get wood? Headbutting it.. NO they use machette's and knives and other sharp objects.

Ooh great someone anonymously bad repped me for saying it. Stop being so politically correct all the time and face up to harsh reality. Idiots.

*slits wrists* I need attention llosls I'm depressed hehehz +*+*+*+*

Others have valid reasons though, don't they Jack? Me thinks you know what i mean?

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Originally Posted by JackHb

Hmm i don't think that is quite right, not everyone who slits themselves do it for the attention or for pathetic reasons.
Sometimes it is uncontrolable.

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Originally Posted by Barkseh

BEFORE I POST, I HAVE NEVER DONE IT AND NEVER WILL.

I see people in my school cutting themselfs with pencil sharpner blades.

I dont have anything against anyone who does it.. But i don't know why anyone would want to do it.. if anyone could explain that ;p?

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Never seen anyone slit there wrists and I dont want to. No one at skool does because they know theyd be talked about a lot. I still dont see why people do it. If youre depressed I dont see how hurting yourself makes you feel better because then you have a physical wound.
Sorry I dont understand it but I havent been that annoyed with myself to cut myself, not even when my brother died.

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Originally Posted by Glove.

They can't afford knives. They're too poor.

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haha. That made me laugh.

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Originally Posted by Zenzi

I can't stand people that slit their wrists. No time for them.

Immature, Selfish, babyish, simple minded children.

"omg i got shouted at at school today. I'll go scratch half a milimetre of skin of my wrist and see how much of peoples time i can waste and how much attention i can get"

If you're going to kill yourself, hurry up and do it. Don't spend time whinging and moaning. There are plenty of other children out there that would die for what some stupid attention seekers have.

My advice: You wanna be cool? Follow the road instead of crossing it.

Also, you rarely die from slitting your wrists anyway. It's like 1 in 60. I would suggest using maybe cyanide?

The kids below really have to work for their lives. Do you see them collapsing on the floor, taking a knife and hacking at their hands? I don't..

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Thanks -.-

People who do that, I think they are ******ed (not trying to offend anyone). Honestly they are. Like who would do that to themselves? Are they showing off that they're "emo" or something? Or are they doing that because they're sad or bullied? =\ Well slitting your wrist isn't the solution people!

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Originally Posted by Door

Never seen anyone slit there wrists and I dont want to. No one at skool does because they know theyd be talked about a lot. I still dont see why people do it. If youre depressed I dont see how hurting yourself makes you feel better because then you have a physical wound.
Sorry I dont understand it but I havent been that annoyed with myself to cut myself, not even when my brother died.

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Maybe you should all take a look at this site if you dont understand a thing about selfharm. http://www.recoveryourlife.com/Self_...s/default.aspx

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Originally Posted by DarkSarah

Maybe you should all take a look at this site if you dont understand a thing about selfharm. http://www.recoveryourlife.com/Self_...s/default.aspx

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Looked at it for 15 mins. I understand what happens etc, just not why people do it. I know it says why people do it but I cant get into the frame of mind that someone would endanger their life to seek attention.
I know its what people do, eg. going at 130mph on a main road to show off then killing yourself and 2 other people.

I'm a SI. I cut myself, I have tried elastic bands, icecubes, writing, talking, so many things. I have two therapists and a psyciatrist, one therapist seems to be working, I suggest that.
I hate it how people actually do it in school and then show off about it! It's just wrong! It isn't cool and it never should be. I hate it when people don't understand.
I have some issues, I have lupus and a lot of family problems, I will never change because this is how I am, people don't really understand. SI doens't mean the person is suicidal- it means quite the opposite. I however was suicidal and tried to kill myself 26 times from the end of year 8 to the start of year 9.


EDIT:
http://www.lifeSIGNS.org.uk - amazing site and forum.

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Originally Posted by Door

Looked at it for 15 mins. I understand what happens etc, just not why people do it. I know it says why people do it but I cant get into the frame of mind that someone would endanger their life to seek attention.
I know its what people do, eg. going at 130mph on a main road to show off then killing yourself and 2 other people.

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Like the page said, people who SI do the complete opposite of attetion seeking. I cant get into my mind either on what i do to myself, or what my friends with SI do to themselfs, but i have too.
Theirs many reasons why people abuse their bodies ie:
- Too be punished
- Too release their feelings on themselfs because they are responsable
- Its addictive
- They'd rather focus on physical pain than mental/emotional pain...
- Someones upset you (family members, close friends)
- You want to see blood/pain..
Theirs loads of reasons why.

Any addiction can be overcome, and any problem can be blocked.

Uh huh, some addictions cant, and go to far.

No, no matter how far an addiction goes, you can always stop it. Could well be difficult, but it's always possible.

Uh huh,ok.

There we go, final proof that you are too stupid/arrogant to take in the truth. You've only just entered your teenage years, and as such you're unwilling to believe anything that differs from your normal train of thought. You quote the same thing over and over ("I'm not an attention seeker, you need to learn more about self harm") in the vain hope that those more intelligent and more knowledgable than yourself will simply give up. If you stick to your own thoughts and don't let anyone tell you the real side of things, you will never be able to get over any problems. For your own sake, stop being a brat.

Poo Poo. I began selfharm when i was 9, get that in your head. And also get in your head i was ending the pathetic arguement you began :l

I didn't say anything about what age you were when you began to self harm, I simply stated the mindset of a typical 13/14 year old.

Okay whatever 'flying' now go fly into the road like a good little bird.

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Originally Posted by Lozzoling

I mean how the hell do you slit wrists? Kitchen knifes? School scissors?

I've just been thinking about it alot recently.

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Just thinking about it is just euhh if you know what i mean. some girls do it from my year (year8), in the form room... and teachers and dinnerladies frequently walk past. they bring in pen knifes. nd write words with their blood on their arms. but it is just attention seeking. i know that none of them are that unhappy, they got loadsa m8s and good families.

I couldn't do it to myself, afflict pain on myself, i would never do something like that to seek attention. u get scars aswell. if i was really unhappy i would seek adivce online or use something like a stress ball.

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Originally Posted by Polly-alyssa

or use something like a stress ball.

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Its hardly the same.

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Originally Posted by Playgirl

Its hardly the same.

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Get one of those things Michele [Learning Mentors] getting where you can cut it instead of yourself xD

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Originally Posted by DarkSarah

Poo Poo. I began selfharm when i was 9, get that in your head. And also get in your head i was ending the pathetic arguement you began :l

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I might be wrong, but what can be so depressing for someone at the age of nine?

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Originally Posted by j0rd

I might be wrong, but what can be so depressing for someone at the age of nine?

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a parent dying?
a brother/sister dying?
Sexually abused?
Abused?

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Originally Posted by Mxn

a parent dying?
a brother/sister dying?
Sexually abused?
Abused?

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yeah but who knew about slitting their wrists when they were 9 and actually had the nerve to do it?

im against it a little bit.
people who want to be labelled im against.
alot are perfectly healthy people and have nothing wrong with them, yet they cause themself damage whilst theres people in the world who have no legs, have cancer, have a limit to their life etc. and healthy people are doing that to themselves? i find it selfish

I don't know. Plenty of 9 year olds can be exposed to things like that. It depends on the enviroment that they're raised in, see? I first knew about it at the age of 10. But had the nerve to do it? That's hard. Maybe they heard that people do it to relieve stress? Or maybe they just heard that it's a way to get their mind off things? Really, all a 9 year old would need was something sharp and something to influence it.
But it must be sad to be brought to selfharming at the age of 9..:(

When i mean selfharming, i mean banging my heads againts wall, and punching myself/kicking myself, and pushing myself into doors... I didnt begin cutting at 9, i began cutting at 10. And plus my dad kinda triggered it even more, and before that, i dont know what triggered it i just.. did it i guess. :S

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Originally Posted by Aquae

im against it a little bit.
people who want to be labelled im against.
alot are perfectly healthy people and have nothing wrong with them, yet they cause themself damage whilst theres people in the world who have no legs, have cancer, have a limit to their life etc. and healthy people are doing that to themselves? i find it selfish

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why do people always bring that up? "theres people with no money or no legs" etc. just because it looks like they have it bad, if you are perfectly healthy it doesn't mean your life is perfect. you could still get very badly emotionally/verbally abused.

When I was in York, my mates told me some people in their school use spoons o.o...

A what!? A spoon? Okay then.. confused. :)

You can sharpen spoons quite easily, all you need is a rough surface (a brick wall would work, so in a school it would be easy to sharpen a spoon). About the "people in other countries have it worse than you" arguments, in the defense of Westerners we don't experience that, and don't actually know how to acknowledge the difficulties that others go through. There's also the case of stress which is much more common in Western culture than anywhere else in the world, but nonetheless self harm is not going to help anyone, it's simply an illusion to cover the fact that people don't know how to handle their problems.