Warning..

Before you make that first cut, remember--
You will enjoy this.
You will find the blood and pain release addictive.
Even though you think you can make a few tiny cuts that aren't deep and will heal easily--
They will get deeper.
They will scar.
They will take sometimes months to heal.
And years for the scars to fade.
If you think you can limit the cutting to one area of your body, think again.
It will spread when you run out of skin.
Be prepared to withdraw from others and live in a constant state of shame.
Even if you are the most honest person ever to live--
You will find yourself lying to the people you love.
You will jerk back from your friends when they touch you as if their hands were dipped in poison.
You will be terrified that they will feel something under the cloth of your shirt or because it just plain hurts so much to be touched.
Be prepared to get so out of control you fear your next cut because you don't know how bad it will be.
Just wait for 10 cuts to turn into 100.
Be prepared for your entire life to revolve around thinking about cutting--
Cutting and covering up cutting.
And just wait till that first time you cut "too deep."
And you freak out because the blood won't stop...
And you are gasping...
And you feel yourself shaking all over.
You are having a panic attack and you are terrified but you can't tell anyone.
So you sit there alone...
Praying it will be okay--
Swearing you'll never let it go this far again...
But you will, and further.
Don't worry, you will learn how to take care of your cuts so that you can go deeper and deeper and avoid the ER.
And the better you get at treating your cuts,
The deeper they get.
You will lie to yourself and justify it when you find youself spending 20, 30, or 50 dollars every time you go the pharmacy.
You will feel the flutter of your heartbeat everytime you go to the counter to ring up your order.
Butterfly strips--
3 or 4 different kinds of dressings...
Betadine...
Antibiotic cream...
Medical tape...
Scar reducers...
You will tap your foot impatiently hoping the line will just move and no one will stare at you or wonder why you need all these things.
And at the same time secretly hope someone will notice--
Someone who is standing in line with an armful of the same supplies.
Someone who understands--
But of course that never happens.
Medical supplies won't be the only thing you spend all your money on.
Be prepared to buy a new wardrobe--
Longsleeve shirts in summer colors, bracelets, wristbands, boots, gloves...
The list goes on and on.
You will start looking at everyone in a different way.
Scanning their bodies for any signs of SI.
Just hoping that you might meet someone like you so you don't feel so terribly alone.
You wont even think about it,
As your eyes scan their wrists arms.
Hoping, just hoping they will be like you.
But they are not.
You will see their clean arms and feel terribly ashamed and alone.
You will start doing a lot of things alone.
You will always have to wash your laundry in private so no one sees the blood stains on your clothes and towels.
You will always be cleaning up the blood.
Scrubbing your bathroom floor.
Wiping the blood off your keyboard.
You won't be able to make it through a day without cutting.
Next thing you know you are in a public bathroom somewhere breaking open a scab with a sewing needle that you keep in your wallet for emergencies.
When you get really desperate,
Anything will be a cutting tool...
Scissors...a car key...a needle...a paperclip...even a pen.
Doesn't matter what it is if you need to cut bad enough you will find something.
Say goodbye to things you took for granted.
Like wearing shorts or sandals...pedicures...sleeveless tops.
A normal summer day at the beach or in a swimming pool will become a far off memory for you.
Get ready to itch.
Because you will itch and itch.
So much you will look like you have fleas or a skin disease.
You will become an expert on your body as you destroy it carefully.
You will dream about cutting.
You will dream about being exposed.
It will haunt you day and night and take over your life.
You will wish you never made that first cut because while you absolutely hate cutting--
At the same time you love it and can not live without it.

:/ shut up.

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Originally Posted by SEXYDEATH

Before you make that first cut, remember--
You will enjoy this.
You will find the blood and pain release addictive.
Even though you think you can make a few tiny cuts that aren't deep and will heal easily--
They will get deeper.
They will scar.
They will take sometimes months to heal.
And years for the scars to fade.
If you think you can limit the cutting to one area of your body, think again.
It will spread when you run out of skin.
Be prepared to withdraw from others and live in a constant state of shame.
Even if you are the most honest person ever to live--
You will find yourself lying to the people you love.
You will jerk back from your friends when they touch you as if their hands were dipped in poison.
You will be terrified that they will feel something under the cloth of your shirt or because it just plain hurts so much to be touched.
Be prepared to get so out of control you fear your next cut because you don't know how bad it will be.
Just wait for 10 cuts to turn into 100.
Be prepared for your entire life to revolve around thinking about cutting--
Cutting and covering up cutting.
And just wait till that first time you cut "too deep."
And you freak out because the blood won't stop...
And you are gasping...
And you feel yourself shaking all over.
You are having a panic attack and you are terrified but you can't tell anyone.
So you sit there alone...
Praying it will be okay--
Swearing you'll never let it go this far again...
But you will, and further.
Don't worry, you will learn how to take care of your cuts so that you can go deeper and deeper and avoid the ER.
And the better you get at treating your cuts,
The deeper they get.
You will lie to yourself and justify it when you find youself spending 20, 30, or 50 dollars every time you go the pharmacy.
You will feel the flutter of your heartbeat everytime you go to the counter to ring up your order.
Butterfly strips--
3 or 4 different kinds of dressings...
Betadine...
Antibiotic cream...
Medical tape...
Scar reducers...
You will tap your foot impatiently hoping the line will just move and no one will stare at you or wonder why you need all these things.
And at the same time secretly hope someone will notice--
Someone who is standing in line with an armful of the same supplies.
Someone who understands--
But of course that never happens.
Medical supplies won't be the only thing you spend all your money on.
Be prepared to buy a new wardrobe--
Longsleeve shirts in summer colors, bracelets, wristbands, boots, gloves...
The list goes on and on.
You will start looking at everyone in a different way.
Scanning their bodies for any signs of SI.
Just hoping that you might meet someone like you so you don't feel so terribly alone.
You wont even think about it,
As your eyes scan their wrists arms.
Hoping, just hoping they will be like you.
But they are not.
You will see their clean arms and feel terribly ashamed and alone.
You will start doing a lot of things alone.
You will always have to wash your laundry in private so no one sees the blood stains on your clothes and towels.
You will always be cleaning up the blood.
Scrubbing your bathroom floor.
Wiping the blood off your keyboard.
You won't be able to make it through a day without cutting.
Next thing you know you are in a public bathroom somewhere breaking open a scab with a sewing needle that you keep in your wallet for emergencies.
When you get really desperate,
Anything will be a cutting tool...
Scissors...a car key...a needle...a paperclip...even a pen.
Doesn't matter what it is if you need to cut bad enough you will find something.
Say goodbye to things you took for granted.
Like wearing shorts or sandals...pedicures...sleeveless tops.
A normal summer day at the beach or in a swimming pool will become a far off memory for you.
Get ready to itch.
Because you will itch and itch.
So much you will look like you have fleas or a skin disease.
You will become an expert on your body as you destroy it carefully.
You will dream about cutting.
You will dream about being exposed.
It will haunt you day and night and take over your life.
You will wish you never made that first cut because while you absolutely hate cutting--
At the same time you love it and can not live without it.

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k

Written by an emo :)

Fgs stfu :)

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Originally Posted by Revix,

k

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LMAO that made me laugh

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Originally Posted by Code

:/ shut up.

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Have you ever noticed that whenever you sit behind a keyboard, some idiot starts typing? ;o

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Originally Posted by Undes1rable

Written by an emo

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Nooo... Lol. Not emo.

I really don't appreaciate being labeled either. :/
I mean, you don't see me labeling you as 'stupid', do you?

It's not really nice to label. :)

You know, it would really work to people's advantage to stop being ignorant. It's just a suggestion. :]

Yeah, and they make rubbishy posts on internet forums that would only be any use to some loser who cuts themselves up.

-Will

What relevance does this have?

To what? :p

-Will

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Originally Posted by Code

To what? :p

-Will

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The whole scenario of slitting your wrists, I don't want to know about it :) and certainly don't want to waste time reading it, I've heard it all before :rolleyes:

Yeha exactly... The only people who do it are kids who think they'll get a nice slice of the emo bandwagon pie and have walls plastered with MCR posters.

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Originally Posted by Code

Yeha exactly... The only people who do it are kids who think they'll get a nice slice of the emo bandwagon pie and have walls plastered with MCR posters.

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Well, it's nice you have an idea what you're talking about now, yet you're still the stereotypical labeler. :/
Are you always this ignorant, or are you making a special effort today?

The actual goal for my post was to be a warning. That is why I cleverly titled it 'Warning..'. The warning was aimed at individuals who believe the answer to their problems lies within self mutilation. Critisizing these individuals isn't really helping the cause.

I know you have an opinions on this subject, but it really isn't helping that you post biases about people when you really don't have a clue of the audience you are critisizing. People who do this don't exactly have to be 'emo'. They can be anyone of whatever background. They don't have to listen to MCR all day or have a clue what 'emo' is labeling. To these individuals, self mutilation is an escape from reality. An escape far too dangerous for anyone.

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Originally Posted by Code

have walls plastered with MCR posters.

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I like MCR but i dont do that... wouldnt dream of it + i arent emo :s

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Originally Posted by b7tashy

I like MCR but i dont do that... wouldnt dream of it + i arent emo :s

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Exactly, lol.

Oh kay , :s

Very well wrote. My mum works in a womens phychiatric community house, if I remember I'll show her this when she's home.

Some people are full of ignorance, ignore them. I know a girl who goes to church, dresses in normal girls clothes and yet she was cutting her wrists recently. She kept a blade in her purse. I'm not sure if she still does it, I know she got help from a youth worker but I dont like to push her for information.

Okay. But there's a guy who does this in my year and he just does it (and I quote) because "it makes me look emo".

Escape from reality? Pfft.

-Will

I read the first four lines of that.

Those are proven facts, don't let these emos tell you off, they like the pain and don't want to stop.

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Originally Posted by Code

:/ shut up.

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What he said ^

Erm dude, i found that quite disturbing and offensive because my cousin has a cutting problem due to problems she has in life.

Cutting yourself isnt something that only emo's do as some people like to think..
It can happen to anyone anyway and incase you want an equivalent to :
Originally Posted by Code
Yeha exactly... The only people who do it are kids who think they'll get a nice slice of the emo bandwagon pie and have walls plastered with MCR posters.

Well heres one:

My best friend cut herself and in noway is she a emo.. she is a townie with G unit posters on her wall.. Theres a nice of slice of the "emo bandwagon" for you!

Exactly esmii, my cousin has started doing it due to problems in life and severe depression, she isnt an emo at all, she is anything but an emo to be honest, she's a really friendly funny person but is just having a rough time at the mo. </3

http://tinypic.com/hwkcox.jpghttp://tinypic.com/hwkcua.jpg

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Originally Posted by eamonns

http://tinypic.com/hwkcox.jpghttp://tinypic.com/hwkcua.jpg

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Haha, yeah die '_'”.

That guy on the right is actually really hot @_@; ;P and eamonns that first pic isnt really funny cause cutting can be a very serious problem. :/

I know people who cut themselves who are not emos.

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Originally Posted by Code

:/ shut up.

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no , you >3
hes only trying to help us
+rep

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Originally Posted by Code

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Stfu :)

Some of that info was really interesting and true.