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Cutting...
Its an epidemic. It really is. I can't say how many people have done or even thought of self multilating, but I'm guessing at least one of your friends has done it. Maybe you're the friend.
In a way, I've delved into it.
It's been speculated that children cut (that is the type of multilation I'm focusing on) for at least two reasons.
A: its a release. For some reason, that person feels the need to escape by hurting them selfs. It isn't a new thing. The Christian theology had a pratice called scorging in which the person whiped themselves as a form of pentence. It's still mutilation. Both forms were supposed to ahve released the person of their feelings in some form.
B: it's cool. I'm scared to fathom the person who is so desperate for attention, for compainionship they are willing to injure themselves, risk hospitalization, and death for that small amount of acceptance.
Both are bad. It just isn't correct to mutilate oneself. If you, reader, feel you need to cut yourself, stop. Call someone. Talk to someone.
If you are type A, trust me, you can make it through. I know people whose lives are worse then any horror movie script. I've heard stories that make me shudder, and cry. But You can make it. Want evidence? Read 'A Child Called It'
Or think of this, just because your life is dysfunctional doesn't mean you ahve to end up that way. If your dad hits you, many people can empasize, myself included. Just remember it doesn't mean you'll do it too. It doesn't mean things won't change. You just have to stay it through.
If you're type B, I fear even more for you. Never, ever, do something just because it's the 'in' thing in soceity. In the days of the Roman empire the 'in' thing was oppression of outsiders, pillaging of lands and raping of women. You wouldn't go out and try rape somebody because it's the 'thing to do'. It's just wrong. So is cutting oneself to be accepted and cool. So, please, try to become accepted by just being you. It works. Sometimes it's hard. Yeah, occasionaly you will be lonely lack of company. It happens to everyone at one point or another. It's a part of life. Do really want scars on your arm to remind you when your 40 how desperate you were for attention when you figured out you made it through anyways? Just be you. In time, you'll make it.
Now, I'm sure want my personal story. Mine is a bit different. I first must admit I seem to have a rather morbid fascination with this new 'disease'. I haven't the slights clue why. If you were to tell me how I am now when I was in 6th grade, I'd probably cringe. I've never been quite the sterotypical person anyways. I've seen scars. I've taken pictures of them. I've watched one person do the act. In retrospect, I'm perhaps a B type. However, The scars I carry are burn makes, on my left arm, ventral side. I still remember the extreme fear and paranoia I felt when my mom said she may take me to see a psychiatrist when she saw them. This act happened during a time I began loosing weight. I actually did not do this to myself but rather, let someone do it to me. It happened with my will, not against it. To think back on it now, I can't imagine what didn't prompt me to say stop after the first, or perhaps even more, what promted me to say go ahead twice more. In either way, it gave me insight into the epidemic. It has a lesson to be learned within it.
If you do these things, stop and think of what impact it will have on your future. Know that it can have very severe consequences. If your friend tells you nothing bad happened to them, they're just luckly.
If you're lonely, talk to someone.
If you want get away, do just that. Walk way. Run if you must.
Dad's hitting you, talk to someone you trust. Maybe, they've got something simialr in their life. Maybe, they'll let you stay with them.
Think everyone hates you? You'd be wrong. You haven't met every person in the world and so not everyone hates you. There is billions of thousands of pople out there, go meet 'em. Your're bound to meet one genuine person out there.
Consider faith as an option too. I'm not trying to piss atheists and others off, I'm just saying, faith has it's strange ways. Sometimes talking to a person of faith helps enough.
Just know that times will be hard. That is a law of life. But the ablilty of humankind to push through, and strive, or simply live is the testament to the power and majesty that humankind really is.
Its an epidemic. It really is. I can't say how many people have done or even thought of self multilating, but I'm guessing at least one of your friends has done it. Maybe you're the friend.
In a way, I've delved into it.
It's been speculated that children cut (that is the type of multilation I'm focusing on) for at least two reasons.
A: its a release. For some reason, that person feels the need to escape by hurting them selfs. It isn't a new thing. The Christian theology had a pratice called scorging in which the person whiped themselves as a form of pentence. It's still mutilation. Both forms were supposed to ahve released the person of their feelings in some form.
B: it's cool. I'm scared to fathom the person who is so desperate for attention, for compainionship they are willing to injure themselves, risk hospitalization, and death for that small amount of acceptance.
Both are bad. It just isn't correct to mutilate oneself. If you, reader, feel you need to cut yourself, stop. Call someone. Talk to someone.
If you are type A, trust me, you can make it through. I know people whose lives are worse then any horror movie script. I've heard stories that make me shudder, and cry. But You can make it. Want evidence? Read 'A Child Called It'
Or think of this, just because your life is dysfunctional doesn't mean you ahve to end up that way. If your dad hits you, many people can empasize, myself included. Just remember it doesn't mean you'll do it too. It doesn't mean things won't change. You just have to stay it through.
If you're type B, I fear even more for you. Never, ever, do something just because it's the 'in' thing in soceity. In the days of the Roman empire the 'in' thing was oppression of outsiders, pillaging of lands and raping of women. You wouldn't go out and try rape somebody because it's the 'thing to do'. It's just wrong. So is cutting oneself to be accepted and cool. So, please, try to become accepted by just being you. It works. Sometimes it's hard. Yeah, occasionaly you will be lonely lack of company. It happens to everyone at one point or another. It's a part of life. Do really want scars on your arm to remind you when your 40 how desperate you were for attention when you figured out you made it through anyways? Just be you. In time, you'll make it.
Now, I'm sure want my personal story. Mine is a bit different. I first must admit I seem to have a rather morbid fascination with this new 'disease'. I haven't the slights clue why. If you were to tell me how I am now when I was in 6th grade, I'd probably cringe. I've never been quite the sterotypical person anyways. I've seen scars. I've taken pictures of them. I've watched one person do the act. In retrospect, I'm perhaps a B type. However, The scars I carry are burn makes, on my left arm, ventral side. I still remember the extreme fear and paranoia I felt when my mom said she may take me to see a psychiatrist when she saw them. This act happened during a time I began loosing weight. I actually did not do this to myself but rather, let someone do it to me. It happened with my will, not against it. To think back on it now, I can't imagine what didn't prompt me to say stop after the first, or perhaps even more, what promted me to say go ahead twice more. In either way, it gave me insight into the epidemic. It has a lesson to be learned within it.
If you do these things, stop and think of what impact it will have on your future. Know that it can have very severe consequences. If your friend tells you nothing bad happened to them, they're just luckly.
If you're lonely, talk to someone.
If you want get away, do just that. Walk way. Run if you must.
Dad's hitting you, talk to someone you trust. Maybe, they've got something simialr in their life. Maybe, they'll let you stay with them.
Think everyone hates you? You'd be wrong. You haven't met every person in the world and so not everyone hates you. There is billions of thousands of pople out there, go meet 'em. Your're bound to meet one genuine person out there.
Consider faith as an option too. I'm not trying to piss atheists and others off, I'm just saying, faith has it's strange ways. Sometimes talking to a person of faith helps enough.
Just know that times will be hard. That is a law of life. But the ablilty of humankind to push through, and strive, or simply live is the testament to the power and majesty that humankind really is.