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Startling!!!

Posted by 64Bowtie on January 30, 2004, at 12:50:26

I am reading along and clicking page to page at a site recommended by [Dinah] called selfharm.net, and it hits me. For OCD folks, harming the self seems very different and far removed from suicide. Its portrayed as almost a finer point of logic. Maybe like they deserve to be hurt, but they aren't angry enough to off themselves, perhaps?. Hmmm...

Among chemical abusers, they deny a connection to death and using, even though they spend alot of time talking about the dangers of OD'ing. Sort of a brain disconnect. At the selfharm.net site, I read what I intuit as a sort of resignation to this albeit totally undesireable practice of self harm.

I discovered I hadn't thought this through. In the seventies, While working at a suicide prevention hotline, I adopted the motto that, "Suicide is never and option!" I feel today as if this motto closed MY mind to other useful information.

Thanx [Babble] and (((Dinah))) for this wake-up call.

Rod



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