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Re: I'm sure I'll be black-listed for this one but.... » tina

Posted by Pamela Lynn on December 3, 2001, at 16:09:31

In reply to I'm sure I'll be black-listed for this one but...., posted by tina on November 30, 2001, at 22:28:30

I have "Borderline Personality Disorder"...hence, I used to cut myself up REAL badly as an older teen (I am 30 now). My opinion is that it is a cry for help, a cry out that some sort of cognitive therapy is needed. I cut myself 'alittle too deeply' one time, and I almost lost my life! Then I took on head banging...used to put holes into the walls, I would bang so darn hard! I got a concussion once from the head banging...then I got into therapy. I did my homework and called around, made sure I got a therapist who worked with cognitive therapy.

I just want to say, ESPECIALLY for the younger posters on this board, that cutting is SERIOUS stuff, as is head banging. I don't pass judgement on ANYONE, but....self-mutilation/destruction is just not productive. There are MANY other ways to release the pain, PLEASE, try alternative routes....Anyone in enough pain to cut/hurt themselves should be in some sort of therapy/or on meds. There ARE some good, caring people out there that can help..many hotlines you could call too, before 'cutting'...I am NOT trying to be insensitive, just realistic. I lived the cutting/hurting myself life. It not only has left me with horrible/ugly scars on my body, but has hurt my family and my friends, as well over the time that I was doing the cutting/head banging.

PLEASE, seek help for the cutting. It is not a natural thing to do...just like suicide isn't an answer to pain, to me, in my opinion, neither is cutting/hurting yourself an answer to the pain you are already in.

Thanks for listening to my two cents.

P.L.

> is cutting really that bad. I mean, i've been doing it since I was 16 or so and I'm 32 now. It helps. It makes me feel better when nothing else will. No amount of pills can help the way cutting can. So, I ask you, why is it looked upon as an "illness"? Why is it "sick" to do it??
>
> its' late. I'm wandering into that strange pre-sleep thinking too much mode as always.........hence my chronic insomnia.


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