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You know how Reddit is... one thing leads to another. Somehow a series of clicks lead me to a self harm pics sub. Whoa. I can handle a lot and feel pretty tough, but the few pics I saw were way too much to handle and I thought I was going to faint looking at them. I'm talking huge cuts, enormous amounts of blood, people talking about needing to call an ambulance after a bad episode.
Do you know anyone who has a problem like that? I get that there are usually deep psychological factors at play, but it's hard to wrap my mind around such intense and dangerous manifestations of problems, or the pleasure derived from cutting.
- i ended up in the depression sub a while back and ended up trying to talk some dude out of killing himself that night. never going there again!scarabin
- its even worst when it's off the internet and someone you know... =__=pango
- seems like lots of cutters in high school these days. Each of my kids know a fewGnash
- I read a "here are the pills I'm going to use to kill myself in two weeks" post from someone and it was their last post...mg33
- I knew a lot of teenage and college aged cutters, boulemic and anorexic girls. I was a gymnist. Highly competitive with stress + school.shellie
- A 20 year old. It makes me lightheaded to think of how someone can give up that young, even rejoicing in the decision.mg33
- I would have done it too but my mom was very involved and nosey. I feel like a lot of it is contageous. 1 or 2 disturbed girls teach the rest & they all copy.shellie
- And so many of these cutting posts, people end up in the emergency room. How do they pay for the services, and how are they not committed to psychiatric care?mg33
- But the Internet makes communities available and they can trade bad habits on a boost scale. Girls i knew that ate cotton balls dipped in sugar water.shellie
- *larger not boostshellie
- Serenity now... my daughter is about to turn two in January. I pray daily that her future is a positive one with good people and friends always around her.mg33
- Sugar water = enough energy not to pass out and cotton balls kept you feeling full for a long time. Peer pressure, i tried but couldn't hang. Was 12-13.shellie
- I cannot imagine the power of these forums on people who have dark thoughts to begin with.shellie
- And I'm not judging... I'm truly shocked by what I'm looking at and reading, but there are all these posts like "look what I did instead of cutting..."mg33
- And it's a simple doodle or drawing, or a photos of eggs and toast someone made. And I can't even imagine how much a simple act like that means to them inmg33
- In that moment. That's just so heavy to me.mg33
- As their alternative to harming themselves. My mind is kind of spinning taking this all in.mg33
- Makes me incredibly sad. We take so much shit for granted sometimes when life is good.mg33
- hugs man. hugs.... T_T
i'm in my 30s and i still know a few people who cuts.pango - And some of these people are young, living with parents. Can't begin to imagine the A-Z of it all. Drastic damage to themselves, hospital trips, stitches...mg33
- Can't imagine how that all plays out to family members, and how much it must feed into the desire.mg33
- make sure you be there for your kids when they're that age... :(pango
- Psychotic behaviori_was
- When you hate yourself that much it's hard to see the good in life.mugwart
- ^ what mugwart said. Tunnel vision when you're in a tailspin. I know this existed before the internet but....shellie
- I totally believe it's worse when they egg each other on in forums and it's so easy to access.shellie
- Exactly Shellie. There were people literally celebrating the severity of cuts or the amount of blood. It really freaked me out.mg33
- celebrating?
defug...
fucking idiots.pango