What are your personal views on Self-Mutilation?
9 Answers to "What are your personal views on Self-Mutilation?"
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It's done for many reasons but it's generally an OCD thing that starts when we get that rush of endorphins. I started because of dissociative episodes but after a few times I realized it helped when I was panicking. It DOES give you a rush and it distracts you from other pain. And for some people it gives them the outward symptom that they can use for attention, which is absolutely understandable as well. With me, it's not about saying, "LOOK AT ME EVERYONE!" as much as it was a desperation for help coupled with a hard time asking outright for help. Sometimes the cries go unheard anyway. In my case I hid my cuts (most are on my abdomen) from everyone but my therapist and psychiatrist, but they were just the right people to know because they had the tools right there to help me. I'm thankful I sought attention, know what I mean?
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People who do it need help cuz it's whacked.
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I think it's sad and the person doing it need to learn healthy ways to cope
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But your picture...!
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sick ppl that need help - and need to be put away for their safety - and dont give me that BS about "its my body crap" because it affects a lot of ppl.
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When they locked me away, I actually got worse...
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It's lack of introspection. We live in a superficial culture where metacognition is rare. Anyone with metacognition realises sooner or later that they are not their thoughts and it makes no more sense to listen to your thoughts when they advise stupidity than it does to listen to a person advising stupidity.
So the thought process is "I'm a fat ugly *****, I need to cut myself" where it should be "Why did I just think that? And in any case, even assuming that it's true does it matter that I'm a fat ugly *****? Am I even fat. I mean objectively I weigh 100lbs I can't really be that fat so my thoughts are wrong. Why are my thoughts wrong? Why the **** am I listening to these thoughts if they're ob jectively wrong? Am I even ugly? What do other people say? They say no, so one of us is wrong, who is more likely to be wrong here? Me with my deficient thoughts or them? Does it matter that I'm ugly? In the grand scheme of things, am I just my looks? Is there nothing else? Are my looks my defining feature or do I have an intellect, is there more to the human experience than looking in the mirror and being happy?" Like (1)
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It apparently doesn't help--what's the point, really? I'd see it as a sign of needing professional help. Now there's the new emo craze that has young people doing it 'cause they're bored and think it's somehow cool--those people are just plain whacked.
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No. it's not a fashion-statement, or a phase. Noone in my day-to-day life has any idea. And I have been doing this 18 years. Also I am not "EMO"
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Didn't say you were--it is a symptom of a real illness in most cases---just with some young people today it is a fad--like 'ana'--attention seeking clubs.
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Why? Why in the hell would you cause pain to your-self? I just don't get that part.
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Physical Pain is a great distraction from Emotional Pain
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Distraction is the key word in that sentence. The emotinoal pain will never go away and hurting your self is a silly band-aid solution.
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depends what you see as mutilation?...some think tattoos are mutilation..while others think that cutting yourself is classed as it...i mean what are the definitions??
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self-inflicted cuts, burns, banging your head on hard surfaces, ripping your hair out
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Best Answer (Chosen by Voting):
Posted by maddogtel Feb 12th, 2013 at 8:25AM
Nothing at all, I would not get cut up about it
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