Self-Injury Support Group
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Why is it that when people find out that someone is an alcoholic, or a drug addict. People are supportive and try to understand how it is passable for this to happen to someone. But if they find out that some one is addicted to SI they freak out and judge that person.
When some one hears the two words "self injury" they seem to automatically think that the person that these two words are applying to is totally fucking nuts.
So my question is... Why does society feel that it is okay in some way to be addicted to anything else that WILL kill you, but not to injuring yourself???
When some one hears the two words "self injury" they seem to automatically think that the person that these two words are applying to is totally fucking nuts.
So my question is... Why does society feel that it is okay in some way to be addicted to anything else that WILL kill you, but not to injuring yourself???
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i know i ask my self that all the time. ppl are scared of me. they thing cos u hurt yourself u may hurt others. but it just makes u feel worse
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People still don't understand that cutting is the only way that a person knows how to deal. I got into an argument with my psych about this. The DSM IV does not even have a stand alone diagnosis for SI.
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Most people are completely ignorant to SI. They almost always feel it's a cry for attention, they just cant understand it. Which is so stupid cause it's just as addictive as smoking ciggeretts, and as hazardous as smoking crack, peopel should really take this form af addiction a little more seriously.
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it weird i know, i suppose its because these problems are such that you cant hide, but SI is private, no-one has to know. therefore it becomes our dirty little secret.
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I wonder the same thing
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I just don't understand how society can think this way! IThey are so confused!!!
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I don't think that people take it seriously as an "addiction" at all...like you say, they think its a cry for attention. In treatment it was drilled into our heads that self injury is a choice...DUH. That doesn't make it any less of an addiction. Now a month and a half out of the hospital and my urges to injure are different...I used to just injure when I was extremely anxious. Now I just have random urges to injure like today when nothing really bad happened but I knew that injuring would make me feel sooo good for just a little bit, even if I would regret it later.
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yh i no it is hard to get over
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I dont understand this either, its messed up :(
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