Self-Injury Support Group
Whether you or someone you know or love struggles with self-injury, this is the community to discuss your experience, find support, meet others going through the same, and get advice on how to stop. Working together, we can help find alternative coping skills to reduce the urge to self-harm.
Hello everybody...my name is Megan and although I've been part of this support gorup for awhile, I have yet to post anything on the boards. I'm anorexic, which I guess is another part of me trying to numb myself. So for my first discussion, I though I'd bring up the stereotype about cutters that ticks me off the most-that we're all suicidal. Now, just because I cope by cutting and starving doesn't mean that I wanna die. In fact, living is my most important goal right now. And it pisses me off how people also assume all cutters are punk or emo. I'm a theater girl, and my style is girly and preppy, not an ounce of punk in there. Can anybody relte to these judgments peple make?
anyway. it took me a while to actually post on topics in here too. i'm here if you ever need to talk though, just send me a message : )
i was a cutter for a while and when a fiend found out i cant seem to get it across to her that i wasnt suicidal i mean yea i cut but wasnt trying to die...and i guess i do have the apperance of what most would consider goth but that doesnt mean anything and for me sometimes when ppl say things about emos or somein it hurts my feelings bad..
but i hate how people call me emo. JUST because i cut. i hate it.
and yet somebody else that dresses just likes me gets the name of preppy cuz they dont cut.
and they make fun of the cuts but they dont even know whats behind them
no one knows i cut, but people call me emo for some reason, even though im not, which makes my paranoia alot worse. i think its stupid.
so just because (going with the really stereotypical emo) someone wears skinny jeans, or eyeliner, or dyes their hair black, or a combination, that means they cut? and just because someone cuts, it means they are expected to dress like that, act like that, and so on.
i've known cutters who arent depressed at all, and suicidal people that would never dream of cutting themselves. its just stupid stereotypes that make me SO ANGRY >:(
There are so many people at my school who will try to make fun of somebody by calling them emo or people think its funny to sit there when they are mad and act like they are cutting themselves and someone will tell them that they should be cutting the other way! It pisses me off soo much when people do that a;lkdmfo;iae!!!!!!!
trust me you are not alone and if you want to talk message me
"I don't cut to kill"
Hard things for nurses to understand....