| Re: Harmful Attention Seeking: Cutting
To be quite honest, I don't see the point.
Cutting because your depressed and cutting simply for attention are pretty much one in the same. If you're depressed and you're cutting yourself, you either really suck at killing yourself or you're trying to send out some kind of message. If you're cutting to be "cool", not only are you stupid--in my own opinion--but you're still seeking attention. Either way, you're either trying to gain something out of it.
We don't give people hi-fives for being jack asses to the general public, we don't pat crack heads on the back for stayin' up on their habits; so why should a cutter get that type of recognition? I've known a couple/few cutters and they've all cut themselves, not to be cool, not to show off; but because they thought it would "fix" their problems. It's no better than doin' it to be cool, but doin' it for the latter reason is plain absurd.
"Yeah, I stab people to be cool," sounds about the same as, "Yeah, I cut myself to fit in," to me. |