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What is up with kids "cutting"
I am hearing and seeing more of this crazy ass fad "cutting". I guess it's cool to cut yourself on the arms to make some kind of point.
I guess my idea of self mutilation was sports or joining the Army but cutting? http://eqi.org/cutting1.htm |
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Its insane.. at least noone I know does it...
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The "look at me" phase has officially run out of ideas.
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Cutting has a noble history. Look at Opus Dei. The cilice and the whip(discipline) they use are versions of cutting. Inflicting pain on the body purifies the soul.
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Michael Biehn did it in "The Abyss"...
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Their was an ok girl back in highschool that was hitting on me. It was cool untill she started to show me where she cut herself, wow I got out of their fast!
Back in high school the kids who did that were all girls, don't remember hearing of a guy. They all had serious emotional problems, too. Its not a healthy thing, its a symptom of serious problems.
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yeah, i think its so screwed up. most of the kidas are really messed up who do it.
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I'd like to know the roots of cutting in evolutionary psychology. It seems to be pretty deeply rooted in our minds since it occurs in so many cultures.
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They are just wanna-bes screaming for attention. Goth kids have been doing it for many years.
Something about mommy and daddy not hugging them enough when they were younger. They think cutting themselves, hiding it and then showing it to select people will make the people they show it to feel sorry for them and give them more attention. |
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From a former...
It's not all about attention guys. When I was back in high school, a lot of stress, girlfriends, etc. I got overwhelmed. I tried it one time with a very sharp razor blade in a non noticeable area. It's not so much the attention, but more so the feeling after you've done it. Any time the body feels pain, it releases endorphins to deal with said pain. I actually liked it. I started to do it more frequently, and no one ever found out. Only the smallest cut was needed to trigger this reaction. People who cut themselves, even if they aren't large cuts, use the body's reaction to their "advantage" to help with stress, depression, or simply as an escape.
Luckily for me, I stopped worrying and stressing so much. I focused on what I had and what I could do. I looked towards the future and not the mistakes of the past. Then I finally realized how foolish it was to harm the body God gave me, especially when I was blessed with good health. I decided to stop this once and for all, on a summer afternoon after my Senior year in high school. There was no need to harm the body God gave mem, when all I needed to do was put things in perspective. It's not all about attention. In a lot of cases it is, especially the people who make an expose' out of it. For those people it's a cry for attention or help. But there are many others (even a manager of Stop and Shop I worked at, a 120K salaried professional) who partake in this behavior in private. It's ignorant to say that it's all about attention.
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I used to do that sorta thing, but I thought it was funny. Anytimes someone had a sharp object and wanted to know if it was sharp "lets find out" I'd take it and slice my arm or something, sometimes be like that scene in Terminator. Stupid but boredom induced.
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Quote:
It seemed to have that kind of effect on you, and since it did, it was a good thing.
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Damn, I saw the thread title and thought "cutting" as in "cutting classes." So much for the simpler modes of rebellion.
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I first encountered this "self mutilation" about 20 years ago, a friend of mine was psych nurse and I was in her office when a patient walked in wearing a sweatshirt with her neck covered in 90 degree heat! After she left, I looked at my friend and said :" Jesus doesn"t that girl know it's 90 degrees outside? My girlfriend went on to explain about this self mutilation business. I'll never understand it, there are easier ways of getting attention- like "streaking" through a parking lot....
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