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[SupermanFTM]

If she's doing it for attention, take that away, and make her promise not to cut herself. Say something like, you'll always be there for her, but if she's going to keep cutting you can't be there...Make her see that it's wrong to cut ever, and if she really does have problems, help her through them. Just be the best person you can

[nox]

How can you even say "how often does she cut herself"? Even if you cut yourself once, you have problems, and you need help.

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[Tetiel]

You know... it is so easy to automatically assume that everyone who cuts themselves is emo and just looking for attention. However there is a huge way to tell: if they show it off or make it easy to see. As being an ex-cutter, ex-suicidal person as well as my sister having been a HUGE cutter I can personally tell you that if a person is not doing it for a cry for help or a cry for attention they will hide it. They almost feel... ashamed of their cutting. Or if they wanted to really commit suicide they would try it and just not tell anyone about it.

When you cut yourself generally it is a way to take away the emotional and mental anguish by putting yourself in physical pain. I, for one have used this technique many times. Sometimes physical pain is a relief for many other pains. For example I have a stomach disorder that makes me sometimes have severe vomiting. When that occurs to the point where I know that if I don't go soon I will actually throw up I pinch myself on the back of the hand where the nerves are very sensitive sometimes so hard that I bleed just so I can't think of the nausea. Very useful for times when I'm in class and I have a problem and the profs generally don't like people asking to use the bathroom in the middle of class. But you get the point, it's really the same concept. When you are a TRUE cutter who has real problems you will do almost anything to get rid of the pain and once you distract yourself from it, it DOES feel good because you don't feel that depression if only for a short while. I do hope this helps people understand what cutting is.

My sister cut herself in the worst way, really. She cut herself with a steak knife so bad and so deep that she still has scars today and that happened about 8 years ago. She told me that she was in a trance when she did it almost... and she didn't even know what she did till it was over. She hid it from anyone and only told me because she was so scared because it had gotten horribly infected. She had to go to the hospital and apparantly every single one had needed stitches but it was already too late for those because of the bad infection. People like that don't deserve to be called emos and attention whores as that's not really what it's about. Even if they were born with a silver spoon in their mouths and maybe their lives aren't very bad if they are anything like my sister they just don't deserve it. Make sure you absolutely know if it's real or if it isn't first. If you accidentally saw her scars or something get her help as fast as you can. If she was showing them off give her a swift kick in the ass and a big 'fuck you' for bastardizing a real problem.

[wookiemagic]

you should help the emo cut herself

[Silk]

You know, at so many times, I can understand where Jigsaw's motives are coming from in Saw. All these attention whores like to make out their life is bad, I say lock them up in a box, and hide the key under the flesh in their arms so they have to cut it out. That'll teach them to be grateful for life.

[padora]

You know, at so many times, I can understand where Jigsaw's motives are coming from in Saw. All these attention whores like to make out their life is bad, I say lock them up in a box, and hide the key under the flesh in their arms so they have to cut it out. That'll teach them to be grateful for life.

Zulfi is the new jigsaw. uh oh

[shabba]

give her a bigger knife.

[Xiphos]

you should help the emo cut herself

you should shut the hell up, shes my best friend. this is 1 of the reasons nothing serious can be said in general chat cuz dicks like u make a joke out of it.

thnx for all the help guys, im goin over her house soon to talk to her.