Suicide and self harm!

i really dont see why people should do that just to fit in that stereotype. that just sounds plain stupid.

It's quite frightening how popular suicide and self-harming is for people, particularly younger people.
But me? I'd never even consider it. I could never hurt myself, it's just stupid.
And I'd always help anyone dealing with it if I could.

ppl who pretend to cut themslves and pretend to be depressed are just plain stupid ppl trying to get attention.....i mean why would you want to pretend to be depressed.....being freakin sad all the time isnt fun...i mean grow up and be happy that tha isnt happining to you.....gosh that just pisses me off....i mean get over yourself....there are a bunch of ppl in the world with much bigger problems

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ppl who pretend to cut themslves and pretend to be depressed are just plain stupid ppl trying to get attention.....i mean why would you want to pretend to be depressed.....being freakin sad all the time isnt fun...i mean grow up and be happy that tha isnt happining to you.....gosh that just pisses me off....i mean get over yourself....there are a bunch of ppl in the world with much bigger problems

yeh i agree. there are ppl wit real probs, on the verge on suicide, n u shuldnt fake that.

It's my opinion that 90% of the time, people who easily admit to having done it were doing it for attention in the first place. Think about it, if someone was really doing it because of severe emotional pain, then they would most likely not be easily ready to open up to someone else about it. I'm not an expert in why people cut or the pain they are feling, but i would imagine that a person who did it becuase they had emotionally sunk to a point where they felt the need to act this way would not be proud of doing it or be saying to people: "Oh yeah i cut myself. It helps me get through life." If someone can't go to a person for help with emotional pain, they why would they go to that person and tell them they're cutting to deal with the emotional pain that they couldn't tell the person about in the first place?
Most of the time people cutting are doing it for attention - not in all cases but in most.

i hate the way that this girl at my school goes on about how her sister cut herself like shes the only one that its happened to. shes not. i hated it when i found out about my sister, she had to sleep in my room for ages, but shes got over it and i think shes happier now

it's always easier to open up to a complete stranger that you've never met, and never will meet again, then to someone you know.. cause the person that don't know you will never use what you said against you..
not everyone feels that way of course, but that's how I feel..

^ Tis how I feel to.

my friend tries to cut her self, especially last year, i got so dam sik of it coz it was pretty obv she wasnt really depressed & just wanted the attention, im sorry if that seems harsh but she just rubbed it off & shed go from bein all boo-hoo to exstaticly(sp??) happy in 2seconds. i know its stupid to cut yourself cause ive done it twicee, lukily only 1 scarred but its so stupid, but, if it seems like the only escape i can understand it does seem to give you some control when you feel you have none but id never do it again if i could help it, btw, im not depressed i just have a very short fuse & make a few rash decisions such as punching the fridge cause my mate pissed me off, might go for a pillow next time cause ive chipped my knuckle & it effin hurts, hehe

i know this girl who accused my friend of copying her and doing it for attention when this is the girl who cut down to her fucking tendens and had to get it stitched up and then was taking the bandage off and showing everyone the next day, all proud of it and shit.

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i know this girl who accused my friend of copying her and doing it for attention when this is the girl who cut down to her fucking tendens and had to get it stitched up and then was taking the bandage off and showing everyone the next day, all proud of it and shit.

ouch thats fucking desgusting (sp) and NOTHING to be proud of

my best friend commited suicide by slitting her wrists, she used to cut herself anyway. She never told anyone, i only found out cause i saw her arm and only me and one other person knew, we were helping her. Alot of other people started to find out (it s not that easy to keep your arm covered) and loads of people said she was doing it for attention. She had seirous issues and none of it was for attention. Some people so it for that reason and they need to stop cause someone i loved got acused of that when it wasnt true. I just cant imagine why anyone would go through pain for attention. I miss her so much and towards the end of her life she was being bullied cause she thought the only way to help her self was to take a blade to her arm. It makes me feel sick to think that people believe the only way out is suicide. I hate her for what she did but i would give anything to have her back.

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my best friend commited suicide by slitting her wrists, she used to cut herself anyway. She never told anyone, i only found out cause i saw her arm and only me and one other person knew, we were helping her. Alot of other people started to find out (it s not that easy to keep your arm covered) and loads of people said she was doing it for attention. She had seirous issues and none of it was for attention. Some people so it for that reason and they need to stop cause someone i loved got acused of that when it wasnt true. I just cant imagine why anyone would go through pain for attention. I miss her so much and towards the end of her life she was being bullied cause she thought the only way to help her self was to take a blade to her arm. It makes me feel sick to think that people believe the only way out is suicide. I hate her for what she did but i would give anything to have her back.

I'm really sorry about your friend, first of all. But she was lucky to have a friend like you who tried to help her out. I was actually lucky enough to have a friend who might have saved me from doing the same thing. I don't think anyone who hasn't been in the situation could know exactly how much a friend can help you get out of being depressed. It was a horrible, dark time in my life when I started cutting myself (yes, I did it) and the reason I feel I can talk about it now is that it's behind me, and I don't feel the need to do it anymore. But honestly, sometimes a friend can really make the difference.

I don't get why this is titled suicide ans self harm...most of the time suicide and self harm are completely different...self harm normally keeps you alive...

i dont get why people say that real cutters dont do it for attention.. people that harm themselves like that for attention are just as bad as the ones that do it 'for real' i mean.. it obviosly shows that they do not get enough attention from parents/friends/teachers and they need to harm themselves to get it..

i used to be real shy and people were really mean.one day i tried but i stopped myself. it was really emotional. see i was alone and i got a knife out. i allmost cut my rist but i droped the knife and droped on the ground and started crying. since then i really love life and i grew a back bone. now it a blast. it was bad, but hey. my life rocks now. not to brag sorry. when your close to that stuff its better to get help.

I used to cut but stopped since I was caught . I really want to start again but dont want to be sent to a mental hospital......

Eh, I don't know why I'm doing this, but I guess I never really ever had anyone to talk to about this, and I guess since we're all 'online' I have nothing to loose.

I drove my exgirlfriend to attempted suicide once.
After doing something so terrible and so evil, and then told her the truth, she became really depressed and paranoid for the months to follow.
She told me that she would wake up with her hands clasped tightly around her neck, and that if the pain hadn't awoken her, she would have died, which was what she was going for; a painless death in her sleep.
I don't want to explain what I did to her, but...yeah.

It's been a year...she's forgiven me just about a million times, saying that she was in a really bad place at the time, and it wasn't ALL my fault and stuff...but I still have trouble living knowing what I did.
Tis is the first time I've actually told any other life of what happened...
Well, Mary told people...mainly her psychiatrist.
So whenever the topic of 'suicide' or 'slitting wrists' comes up, I always get really uneasy and angry at myself.
To the People out there who enjoy it or think it's ok:
It's not. Seriously. And it's selfish too. Like it or not, there's always someone out there who will be hurt or in terrible pain because of what you do. Suicide is really, really wrong, and i know people can turn around.
After her therapy, Mary got a lot better, and enjoys life...for the most part.

i'm still fighting with myself if I should tell my friends how badly down I've been, and that I'm not back up as they think. But I'm scared that they'll go away, when I've needed friends before they've all disappeared and right now I couldn't deal with that.
What's sort of upset me is that one of my mates has her parents in the psychiatry and one day we talked about some that cut themselves and my mate said she found it stupid and annoying that someone would cut themselves for attention. I've not done that but still, it made me think twice.
I haven't cut myself again, but sometimes i feel like giving up this struggle. i tried to get help thru school but they forgot about it. but they dont know everything. This is the first place where I've actually told anyone about it.
well i doubt this gave another view on this thread but I felt like i had to write it down

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i'm still fighting with myself if I should tell my friends how badly down I've been, and that I'm not back up as they think. But I'm scared that they'll go away, when I've needed friends before they've all disappeared and right now I couldn't deal with that.
What's sort of upset me is that one of my mates has her parents in the psychiatry and one day we talked about some that cut themselves and my mate said she found it stupid and annoying that someone would cut themselves for attention. I've not done that but still, it made me think twice.
I haven't cut myself again, but sometimes i feel like giving up this struggle. i tried to get help thru school but they forgot about it. but they dont know everything. This is the first place where I've actually told anyone about it.
well i doubt this gave another view on this thread but I felt like i had to write it down

If you ever wanna talk about it then u can pm me if you like, because I know what you're going through.
But if you are stopping, that try really hard to not do it again, no matter how tempting it seems