Deleted User said 8 years, 8 months ago:

Bodies Under Siege: Self-Mutilation and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry By Armando R. Favazza
Bodily Harm: The Breakthrough Healing Program for Self-Injurers By Karen Conterio
A Bright Red Scream: Self-Mutilation and the Language of Pain By Marilee Strong
Cutting: Understanding and Overcoming Self-Mutilation By Steven Levekron
The Scarred Soul: Understanding & Ending Self-Inflicted Violence By Tracy Alderman
Secret Scars: Uncovering and Understanding the Addiction of Self-Injury By V.J. Turner
Self Injury: Psychotherapy with People Who Engage in Self-Inflicted Violence By Robin Connors
Skin Game: A Cutter’s Memoir By Caroline Kettlewell
Women and Self-Harm: Understanding, Coping, and Healing from Self-Mutilation By Gerrilyn Smith
Women Living with Self-Injury By Jane Wegscheider Hyman
Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut & Self-Injure

Dan said 8 years, 8 months ago:

@brokenstatue Agreed ._.

Deleted User said 8 years, 8 months ago:

People are not suddenly going to achieve what you may see as some form of enlightenment and suddenly stop harming themselves because of what you’ve said. Telling people other people will feel bad if they hurt themselves doesn’t really help AT ALL. In some cases it’ll just make them feel worse because you’re putting other people’s wishes above theirs, when they’re equally important to anyone else. I get you may have good intentions, but making people feel guilty about their chosen ways of coping isn’t going to help, rather create more harm. It also probably doesn’t help at all that you’ve stated methods of people killing themselves, even though they probably already know. I’m glad that God gives you personally a reason not to do those things, but this doesn’t help for people who aren’t religious, and for people who are religious if they are doing this, it’ll probably just make them feel worse and that’ll just ensure the habit rather than stop it. Stopping self-harming is a lot more difficult than you believe, and although I wish people would never turn to it, it’s their method of coping with difficulties in their lives. Address the reasons why they’re doing it, rather than making them feel guilty for something they can’t control. Having scars isn’t something to be ashamed of, and if people do judge others for that, people who self-harm are better off without those people in their lives. PEOPLE NEED SUPPORT, NOT JUDGEMENT.

Deleted User said 8 years, 8 months ago:

Just a word of warning, the OP has been Bible thumping constantly for about a week now, and it hasn’t been that successful. Any attempts to get them to stop the mythological abuse will only lead to them claiming they are oppressed.

Deleted User said 8 years, 8 months ago:

I love this line “PEOPLE NEED SUPPORT, NOT JUDGEMENT” @Risingarpeggio
@AWritersPerspective That post is all sorts of WRONG!

Kwonza said 8 years, 7 months ago:

A few sentences of this post is good. The rest is incredibly offensive.
I’m an atheist. I believe in science, not magic. Some people are Christian on here, they believe in the teachings of God, not this preachy nonsense.
I’m just saying, don’t post things like this. To be there is no God. Never was and never will be. Does that make me wrong? No.
So the entire post is essentially irrelevant if you aren’t an avidly strong minded Christian.

Rain said 8 years, 7 months ago:

This topic should get deleted. Since all it does is upset and offend people.

big pipsqueak said 8 years, 7 months ago:

The majority of these reasons are invalid for me I just don’t have the emotional energy to go through them one by one. What I will say, though, is that you shouldn’t be threatening people with being locked up in an institution. First of all, it will just make those who self harm more afraid to tell others and get help, and besides, IT’S NOT TRUE. My parents know I self harm and they didn’t put me in an institution or a psych ward for that matter. Also, they didn’t take away my razors because they know I’ll just find something else and because they realize that it is my coping skill if I can’t do it I would probably attempt suicide (again).