I am afraid I am going to have to concur!

I feel that you may be judging her incorrectly here. No cutter is without some type of mental instability - human beings do not injure themselves via any sort of stable thought process(excepting, perhaps, digging out a splinter or things of the like which is in the way of medical care of ones self.) and the fact that she is acting out doesn't show that she is doing it for attention, rather shows that she feels she is not getting enough positive attention. This may be because everyone around her is so focused on her "faking" that she has pretty much given up on being beleived when speaking in a normal manner, so she has escalated to see if that will work. Whats happening is that everyone is just thinking shes faking for MORE attention. Do you see what a cycle that is? It becomes more and more insipid as time goes on, and the only way to break it is to ASSUME she is telling the truth. Regardless if she truly is depressed or not, she FEELS she is depressed, therefore deserves CORRECT forms of attention and medical care.

Your little sisters life pattern is EXACTLY the same as mine went. My virginity was lost at age 13. I got drunk at 12. I did drugs at 13. Hard drugs at 19.



Me as well.

[QUOTE][She took a turn at around 15 from preppy to 'Emo'. She created this delusion (if you will) that she was severely depressed. Started to cut herself (only for attention - not a 'true' cutter). She got tattoos and several body piercings. She started to dapple in bisexual lifestyle as well.
/QUOTE]

Me as well. Only for me it was not anything close to a delusion. For me it was a very real affect of much childhood abuse. Some of it was known, some was not.
I would aks you what exactly is wrong with bisexuality, tattoos and peircing? As a bisexual woman, I have to admit I feel a little offended by your considering bisexuality to be a delusion created by Emo kids.

more later.