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Old Mar 04, 2014, 05:05 PM
Espresso Espresso is offline
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Originally Posted by pudica View Post
At least people care enough to tell you not to do it, would you be happier if they told you "go ahead cut yourself, it doesn't matter what happens to you"?
Yes, at least people care enough to tell me not to do it. I do appreciate that. But then it also doesn't help at all if they get angry at me for doing it.

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Originally Posted by nevergoodenough
My therapist told me once that when I self harm, I dissociate from my problem and don't deal with it. So it helps me in the short term but makes it harder for me to be helped in the long term. I don't know if I really believe that, but it's something to think about.
Interesting.