I have long thought that one purpose of SI was communication. Experts told me no, because most people go to such great lengths to hide it. But for me, communicating was always a major part of it. I was saying that I was hurt, and that I didn't think anyone believed that I hurt, so I needed to prove it; or that maybe I didn't think that they thought that I hurt enough, or that I thought they thought that I didn't have the right to be hurt. Above it all, I was saying that I needed help and didn't know how to get it.

You are communicating too, even if communincating to yourself. If you can put it into words now, I wonder if you can take it one step further, and say the words instead of cutting?

TC,
Rap