[BeautifullyDeprived]

So I'm in a very pensive mood..I read something about how pain is a blessing to us and I would just love to DISAGREE. firstly, I'd like to say that this is my opinion..you can have yours. The reading also had to do with humans muting their pain. on my behalf and maybe others, I'd like to say that muting our pain is the best you can do. honestly. I would rather drown my sorrows with a bottle of alcohol and yes, I am quite young but why would I be thankful for pain? Pain has ruined my life, so technically I despise pain and everyone/everything that causes pain, even myself. Pain hurts SOOO bad, and what sucks even more is that people don't know how to deal with pain so they end it. So really and truly, who's blessed for having pain? I'm not..I understand that I'm hurting emotionally but It doesn't have to bother me at school, when I'm alone, or at night..constantly reminding me that I am in CONSTANT pain. Thanks for sticking through the rant, pardon.

[Ultra Darkness]

The Three Days Grace song, Pain, says "I like it rough, 'cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all". I, however, would rather be empty than angry or hurting. Pain never feels quite real to me (physical pain, anyway), but I go out of my way to avoid it.

The pain isn't constant, it just seems that way. Everything passes...but makes a comeback. That is probably the most insideous thing about BPD...and the thing that makes it hardest to deal with. When we feel good we feel as though we've made great strives towards getting better, that we can beat this thing, and that we won't fall in to the pit of despair again. And then the next day...possibly only and hour or two after that euphoria, when sadness, the anxiety, the depression, the pain returns, we forget that we were happy or at least not hurting just a short time earlier and the pain is so intense that we are willing to do almost anything to end it..... It'a a never ending cycle and I have no solution for you, but I do understand. I do "get it". I'm there with you.

[Scorpio Eyes]

I've been in constant physical pain and I'd only wish that on my worst enemies, who frankly, deserve it. I live in constant emotional pain, which is awful. Pain isn't a blessing. It's just a very awful part of life that some recieve more than others. My existential philosophy is really grim, but it's what it is. My pain gives me purpose and it makes me strong. I suffer, therefor I am. Feeling nothing wreaks chaos on my mind. All I can offer is to try and focus it. Take your pain and throw it at something. Use it productivly.

[BrokenNBeautiful]

I am not thankful for pain at all!

I hear you, I feel you.

Pain s&cks!!!!!

I am thankful for getting thru it.

I am thankful for it not being completely constant.

It does seem pretty constant sometimes.

I am not thankful for pain, or abuse, or negative things in life.

I am thankful for the things I do have that are positive, even thru this pain.

Carol