[Unknown Shadow]

MAYBE A MINOR TRIGGER. Everytime someone sees my scars they ask a lot of questions. It's not their freaking problem. I told my friend I cut, but not because I wanted, he provoked me. He was telling how easy it's to be me, he wasn't listening when I was telling him he has no idea what's going on inside me, he was just laughing. I wanted to end that conversation, so I told him "no, you really DO NOT want to be me" and I showed him my scarred wrist. I was expecting him to shut up, but instead he started asking if I'm all right, if I want to die, if I sought help. He was acting like I was committing suicide right in front of him. Why do he even care, I don't give a ***** about his emotional ****, so why should he care about mine? He is not the type of friend I would talk to about these things.

i'm sorry you are feeling like that towards him

i am sure he was just concerned, is all

((((((hugs)))))

[Atypical_Disaster]

You summed up exactly how I feel when people react to my self harm scars. I keep them hidden most of the time because of this. It's not their ****ing problem, so leave me alone!

You're definitely not alone in feeling this way.

[tealBumblebee]

You should have just been like "No no no. Don't get concerned now. Keep laughing. My life is so easy remember?" I don't think its anyone elses business, and I feel like the only reason they care is so that if we off ourselves they don't have a guilty conscious - not because they care. I'm with you.

[HikingChick]

This has happened to me too often it seems. One time I was crying for an unrelated issue besides SI and my friend saw the 10 year old scars on my wrist and said "When did you do this? Why did you do this?" It only made me cry more and I said "I went thru a hard time in high school, I dont want to talk about it". Recently I was at the doctors getting my annual woman exam and the doctor saw the large, wide scar on my lower leg and said "Well what happened here?" and I was pretty bold and said "I cut myself" She was very taken aback and said "Why would you do that?! What were you thinking??! There is no reason to do that". Although the scars on my wrist are old I get lots of questions and looks about them.