- i'm 22 (people always get hung up on me being "too old" to selfharm)
- untill my A2 exams I got really good grades
- I used to hold down 2 jobs and a full time college course
- I managed to be in the top 10% of my year at uni without turning up (before I dropped out that is)
- I used to volunteer for childline
- I was on the university debating team (the people on that I don't think even knew what selfharm was before meeting me lol)
- Other than online and to my partner I never really show any emotion
- I'm the type of person who'll go out of their way to help someone else (often to the point where it's detromentral to myself but luckily noone else notices that :P )
- I live in a very nice area of the city (even if it is in a rented flat)
I mean, I thought everyone else who cut had really severe problems and that they'd think I was just wanting attention or something, hence why I always hasten to add to people that my cutting "isn't that bad". I always felt like I had "no right" to cut, and that made me feel ashamed, because I couldn't stop...
I think everyone gest that to degree... we all think that our issues aren't "bad enough" and so we have no right to feel or act the way we do