i think there is two ways you can look at slef harm in general. that its all, at least in part, attention seeking. or the its never attention seeking. but i dont mean the attention seekign where you wave your cuts infront of peoples faces and go 'look what i did!', i mean the kind where you just want people to care. people may never know you cut, but part of you may want them to care that you do.
but if you flip it round, people who are 'attention seekers' in cutting still have very real problems. lets face it, there are other and better ways to get attention. so they arent relaly doint it to get attention, they are expressing how they feel in the only way they know how. people who can cope better talk abotu they're feelings, self harmers often cant. this is just our way of comunicateing. we jsut need to try and find a better way to do it.
just my two cents, please dont shout at me as im half asleep when i wrote this.
and also i dont think your attetnion seeking. your being sensible. your goign to hospital when you know you need to. but cuttign that deep is dangerous hun, so dont ever let what your freind said put you off going to hospital. *hugs you tight*
writing that, i think i agree with the second idea, that no self harm is attention seeking.
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