Jayme
I self mutilated for quite while until about a year ago. I think many people do it for many different reasons, and I know quite a few people who seemed to be doing it for attention. I knew girls that would scrape their wrists and wear tee-shirts and shove it in everybody’s faces, claiming that they didn’t want anybody to notice. That always bothered me. I was always mortified of what I had resorted to and did my best not to let anybody on to it. I did it because I felt like the world around me was crushing me, as it all seemed to be falling in around me. I couldn’t breathe and it felt like the only way to take my mind off of everything that was swimming in my head was to have external pain to focus on. So I’d cut different parts of my body in order to cause myself so much pain that I couldn’t think about anything else. That’s only a personal experience and I have been trying to grow from it, it can still be hard though. I know that’s only one reason, and I’m sure there are a million more…