[Megan]

My friend was into self-mutilation back in jr. high. I knew it was a wrong thing for her to do and I would tell her that she should stop cutting herself, but it seemed like the more I did that, the more she would cut herself and then show me her scars / open wounds. I think she did it because she was in this constant state of angst over all the shit that was happening in her life, but the fact that I was giving her attention and I was showing her that I cared about what happened to her whenever she showed me her scars made her do it even more, because she was so desperate for the positive attention. I don’t think people are scared of people who self-mutilate. I’m not scared, but it’s still weird territory, you know? Purposely cutting yourself isn’t a good thing and when you meet someone who does, you don’t know how to react. I think some people are scared of saying the wrong thing to someone who cuts themselves, because they think that if they do something wrong, that’ll cause the self mutilators to hurt themselves more. I think what I should have done, back in jr high, was tell my friend’s mom, or my mom, or some authority figure or other what was going on, because my friend wasn’t getting all the help she needed from my silly, stuttering speechings over why self-mutiliation was unhealthy and a warning sign for suicidal tendencies and stuff. She would have been pissed at me, but maybe things wouldn’t have gotten so bad for her a few years later, and she wouldn’t have done all that she did to both herself and others. I don’t know. I’m not sure if this is helpful or not, but that’s my story of what happened when my friend started slicing at herself. I say get help, but I think help often isn’t in the places you’d normally expect it to be. Get help from someone who’s older than you, who’s had experience with being too young to have their pain taken seriously by other people. Great. Now I’m all contemplative. Sigh.

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Name : Megan, Gender : F, Race : White/Caucasian, Age : 21, City : Slippery Rock, State : PA, Country : United States, Occupation : Student, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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