Safety Pins (razors, cutting, etc.) were big in the 70s too...
Posted on 02/28/2005 3:31:42 PM PST by Zhangliqun
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up. "Cutting" refers to self-mutilation -- using knives, razor blades or even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body -- and it's spreading to a school near you.
Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney Love and the late Princess Diana. On the Internet, there are scores of websites (with titles such as "Blood Red," "Razor Blade Kisses" and "The Cutting World") featuring "famous self-injurers," photos of teenagers' self-inflicted wounds and descriptions of their techniques. The destructive practice has been depicted in films targeting young girls and teens (such as "Thirteen"). There is even a new genre of music -- "emo" -- associated with promoting the cutting culture.
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What effing planet do these people come from???
It's surprisingly common with females. Way more than you'd imagine. Bad stuff.
Its a common practice of individuals - mostly female - suffering from borderline personality disorder.
After tattoos and body piercings, what did you expect?
This is a serious psychiatric illness: Borderline Personality Disorder among narcissistic, hystrionic young women, generally. If you want a life of your own endless emotional suffering, marry one of them.
Same reason some people reach for alcohol or drugs. To take their mind off whatever problems are eating them up.
I prefer going to the gun range for some recoil therapy though. It doesn't leave scars, just an empty wallet *doh*.
What....their watching CBS, NBC, CNN, and ABC...all at the same time?
What did you call me?
If you look up "Borderline Personality Disorder" in the American Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistics Manual it may shed some light on your question.
Many of them hide it. Reading up on it, it sounds like almost a self drug. It causes as endorphin rush.
Awful
Thta's so old school, they've been doing that in India forever...I remeber seeing crap like that in National Geographics from the 1960's...that was in the 1980's...
Include branding in that list, as well.
Hey, if they want to cut themselves be my guest. As it is, the nuts have pierced every part of their bodies including their genitles which makes it fine by me since I don't have to live near them or look at them, but their Parents (ha)do and who are reminded by the wounds, What Have We Wrought? every day how they have transgressed against their children by not acting like parents.
So quite a few will die and the Darwin Effect will prosper since their nutty genes will perish with them thus cleansing the genome of all human beens.
It's that simple.
These acts emphasize their rejection and mocking of "God the Almighty."
Very sad, very ill, and seriously crying out for help. I presume most of these kids are coming from broken homes, abusive or absent parent(s), and otherwise dysfunctional "family" units.
"Emo" is a punk variant that has been around for quite some time now.... it's mostly whiny etc... nothing to do with "cutting" per se.
I'm going to repost something
last year in High school, there was this Sophomore girl in one of my elective classes. She had like ten bracelets on both wrists , and she moved her arm and I saw that she cut herself on both arms. She saw me look, and it was so awkward. I didn't know what to say. She transfered out of the class the next day. I had wanted to take her aside and talk to her, just to see if she was alright. I probably would have.
She came from a two parent family. Her dad was actually a teacher in some other town. I don't know what it is that makes teenagers do these things.
this has been going on for a LONG time. I have a friend from my high school days (early 80's) who used to cut himself and bleed all over his ex-girlfriends porch in some weird attempt to win her back. Then he started dating another girl, who herself was a cutter. We used to call her the slash-monster. Bizarre but true!
Oh, for Pete's sake, get a life!
Do you suppose a normal healthy two-parent family is the norm for these kids?
That's not entirely true.
Oh, for Pete's sake, get a life!
And no, I don't do it anymore. My eyes are failing too much to thread the needle.
Cutting is not just a 'fad'. It's a sign of severe psychological trauma.
It's sort of like when blacks were branding or burning marks on themselves.
Piercing and tatoos are just too common, I guess :)
The story is even more pathetic, because my friend is quite proud of his scars (and the fact that one time he sliced his tendons so badly that he can no longer extend his fingers fully). He happily recounts the story to anyone he meets, as if it were a badge of honor. As far as I know, he stopped his cutting about 10 - 15 years ago. No word on whether Sydelle the Slash Monster is still slicing away, however.
In classical psychological terms, you would be correct.
This, however, is different... more of a cult thing.
That's your opinion...
But the metaphysical spiritual realm exist independent of the physical.
And within that spiritual realm exist the reality of Evil and God.
The mind can indeed be "possessed" by thought NOT of this world -- whether you choose to believe it is so.
This type of healing is not so much a matter of psychiatric "therapy."
They are a deeply mentally disturbed cult.
I agree, who's asleep at their post???!!!!! Michelle, if you are ever down South, give us a ring!
Not many things are "entirely true," but this condition is mostly of a spiritual nature.
It would be very dangerous to consider cutting a fad. Anyone who would find cutting to be a 'good thing' probably has some issues to deal with, fad or no.
Boys do it too. And so do young men who have just beaten up their girlfriend...."oh oh oh...I'm suicidal!"....so they will go to the psych ward instead of to jail.
Translation: the new thing for old people to freak out about as if it was something new
Not all cutters are BPD, some just have traits. Many teens have BPD traits but outgrow them.
Cutting is so popular in High School it is sick. As a former cutter, its nothing but an attention plea, and if anything-it does feel good to "release pain," but it is not mainly abused teens. It's the majority of teens, period. It's all for attention.
Spent a lot of time in basements listening and hanging out with "emo" bands -- all are more prone to write a song about butterfly kissing girls, than they are to practice self-mutilation. "emo" in my personal experience is more "millenial generation" traditionalism and premature nostalgia than punk rock shock and self-destruction. Never thought I'd see the emo kids demonized -- only thing less threatening is the twee kids, at home working on sewing projects and handmade Field Mice mixtape covers.
Yes, the same kind of "trauma," that is manifested in self-hatred and loathing.
I believe it is subliminally demonic in nature.
Thinking back, were you subconsciously loathing yourself, OR was it merely for attention?
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