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Stress? Gee, maybe teen-agers 200 years ago did not mutilate themselves because they had no stress. Were there anything to be stressed out about then? No washing machines or any other machines, it was a constant battle to keep clothing and self clean to ward of vermin and parasites. No hot running water, the expectant teen-age mother knew she was very likely to lose her life giving birth to her child, even if she died, there was a very great chance her child would never reach adulthood, having died from the many fatal childhood diseases that had yet to be eradicated. No penicillin, keep a wound very clean, you get infected, you get amputated, do not have sex with anyone but who you are married to, if you contract a veneral disease there is no penicillin, you have this disease for life. If you live 200 years ago you are a teen-age farmer, have your guns and weapons with you as you perform the work that means living or starving during the coming winter, there is a brutal race war going on . Must not have been a stressful time then though, the teen-agers were not practicing self mutulation.
Actually, this is not a "new" trend (thanks, TV news, for making a story where there isn't one). Cutting has been going on for quite some time. Speaking from experience.
Piers Anthony, science fiction / fantasy author, actually did a book with a main character (teen female) that was a "cutter"..
I don't recall the title, but I believe it was one in a series of books about an alternate fantasy world here on earth..
25% of teenage American girls cut themselves on purpose.
As silly as they often are, I'll need to see some proof that a quarter of American girls are mentally ill.
....Fatal Attraction flashback...That's going to leave a mark.
NEXT HEADLINE TO EXPECT:
BOARD APPROVES IN-SCHOOL PSYCHIATRY SERVICES
Coming your way at taxpayer expense, if they haven't already.
And, they will be able to dispense Ritalin and other psychotropic drugs directly to the children - no middlemen(or parents or family doctor) needed!
If the trial lawyers ( aka. Edwards ) did not make everything that kids normally do possible litigation material, because they might accidently get injured, they might have some fun doing things outside without the fear of their parents or supervisiors getting sued .
Teenagers are under the stress of having to absorb and believe the official lies told at school, while at the same time, their own experiences are contradicting these lies.
Self-mutilation is part of the attempt to square the circle.
It's a poor substitute for revolution.
Rent the movie Thirteen. real, and scary portrayal of what is happening in this culture.
And I could have sworn it was because they were complete morons.
Teen-agers have such a hard life, they have to endure the deaths of their siblings from numerous childhood diseases. They have to work at the homestead, in the fields behind the horses. Always wary of savages that would kidnap or kill them. There's always wood to chop, CHOP, no chainsaw.
wild animals, some rabid had to be contended with.
Well, I guess if stress is the cause of teenagers mutilating themselves, teen-agers from 200-250 years ago probably were hacking themselves up everyday. What a bunch of BULL!
Sheesh, if we were stressed in highschool, we just smoked a joint :P
I know people like this. I meet quite a few of them in the rooms of Narcotics Anonymous. Many of the self-mutilators do drugs as well, and for the same reason. It helps them not to feel emotions. Many people who are addicted to this or to drugs or alcohol are trying to suppress emotions, usually over some horrible events in their past.
No love, No God only TV, Nintendo and Hollywood. Stress use to be caused by a Nationwide depression or a World War or a mother with 10 kids losing her husband with NO GOVERNMNET benefits, it was something that the strong survived today it is punch line for a bad hair day.
I say don't cut your arm.......cut your throat!!
I am all about AVOIDING mutilation.
Well, thank goodness we don't have prayer in public schools....