Posted on 02/23/2005 2:53:15 AM PST by JohnHuang2
It's a mental illness. The children are going insane.
Who are we to judge? This is just another lifestyle choice. </SARCASM>
Boy, it ain't getting any healthier these days is it?
Black lipstick and clothes, to metal things inserted all over the face, and now this.
Yes, popular culture is to blame for her tragic circumstances.
WHEN WILL THOSE SOCIAL MISCREANTS IN HOLLYWOOD EVER LEARN???!!!
(Prolonged eye roll.)
--- Yoi! What's next? "Self Gratification Awareness Day"?
It's Bush's fault.
If these idiots like pain and then why don't they do something useful with themselves and join the military - I'm sure in boot camp there will be more than enough pain to go around. :-)
Every day is self gratification day.
"There is even a new genre of music – "emo""
Emo is new??? Well six or seven years old is new I guess if you're comparing it to Mozart.
Then again, it is a worldnutdaily article.
Hopefully, but what about "Self Gratification Awareness"?
what does the Pope think of these cutters?
will cutters get extra points on college exams?
"Every day is self gratification day."
Dr Jocelyn Elders! Is that you?
I am of the opinion that most of these ills can trace their roots down to being brought up in broken homes. A child suffers severe mental damage if brought up by divorced parents.
And this is only my opinion.
to me, that stood out as if in red too
I'm wondering if the whole "cutting" phenomenon hasn't been blown out of proportion by panicky adults -- in a manner similar to the hoopla over colored bracelets a few years ago.
Angelina has the Japanese symbol for "death" tattooed on her shoulder, and the Latin words, 'Quod me nutrit me destruit,' on her stomach, meaning "What nourishes me also destroys me."
Angelina Jolie no longer hurts herself as a way of coping but she freely admits to using knives during sex play.
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In a 1995 BBC television interview Diana revealed to the world that she was a self-injurer. She said that she had cut her arms and legs, explaining, "You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help." "Diana: Her True Story," a biography written on the princess said that Diana had thrown herself into a glass cabinet at Kensington palace at various times, slashed her wrists with a razor, and cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer. Once, during a heated argument with Prince Charles, she picked up a penknife and cut her chest and thighs. Her husband still scorned her, and thought she was faking her problems, that it was melodramatic attention seeking. During a fight on an airplane, Diana locked herself in the bathroom, cut her arms, and smeared the blood over the cabin walls and seats. Another time she threw herself down the stairs.
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Christina, a compulsive talker and smoker, is known for her outspokenness on a large number of controversial topics.
In a US magazine interview Christina explained a small, smile-shaped scar on her hand. "I was trying to impress Gaby [Hoffmann, her best friend]. So I heated up a lighter and pressed it on my hand." She revealed other burn scars on her arms and said, "I wanted to see if I can handle pain.
In a 1998 Rolling Stone interview she explained where each scar came from. When she was angry about "not looking very good" Christina heated up a lighter and held it to her hand to impress some boys.
Christina also developed anorexia when she was fourteen but has since recovered. In a 1999 Mademoiselle interview she said, "In a way, I was trying to get rid of my breasts. Everyone my age wanted them, so it was like, whoo-ooo. Then I started hating them. And for all of my movies, I was supposed to be younger, so I'd have to strap them down."
It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain- one that really wants to destroy the other. And sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic.
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On May 15, 1991 Richey carved "4 Real" on his forearm with a razor blade. The wound required seventeen stitches, and was done while Richey was involved in a discussion with an NME Live Reviews Editor at the Time. The next day he called and apologized and explained his behavior, "I tried talking to Steve for an hour to explain ourselves [The Manic Street Preachers]...I didn't abuse him or insult him. I just cut myself. To show that we are no gimmick, that we are pissed off. That we are for real." By the end of 1993 he had started stubbing cigarettes out on his arm and was drinking heavily. Also, at an April 1994 concert in Bangkok, Thailand, he appeared with his chest slashed open by knives a fan had sent him. In July of 1994, after having been missing for forty-eight hours and drinking and self-injuring during this time, Richey entered a rehabilitation clinic and stayed ten weeks.
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http://www.self-injury.net/doyousi/famous/
"Every day is self gratification day." Dr Jocelyn Elders! Is that you?
I work in an ER and we see tons of it. Generallly young girls, occasionally boys. The number of screwed up kids out there is amazing.
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