Self Injury

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 03-14-2012, 08:31 PM

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Originally Posted by hip hop bunny hop

Self-harm is not a cry for help; it's attention seeking dressed up as a cry for help. Give them attention and you're enabling that behavior.

Sorry, are you studying psych?

midnight rain · 03-14-2012, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Paloma

Sorry, are you studying psych?

Are you?

hip hop bunny hop · 03-14-2012, 10:56 PM

$5 says she is.

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Originally Posted by Forward To Death

You're making this too convenient for your own argument. Masochism is to derive pleasure from pain or humiliation. On top of this, it's a stretch by all means to get attention seeking out of an extremely cherrypicked scenario of masochism. There's no humiliation involved in many cases, you just straight up enjoy pain.

So, we're in agreement that my depiction of the humiliation aspect of masochism is relatively accurate?

As far as your other point; I concede there may be some individuals who commit self-harm because they genuinely enjoy pain. However, I've yet to encounter or read about someone who gets off on making superficial cuts to their wrist in a mock suicidal manner.