Scars are beautiful and should tell a story, not "oh yeah as a teenager I thought it would be cool to slice my skin open" people like that are the reason that others think all people who cut are doing it for attention
Scars are not beautiful. Saying that is only romanticizing self harm. There is nothing beautiful about being caught in that sort of addiction. Just had to say that.
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I don't know.... I see your point about romanticizing self harm, but does that really happen? I mean, can someone cut for attention and not need help? I think, regardless of the situation, if you've come to the point that you'd hurt yourself, you need help. And maybe it's just to be noticed.
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And, by the way, I think my scars are beautiful--I've been in some pretty dark places and now I'm on the other side. It doesn't just mean something to me and my family, but also to other young people who are where I've been. I can not only say I understand, but I can show them that I know how deep they are hurting.
I don't think saying that scars are beautiful is a good thing. I hate my scars... They only remind me of the times I wasn't strong enough. Saying that they are beautiful just makes it seem as cutting is ok. And it is not. I have struggled through it for a long time. And every time someone asks about them I cringe.
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It doesn't matter if anyone comes to an agreement on whether they're beautiful or not. What does matter is that you can look at them and say "I'm beautiful". My scar is not beautiful, but the person who overcame the hell it came from is. Triumph, that is beautiful. Determination to rise out of our person hell is beautiful. A Soul transformed is the most beautiful thing you will ever be.
I'm sorry to say scars are not beautiful OR romantic or whatever. Take 482048204810482035 steps away from me and poop your pants if you think mental disorders 're beautiful
Depends what type of scars, guest.
They could be scars to show that some one has had a hard time (not self harm scars, more like maybe operation scars)
They may not be beautiful to look at, but the story behind them could be.
The story of survival, maybe?
Thankyou thefuq, that's what I was meaning when I said that I was in NO way trying to romanticise self harming. But when I see a scar I like to think of all the things that person has done and been through and I guess the story behind it makes them beautiful to me, does that make sense?
But they've come out the other side, that's what makes it beautiful. I've got scars, and I love every single one of them, not because I find them physically attractive but because they are a part of me. I hope to look back on them oneday when I'm old and remember the girl I once was.
You shouldn't be embarrassed, like I said scars are beautiful. I don't know how you got your scars, but however you got them they show you've been through some tough times and come out the other side a stronger person, like a battle wound, if that makes sense.
I have many scars and some I look at with disgust and others as a reminder to myself today, "you survived that. You been through your own hell and came out alive. If you pick up that blade now to repeat back then... Than the struggle to stop cutting and become someone stronger was for nothing."
One girl at my school unscrewed the blade to the sharpener and was attacking her wrists and thighs with it. She claimed it didn't hurt and she was showing everyone.
So stupid *rolls eyes*
Not always. When I attempted 20 years ago, I had no idea there was a right way. I was suffering abuse and keeping it hidden within. It didn't work, my mom grabbed my arm and instead of asking why I would want to die and what was happening, told me angrily..you didn't really want to die, if you did you would've done it the other way. I share this because there are so many young people where I was, and to have your pain and the horrible things causing it looked at as vying for attention can be devastating. You just truly never really know what some people are going through.
I think that you still have problems if you feel so lonely to hurt yourself just to make people realize that you're there, and that we should help them, not shame them
This is rude, i used to cut myself for a year and no one ever found out until the last 2 months, then i got help and stopped. Many people do it for attention, but many also dont. Its rude people who cut sideways are attention seeking, self harm is very serious and shouldnt be looked at as just attention seeking depending on which way you harm yourself. I watched this on family guy and from then i stopped watching it because it is disrespectful to the people who cut sideways and actually end up in hostpital
I just don't like that it insinuates that cutting sideways means you want attention. Not everyone who cuts themselves wants to die, so if cutting vertical kills they would obviously do it horizontal. But whatever, it is just a joke.
Scars are beautiful and should tell a story, not " oh yeah as a 10 year old I thought it would be cool to slice my skin open" people like that are the reason that others think all people who are doing it for attention
They could be scars to show that some one has had a hard time (not self harm scars, more like maybe operation scars)
They may not be beautiful to look at, but the story behind them could be.
The story of survival, maybe?
So stupid *rolls eyes*