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How People React to Cutting

Last night I was at a friend’s house with another friend for a movie night. The first movie we watched was How To Save a Life. In this movie, there is a kid who cuts himself. At one point, this kid is getting out of the main character’s truck and his sleeve has slid back towards his elbow and you can see several clean cuts. I was like:

“Wow, those are….clear.” I was thinking, ‘Mine don’t look that perfect.’

And they paused it and started saying things like:

“That freaks me out.” “That gives me the chills.” “It blows my mind that people can do that. *twitch*” “I’m too much of a pussy to do that.” “Right? I would be afraid I would cut a vein. This guy I know cut himself at school and almost bled to death.”

Me: “They say that if you cut across instead of down it bleeds less…”

“I know but, he cut himself like right here, at the base of his palm. *points*”

Me: “Yeah, but if you cut further from a vein, like a bit up your wrist it probably wont bleed as much.”

“Still, I couldn’t do it. Like how can people do that?” They were all wigging out and concerned.

All the while I’m thinking about the scars under my bracelets and about how one time I forgot my blade was in a book that I brought to school. And about how I’ve been wanting to cut. And about how the amount of blood differs with how much pressure you apply to your tool, how sharp it is, and where you do it.

I kept thinking about it after they played it.

Unpopular opinion?

sexloveandfood:

If I was Demi Lovato, I’d be embarrassed that every single time I’m ever in the spot light anymore, or even mentioned in a magazine, it’s because of my struggle/recovery. Never anything else besides that anymore. Demi Lovato is literally a face for self-harm/depression now, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

I’m just saying that I’d be like, “Uh I do shit BESIDES that, yaknow. Write an article about something besides that”.