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01-16-2010, 10:19 PM
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Re: Some EMO Girl Needs Serious Help
funny how this has the most views. lets give her some more attention because surely thats all shes seeking with them photos. gross.
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01-17-2010, 07:42 PM
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Re: Some EMO Girl Needs Serious Help
What psychological factors influence Self-Injury? A huge number of individual with self-injury have suffered some form of childhood abuse. ‘Significant correlations exist between both sexual and physical forms of childhood violence and SI. Other violence within the home has also been determined to be related to self-injury, as has emotional abuse.’ SI has also been linked to having witnessed or been part of ritual abuse. ‘The short- and long-term effects of abuse are far reaching and severe, impacting emotions, memories, relationships, self-esteem, behaviors, and even identity.’ In some ways self-injury may be a reaction to abuse. ‘If you have endured and survived trauma or abuse, you can attest to the horror of these events.’ During episodes of abuse you have probably felt feelings of violation, helplessness, and powerlessness- as if you have little or no control over your environment or even your own body. You may be confused by the way in which you were treated. You may have felt even guilty. The psychological effects of trauma are so intense and severe that it became essential that you find a way to cope. Self-Injury may have helped you cope or deal with the aftereffects of your past traumatic experiences by giving you a way to escape negative feelings and to feel in control for once. SI can be used for many uses. It may be a way of recreating some of the abuse you went through or witnessed as a child, allowing you to reenact the trauma through self-injury. Recreating previous traumatic experiences can be used as a way to symbolically alter the original course of the abuse, becuase when you hurt yourself, you are the one in control. This feeling of control can help change your reaction to these past abuses. By hurting yourself to recreate trauma, you are able to change from a situation where you felt helpless and powerless to one where you were in complete control, and had complete power. Self-injury may also be used to relieve psychological tension. This extreme form of tension may directly result from past traumas (‘as in the case of memories or flashbacks’) or may indirectly result from past traumas (‘such as an extreme reaction to loss or isolation’). You may experience moments when you are unable to get rid of painful images or memories of the trauma. At these times you may use self-injury as a way to get rid of these overwhelming memories. Suicide is Different Suicide is the ending of life. Chronic feelings of depression and anxiety can lead to someone deciding to end their life. Suicide is often the result of overwhelming feelings of hopelessness and helplessness and of great psychological discomfort. In some cases the psychological pain comes from overwhelming and enescapable physical pain, as in the case of the terminally ill. Suicide is used to end psychological pain, people who attempt or succeed in killing themselves are not looking for a way to adapt to their psychological state. ‘In contrast, self-injury is used to cope — to adapt to severe psychological discomfort.’ SI is not used to make life-threatening injuries. You hurt yourself so you can feel better. This is a goal that is infinitely different from that of suicide, which is to feel nothing at all. ‘The means, intent, and often the result of self-injurious acts are vastly different than those of suicide.’ Self-injury is not a mild form of suicide, nor is it a suicide attept gone awry. Instead, SI is a means of coping during a time of intense or overwhelming distress. |
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