I think of it as normal

[erible]

I know self injury is not a normal or healthy coping method. But it just feels normal, like if someone says "I don't think it would help" or "how stupid they are" "what a dumb idea" or "how could it help" just confuse me, I think how could it not? I wonder what people think of use self harmers ... I guess I'm just so used to it...anyone else ever feel this way ?

[Syvelocin]

I don't get it either. Even before I started, I never thought those things. I never questioned it's effectiveness or critique it. I only had sympathy for people who turned to it. I guess that's why SI ended up drawing me in, I wasn't opposed to it to begin with :/

[MadManWithaBox]

I don't think a lot of people understand the concept of self harm, they just see it as like "oh she wants to kill herself" so when they find out 9 times out of ten it isn't, they're not totally opposed to the idea.

[georgiamay]

I get like that as well. When I hear people say it couldn't work, I think "you must be stupid, of course it would work." They're not stupid most of the time, they just don't understand the concept, and it annoys me a bit when people don't.

Also, if I ever watch a film where there's someone that's really suffering emotionally, and you can see all the pain they're going through, I can't help but think to myself, "If they self harmed right now they'd feel better." I would never recommend it, or speak highly of it in anyway, because it's not healthy, and it really fucked up a lot of things for me. But I know that it does help.

[Fiction]

Also, if I ever watch a film where there's someone that's really suffering emotionally, and you can see all the pain they're going through, I can't help but think to myself, "If they self harmed right now they'd feel better." I would never recommend it, or speak highly of it in anyway, because it's not healthy, and it really fucked up a lot of things for me. But I know that it does help.

Wow O.o I thought I was the only one xD That could have been me saying that. It's always like "you're crying why don't you just go and cut ffs!". Then i realise it's the person in the film that's the normal one not me :P

Yeah I don't get how people live without it.

[Magenta]

I never thought it was 'normal' per se but then again, I never thought of it as out of the ordinary. We're not freaks of nature. If anything, we're another misunderstood statistic. Not the greatest thing to be but we can't help that, right? We can't just go out in public and explain why we do it. I think we just have to deal with the ignorance of others and maybe take the time to remember that ignorance is a bliss. They don't understand but they're the ones who aren't slicing up their bodies...

I don't know if that makes sense.

[Meaningless-Darkness]

I didnt really think of it as 'normal' but what is normal? I just thought that a person must really be hurting to do something like that to themselves. Then when i tried it myself i totally understood. And then wondered if i had found a really good idea that most people had missed or did i just hurt more than them?
Now i know that im just special and its not a clever idea and i'd really like to stop, but for now it really helps and i know i wouldnt be here if i hadnt found it.