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HerJewel -> RE: Whipping therapy cures depression (10/15/2005 8:24:32 PM)
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I don't know about others, but I don't think it's sick, just a learned way of dealing with some things. I think there are a couple of reasons why many, if not most people are uncomfortable with it. It can leave permanent scarring, but doesn't always, I see, as I look down at my hand. For Goddess' sake, why would anyone want to put a permanent mark on their body? Tattoos and piercings come to mind, but they are becoming less 'strange and abnormal', as Petunia would say, if she were reading this. Another is we've come to associate cutting with suicide, or suicide attempts, and that behavior is either stigmatized as attention-getting or downright scary to people that love and care about the person, do not want to lose them, and hope and pray and try to find ways to show them suicide really is a permanent solution to a temporary, even when no end seems in sight to the problems they face. Last thing I think of at the moment is, what if you went too deep accidentally, or got a really bad infection and lost a limb or worse? THAT would suck, big time. I don't think cutting is particularly healthy, nor does it solve any problem, but then neither do smoking, drinking, biting our nails, overeating for comfort, screaming at your kids or getting angry and lashing out at others over perceived hurts. We all find ways to deal with things, and use them over and over again. And yet they might not be acceptable to the person seated next to us. I like to think of myself as well-rounded, so I just look for new and creative ways to solve things and feel good about them while I work on it. I get a rush from many things, and a yawn from others. Finding novel, or ever more healthy ways to solve a problem or feel good is a good challenge for me... and maybe it is a little stressful and gives me a dose of those feel-good chemicals too. ;)
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