Cut It Out

👏👏👏❤❤ well said Burr!

Incredibly moving piece mate! This is why I love opuss, the humanity and strangers concerns for others well being, physical and mental! 👏👏👏👍

@minxyMolly ty 😪

@smellyfingers I agree and thanks. The subject has worried me since joining and now it scares me and occasionally makes me a very angry man.. And I don't like me when I'm angry 😡

It makes me sad more than angry. The fact that some people are in that dark a place to turn to self harming, but who am I to judge? Because someone isn't or doesn't express it creatively does that mean they shouldn't express it? Should I tell them to stop posting? Wouldn't that sweep the problem under the carpet and create taboo? Of course someone saying "I cut myself and it felt good" and another person replying "yeah I do too, what knife do you use" ect and acting like its "normal" and cool IMO is wrong and shouldn't be allowed tbh.

The glamourising makes me angry, the act of self harm makes me angry and those that cynically use the theme or exaggerate their truth a

Angers me.

I differentiate the sufferers and the act

Someone has to judge, the result need not be negative.

@smellyfingers 👆

Its exactly the 'I cut and it's great/powerful/release etc posts I mean. I'm anti censorship to a point.

Hmmm I totally get what you mean mate but I nor you know the true mental state of a stranger who posts online, sure we can get a rough assumption. Maybe we can judge but to be the jury too? Don't get me wrong I don't want to read kids writting go good they feel when self harming and all that crap......I'll think some more weather I want to read about others getting rat arsed and drugged up and what not lol IMO self harm is a taboo but binge drinking and illegal drug taking isn't and they are both self harming acts, as is smoking cigarettes but they have become the norm, personally I'd like to talk to self harmers and air the issues. Does that make sense? Lol coffee time me thinks haha

@smellyfingers what consenting adults do doesn't bother me. What bothers me is the risk to kids.

Again I 100% agree but I've read some kids glamourising alcahol consumption and illegal drug taking and it's after effects.....I don't ever remember it kicking off and responsible adult members of opuss making loads of posts saying its wrong of them!!

👏👏👏👏👏 Superb. Well done mate. 👍👍

@smellyfingers right or wrong, I don't see alcohol or (soft) drugs as an immediate danger in the same way as self harm. I would react the same to posts that glamourised heroin, crack, alcohol abuse as a form of coping etc

@Burrfoot that's the problem tho isn't it? Surely to get to the point where an individual self harms there must be some kind of long term trauma or mental issues? Alcohol and drug misuse has long term effects, mental effect we don't see on the outside, it can and does lead to other dangers. Self harming is an immediate effect in the act of doing it, sure, but what if a kid reads a glamourised post on booze and/or drugs and takes 10 pills and dies??? Is that not the same thing???

Very true. Well said, quite well said.

A very touching post 👏👏👏😘

@smellyfingers I agree, that's why I say I would react the same to posts glamourising alcohol abuse or drug taking as a coping mechanism. That's the important bit.

Exactly! Coping mechanisms, that's what it's about isn't it? Two sides to every story mate! I'm glad we have consistency here lol hope I didn't ruffle too many feathers, if we gonna post and talk about it then lets get real and raw and not pussy foot around hahaha 👍👍

@smellyfingers exactly 👍 meet things head on

@Burrfoot perfectly put 👏👏👏

@sammielee46 @sjw @nikujagagirl @leelee101 thanks guys.. Another eventful day on Opuss!

Wish u had this wheni

I was going through my hard time but it all worked out in the end :) great write

Wish I *

@FriendToAnimals ty and I'm glad it's better for you now 💪

@Burrfoot ain't it just! 👍

Well said, I've been feeling the same way about the subject 👏 I can definitely relate to the feeling of helplessness that some of these kids might feel, but there's always a better way of coping than by cutting. That's never right. Thanks for bringing up the issue, as sad as it is x