09-23-2006, 03:20 AM
When it comes to suicide and cutting, I'm too much of an extrovert in those regards to do it to myself. Death and injury are strictly reserved for other people in my book.
Though I disagree with suicide, partially due to having an ex-girlfriend who was suicidal, partially due to my own beliefs. Nothing religious, and I don't see it as cowardly. I dislike how it pains those close to the former-person-now-corpse, and the stress it can put on people dealing wiht someone who is suicidal, (gods, how I'm familiar with that) but I know if someone really wants to kill themselves, they'll find a way.
Cutting, however, is something I can perfectly understand. When someone is injured, chemicals are released into the body. The Endorphins released into the body are a self-produced opioid, quite understandable when the alternate name Endomorphine is known. However, it can be deeper than a simple physiological reaction. Cutting oneself is reinforced by the release of those chemicals, cementing it in one's mind that cutting is a good thing, that it feels good, or that it relieves stress. Thus, it continues. I see it not as something to be judged, equal in my mind to my belief that one's religious beliefs or one's favorite color can also not be judged. It is simply yet another coping method, granted one that can be self-destructive, but one nonetheless.
Though I disagree with suicide, partially due to having an ex-girlfriend who was suicidal, partially due to my own beliefs. Nothing religious, and I don't see it as cowardly. I dislike how it pains those close to the former-person-now-corpse, and the stress it can put on people dealing wiht someone who is suicidal, (gods, how I'm familiar with that) but I know if someone really wants to kill themselves, they'll find a way.
Cutting, however, is something I can perfectly understand. When someone is injured, chemicals are released into the body. The Endorphins released into the body are a self-produced opioid, quite understandable when the alternate name Endomorphine is known. However, it can be deeper than a simple physiological reaction. Cutting oneself is reinforced by the release of those chemicals, cementing it in one's mind that cutting is a good thing, that it feels good, or that it relieves stress. Thus, it continues. I see it not as something to be judged, equal in my mind to my belief that one's religious beliefs or one's favorite color can also not be judged. It is simply yet another coping method, granted one that can be self-destructive, but one nonetheless.