Spinning Insanity

One of my friends from tumblr posted this and I would like to share it because it is very true and should be told

--I have self injured since I was about seven years old. Though, I never started cutting until three years ago. It has ruined my life. I cannot leave the house without wearing long sleeves. Everyone always asks me about my scars, and I just can’t handle that, so I cover them. I have scars all over my body, but the ones on my left arm are the worse. I think everyone should be aware of what self injury actually is… It’s far from wanting attention. If attention is what we wanted, we’d go running through the streets naked. Self injury is a way to cope. Self injury is a way to escape our painful feelings. Self injury is a way to feel alive. In health class, our textbooks said that self injury is not very common, but I beg to differ. i can guarantee you that you know at one person that self injures. Obviously you don’t always know who that person is, because they hide it, but self injury is so common… Unfortunately, some people don’t understand self injury. Some people think we’re trying to kill ourselves, when really, we’re trying to feel better. Stereotypes have ruined self injury. “Emo” is a big one. People think that if you cut yourself, you’re “emo”. But it’s just a fucking stereotype, it means nothing. I do not consider myself recovered, I don’t believe that you can ever recover from an addiction, you’re always in recovery. I still self injure, but I’m trying not to. If we could just get people to understand what this addiction actually is, maybe we can stop being hated for doing it.---

I hate the fact that I do it but it truely is an addiction...