Just A Glimpse...

Shit like this needs to stop.

That people romanticize and glamorize cutting pisses me off. There’s absolutely nothing romantic or glamorous about self-harm, so stop setting up such a pretty scene for a picture when you’re slicing into your skin, hurting yourself. Stop drawing hearts and flowers on your arms, thighs, etc around your bloody cuts. Stop taking pictures of your arms while dressed in cute lingerie.

It’s not cute. It’s not funny. It’s not something to be made into something whimsical and romantic or set up to look beautiful yet sad.

I’m not being judgmental. I used to cut, a lot and often. I still struggle not to cut some days. I mostly cut on my thighs so no one would see them and sometimes on my stomach and upper arms. Anywhere I could keep hidden in regular clothes worked best for me when I was cutting. I wanted what I got out of it without having anyone know because I knew it wasn’t healthy and wasn’t good for me to be doing. I knew if people saw the cuts and the scars they would question how it happened because it’s not fun, cute, silly, romantic, pretty or anything other than ugly, dangerous and harmful.

I hate seeing shit like that pop up on my dash and hate seeing it on a blog as I’m browsing stuff on blogger, wordpress, etc. There’s no need to try and glamorize cutting or any other form of self harm. There is no tragic beauty in what you’re doing and a lot of people don’t do it to get attention. By glamorizing it, you’re only helping people who don’t understand it continue to treat it less seriously and think of it less as a real problem. And that’s not helping anything, only hurting even more and making it harder for people who wants to get help for it to do so because it’s so often seen as a “cry for attention” instead of a real problem. So stop this bullshit..