[CharlieO]

Ive known someone who did it once people found out then she used it as a tool for attention.

It makes me sick when people do things like that just for sympathy and attention.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by CharlieO

Ive known someone who did it once people found out then she used it as a tool for attention.

It makes me sick when people do things like that just for sympathy and attention.

Would you not want to perhaps consider why they needed/wanted the attention. There could be underlying issues Charlie. There could of course be nothing more to it that a spoilt, self centred little brat who wasn't the limelight that week...... always best to consider there may be something at the root cause. (Which I am assuming, you may have determined...ie; it was the latter?)

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Pyramid*

Would you not want to perhaps consider why they needed/wanted the attention. There could be underlying issues Charlie. There could of course be nothing more to it that a spoilt, self centred little brat who wasn't the limelight that week...... always best to consider there may be something at the root cause. (Which I am assuming, you may have determined...ie; it was the latter?)

agreed, I would think there is usually underlying issues and unhappiness. At the start of this thread, I couldn't understand how people could harm themselves, then I thought omg I'm a smoker, if that isn't self harm I don't know what is!

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Stu

Excuse me but I do believe ILTRW was being deadly serious.

Are you ILTRW's spokesman Stu? I'm quite sure they are able to speak for themselves: without 'handers'. Given they made a rather vague "Watch ILTRW, Cancun' with nothing else to go on ..... it's hardly any real contribution is it. Similiar to your own 'contribution' on the thread. None as far as I can see?

Originally Posted by rhino

agreed, I would think there is usually underlying issues and unhappiness. At the start of this thread, I couldn't understand how people could harm themselves, then I thought omg I'm a smoker, if that isn't self harm I don't know what is!

Oh I can't for the life of me pretend to understand that is the preferred course of action - but in the cases that are true to the 'illness' - there clearly is something going on - even if the person isn't able to verbalise or fully explain it themselves -as more often than not: the person knows they shouldn't do it.

I guess using smoking as an example is (for me personally) a very good one. That is a form of self harm absolutely: and many cannot understand why a smoker would want to do that. Mmm...food for thought indeed rhino.