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I'm ashamed to admit it but when I was severly depressed not long ago I should take a knife or razor to my arm, legs, stomach or sides. It releases emotional pain. How? It gets rid of stress. I'm not saying go cut yourself when your stressed though. Not only will you be very unhappy with your body afterward but its very adiccting(like drugs) and once you feel the "rush" of cutting the more you want to.

Oh ,well, Im sorry Seppela. I didn't mean to sound obnoxiouse. I know that u were a really good observer so, yeah Lol, I'm sorry if I sounder mean to you because I wasn't trying to be^^ I don't think I should post here anymore.

Goths do not cut their wrists, they were a lot of baggy black clothes, thats why people respect Goths, they do not try and get attention but hruting themselves.

It's forgotten.

What I don't understand is how cutting onesself releases stress. I should THINK that, seeing one's own blood coursing out of a wound. Especially if a person is going to the extreme and thinking suicide, and cuts their wrists in such a way as to accomplish that. If they don't really MEAN to, but acted out of emotional stress and desperation, then they have to face the panic and fear that comes of wounds bleeding PROFUSELY. And a deep enough cut on an extremity (an arm or a leg), if it hits the right vessel, can bleed OUT (fatally).

Even a minor cut, of the kind that cutters apparently do, can become infected with any manner of unpleasant diseases.

It's DUMB.

I honestly think that you say that because you have never been driven to the point of cutting like I have. Cutting is dumb, your right. But its wrose than drugs. Its so hard to get off of...anyway cutting gives you a sence of "feeling" when your in depression. Cutting is dunb but if you were EVER depressed you need to know that there are people who would care for you and if you cant grasp that then its gonna lead to self harm. I've gone way farther than cutting...

TZ, I have been driven, more than once in my life, to the very brink of suicidal thoughts. And I have always managed to overcome them. You really have no idea what my teenaged and adult life has been like, so please don't make the mistake of assuming I speak out of ignorance.

I also find more productive ways to deal with stress rather than self-mutilation. It is a weak person who turns to drugs or self-mutilation (or violence) to relieve stress. I don't care WHAT the excuses are.

So you're prejudece against Emos then Roxas. You don't like them for a VERY dumb reason therefore you are prejudence against them. That's wrong. So since Maya (sorry to bring ya up into my post girl) is dumb since she's emo? That's just... dumb.

And since "emo" does mean "emotional" you are bashing EVERYONE since everyone has some sort of emotion. In the long run, you are pretty much bassing yourself. You are saying that they are a waste of time when it's there life style. It's not yours so why do you even give a care?!

Another thing, do you HONESTLY think that when people are so depressed that they cut themselves that they think of how bad other people have it?! You may think that but here's a little FYI: THEY DON'T! When people are so depressed that they resort to cutting for the relieff of both emotion and physical pain, they don't think about things like you do when you're not depressed. I would know. So DON'T talk about things like that unless you've been in their shoes. It's just plain ignorant.

Emo's don't cut themselves for 'attention'. That would be plain idiotic of them. They do it for reasons you obviously would never be able to understand. So like I stated above, unless you have been in their postition, DON'T talk about it like you have.

And you were also wrong when you said everyone respects Goths. I for one, do not. I have never met a Goth that was any where near as nice to me as the Emos I know so once again, ignorance has clouded your judgment.

Once more, DON'T try to talk about things you don't know. Emos are not dumb and are pretty smart. And EVERYONE in one way or another is Emo. So your bashing everyone in a round-about way. So think of that next time you tell someone that you are prejudece against Emos just because you think their actions are dumb. (Like you've never done something dumb before.)

I would like to point out, for the record, that while I may express my emotions at times, and experience stress because of external burdens and influences, I am not the least bit "emo". "Emo" is a trend, like any other. Being emotional itself certainly does not make one, by definition, "emo".

Whom, exactly, are you talking to?

Yeah, well, if this was directed at me, did I EVER say I was trying to change someones oppinion? I was telling Roxas that he's ignorant of Emos and not to talk about things he doesn't understand.

To me I am a little part of emo( sometimes I walk around like I was possed) but I never cut my wrists or anything like that

You guys are getting out of controle this topic is getting into the shout box and everything! People going around saying rude things about emo people when they should not even be saying things at all. DONT SAY THINGS THAT ARE NOT NICE!
It's getting really annoying and i dont like it. And i dont think other people like it either. I think this topic was pretty down right stuped in the first place. just because somebody is different dosent mean we dont have feelings. Show a little more respect!
There for im going to report this topic to a mod. And see what they think about this whole situation. Because its not really far when everybody picks sides.
-BlackAdder

I would recommend that you not get into finger-wagging. Talk like this is best left to a global forum moderator...NOT a member.

Compared to the things said about "emos" on various other internet sites, I think this topic has been pretty tame. And really, you're not going to be able to stop people from talking about it...especially by telling them that YOU "...are getting annoyed and...don't like it".