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Two days ago I was discharged from a treatment facility for suicide attempt. The third night a girl on the unit took a piece of plastic and cut her wrists. When we had group that night, a nurse came in to speak to us.
“When I worked here years ago, one night a girl cut her wrists so bad they had to take her to the hospital to stitch it up. When she got back, I asked her ‘Why do you cut yourself?’. She looked at me and said, ‘All my sadness builds up inside. Everything that happens builds up inside me and I have to let it out. So I cut myself and everything comes out. If I don’t cut myself, I will die.’ And I really believe that that little girl thought that if she didn’t cut herself, she would die.”
I’ve battled with self harm for five years and I have never heard anyone that has never cut explain it so clearly.