tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289688322615470169.post7419135500540950077..comments2024-03-28T15:19:47.515+08:00Comments on Tony White - Graffiti: Self harm blog (Editted)Tony Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07034697658099080220noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289688322615470169.post-63395509296171290592010-01-13T09:13:09.994+08:002010-01-13T09:13:09.994+08:00You make a very good point my friend
The interne...You make a very good point my friend <br /><br />The internet has created a new category of self harmers in this way. If one looks at all those photographs of self harm there are many who are displaying their self harm who don’t identify themselves. They do not show their faces and give no biographical information.<br /><br />What is their motive for showing the photographs in the first place if they are not going to identify themselves? They are not wanting attention in the usual sense of the word as no one knows who they are and yet they still display their self harming for the world to see. They must get some sort of psychological gain from it. <br /><br />But what it is, is yet to be determined. Maybe there is a self harmer out there who could gives us their thoughts <br /><br /><br />As to your point on solace and encouraging self harming I would answer yes to both. By looking at all those photographs one would quickly realise they are not alone and that can be a great relief and solace to some who are feeling isolated. <br /><br />The photos may also provide encouragement or permission to do more self harm and experiment with other types of self harm. If you get onto a self harmers discussion forum you can see this happening in what they say to each other.<br /><br />GraffitiTony Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07034697658099080220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289688322615470169.post-62304117449752027512010-01-13T08:50:19.272+08:002010-01-13T08:50:19.272+08:00Do you think it is a problem of the age we are in ...Do you think it is a problem of the age we are in right now.<br /><br />If we were to go back 50 years, self harming existed then, but was the occurence in the population less?<br /><br />Do we have a new breed of self harmers because of the way society has transformed in its ability to communicate wtih a greater mass of people?<br /><br />Has this era proved good because closet self harmers can seek some solace to know that they are not alone, or has it encouraged more self harming?<br /><br />Just a thought...<br /><br />And again, what part of it is genetic?Kahlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00500615451909999365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289688322615470169.post-48003191325215793752010-01-13T08:44:56.814+08:002010-01-13T08:44:56.814+08:00I concur Kahless,
That many are secretive about t...I concur Kahless,<br /><br />That many are secretive about their self harming and thus are not motivated to get attention.<br /><br />the problem in recent times is that the self harm support groups who are meant to actually help self harmers are damaging a group of them.<br /><br />these groups will state that either no one self harms to get attention or that it is a very small number. This is simply not true.<br /><br />This is from my chapter on self harm:<br /><br />In addition with the advent of the internet one can now display their self harming for the world to see and many do precisely that. It took three minutes to find some. One only has to go to a photograph sharing website such as www.flickr.com, do a search for "self harm" and one is provided with access to over one million photographs. The second photograph clicked on showed a woman displaying self harm cuts on her foreman with her face in full display. In her profile it provides her name, where she was educated, where she currently works, her website and how she can be contacted.<br /><br /><br />These people are told by the support groups that they are not harming for attention, when they are. In essence they told that their perceptions of self are wrong which is quite a psychologically damaging thing to do to a person. <br /><br />This fragile group of people is left psychologically worse off beause the self harm support groups want to create a public perception of them selves which is not completely true.<br /><br />GraffitiTony Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07034697658099080220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289688322615470169.post-40295495341355772292010-01-13T08:29:35.252+08:002010-01-13T08:29:35.252+08:00I guess many things can be discribed as self harm ...I guess many things can be discribed as self harm as you have described in other posts.<br /><br />I think there are instances where self harm is not motivated to get attention as the person taken great steps to hide the self harm. <br /><br />I see the compulsion side to it. <br /><br />Mmmm. I wonder what the delimiter is between what is self harm and what isn't. ie the definition.Kahlesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00500615451909999365noreply@blogger.com