You watch your phraseology!
Dec. 12th, 2006 09:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tzikehI am looking for strong, creative words or phrases with which to replace "turd-pile" and "abhorrently repulsive" (which are merely placeholders until you all come up with something better than I can).
"I believe that this turd-pile of an idea is abhorrently repulsive."
Hit me, flist. Go crazy.
I learned all of this during my eight-month stay in the day hospital group therapy program and talking to the doctors and the cutters there, so I have, you know, actual examples. Most cutters say they do it because they feel numb inside, and they cut themselves to feel *something*. Most of them use self-harm to feel in control, to feel physical instead of emotional pain (hence the association of "emo" with "cutting). The *vast* majority of cutters begin cutting between the ages of ten and sixteen. The latest psychiatric diagnosis is that cutting is a cripplingly maladaptive coping behavior to deal with these types of issues.
We have seen House deliberately injure himself before (in Detox) and were *specifically told, in the episode*, that it was to release enough endorphins so that the *physical* pain he felt from the self-inflicted injury would outweigh the *physical* pain he felt from his leg. This is about as far from being a "cutter" as you can get.
And the TWOP thread was full of people I can only assume had heard the spoilers and were going on and on and on about poor widdle emo!House and how he's really just in need of a hug.
"I believe that this turd-pile of an idea is abhorrently repulsive."
Hit me, flist. Go crazy.
I learned all of this during my eight-month stay in the day hospital group therapy program and talking to the doctors and the cutters there, so I have, you know, actual examples. Most cutters say they do it because they feel numb inside, and they cut themselves to feel *something*. Most of them use self-harm to feel in control, to feel physical instead of emotional pain (hence the association of "emo" with "cutting). The *vast* majority of cutters begin cutting between the ages of ten and sixteen. The latest psychiatric diagnosis is that cutting is a cripplingly maladaptive coping behavior to deal with these types of issues.
We have seen House deliberately injure himself before (in Detox) and were *specifically told, in the episode*, that it was to release enough endorphins so that the *physical* pain he felt from the self-inflicted injury would outweigh the *physical* pain he felt from his leg. This is about as far from being a "cutter" as you can get.
And the TWOP thread was full of people I can only assume had heard the spoilers and were going on and on and on about poor widdle emo!House and how he's really just in need of a hug.
