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........ HELP RAISE AWARENESS!"COPY" THE CODE IN THIS TEXT BOX, THEN "PASTE" THE CODE ONTO YOUR MYSPACE! THEN YOU'LL HAVE THIS SELF INJURY AWARENESS VIDEO ON YOUR MYSPACE PAGE!I ONLY HAVE ONE RULE HERE: RESPECT YOURSELFS, AND SHOW RESPECT TO EACHOTHER. IF I CATCH ANYONE HERE GLAMORISING SELF INJURY, OR PROMOTING SELF INJURY IN ANY WAY I WILL BAN THEM FROM THIS PAGE! WE NEED TO BE HERE TO SUPPORT EACHOTHERS' STRENGTHS, NOT OUR WEAKNESSES. THIS PAGE IS NOW AND SHALL REMAIN A SAFE HAVEN!BELOW ARE THE MEDICAL FACTS ABOUT SELF INJURY.* * * * * *WARNING: IF YOU ARE A SELF INJURER THIS MAY TRIGGER YOU. USE CAUTION WHILE READING THIS, AND STOP READING IF YOU FEEL WHAT YOU ARE READING IS TRIGGERING YOU TO SELF HARM.I am writing this to raise awareness about self injury, also known as self mutilation, or cutting. This is to share with your parents, this is to share with your friends. If you are a self injurer, you are not alone. I myself am a recovering self injurer and I am dedicated to raising awareness on this subject that people like to sweep under the rug.Self injury exists. When your child is wearing long sleeves in the middle of a hot summer day, ask them, Why?When you are sitting with a friend and ask them about the dark slices on their arms and they shrug it off with "The cat scratched me"do not let it go. Ask them. Care.Self mutilation is startlingly real,and in your own living room and the sooner we address this matter head on, the better. The majority of people who self injure do not self injure for attention. That is a huge misconception. People do not self injure because it is a "cool" or "emo" thing to do. Self injury is not limited to adolescence. I will give you the facts here, the methods, and the signs. I sincerely hope this helps someone.Princess Diana was a self injurer. In her book, she described cutting open her arms and smearing the blood along the walls of Charles' private airplane. Here are some facts about self injury. Talk about this with your family if you live with the grim reality of self injury. Talk with your family doctor. Bring the shame of this illness to light, so you can begin to heal, and begin to live again.First, the methods. For the parents out there reading this, look for the signs. Your kids are asking you for help if this is happening, and anger is not the way to help them heal. Anger is understandable, it comes with your initial panic of realizing what your child is going through. But anger is not the way to handle this. Every architect has tools, and every injurer has his or her preferred methods. Here are some.Cutting - Cutting, also known as slicing or slashing, is the most common way people hurt themselves. It is typically done with a knife, razor blade, piece of glass, or other sharp objects. Most of the cuts are done on the arms, legs, wrists, and chest; but other people cut on other parts of the body such as the stomache, face, neck, breasts, and genitals. But cutting on the arms and wrist is the most common because excuses can be made more easily (for example people can say that they had an accident while cooking).Burning - Burning is another common way people hurt themselves. Usually done with cigarettes, lighters, matches, kitchen-stove burners, heated objects (branding irons or hot skillets), and burning objects. Sometimes people even use flammable substances such as gasoline, propane, alocohol, and lighter fluid. Similar to cutting, most people burn themselves on their arms, wrists, legs, and chest.Interferance with the Healing of Wounds - Most people have unconsciously interfered with the healing of a wound but it is considered SI when it is done deliberately. Some people remove stitches prematurely, stick objects such as needles, pins, etc. into the wound, or do other things to reopen the wound.Hitting - Hitting themselves with their fists is another way that people hurt themselves that is most commonly done on the head or thighs. Although it may not seem as serious as cutting or burning it is done for the same reasons and results.Extreme Nail Biting - It is common for most people to bite their nails. But when it is used as a form of SI it is more severe and frequent than normal. It can result in the injury and damage of the fingernails or cuticles. People can bite their fingernails so much that they draw blood.Scratching - Another common thing amongst most people scratching can become a form of SI. People who use it as a method of SI make it more extreme in frequency, intensity, and duration. Area's of skin can become raw or sometimes even bloody. Usually the scratching is done with the fingernails but sometimes it is done with a sharp or semisharp object such as a knife, comb, or pencil. Sometimes it is done unconsciously.Hair-Pulling - Trichotillomania, "the excessive and recurrent removal of your own hair resulting in a noticeable loss of hair," is the only form of SI recognized as a psychological disorder by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Usually the hair is removed from the scalp, eyebrows, or beard, but can be from any part of the body. The bald spots that result from Trichotillomania are usually covered with a hat, bandage, or sunglasses.Breaking of bones - A form of SI that is more rare than the others, the breaking of bones is a serious and severe form of SI. Usually, people break their bones with an instrument such as a hammer, brick, or other heavy objects. But sometimes people throw themselves into walls or doors.Other - There are other ways people hurt themselves that are not listed here. The above are just the most commonly known.Why, why would anyone choose to do this to themselves? What would a person get out of this? Here are some of the most common payoffs. Noone does anything unless there is some sort of pay off, and that is true even for self injury.Relief from feelings - Often people hurt themselves to try to relieve intense emotions and feel better. These intense feelings can seem uncontrollable, frightening, and dangerous. When people have them they may think that hurting themselves is the only way to escape these feelings.People who hurt themselves often are unable to control their emotions. They cannot experience and express them the way most people do: by crying, screaming, yelling, etc. This can be due to a number of reasons.It may have been unsafe- for psychological or physical reasons- to express your emotions at home, etc. The expression of your emotions may have been ignored, denied, or disputed.Your parents or people you grew up with may have not been able to express their own emotions in a safe and direct manner. Or if they did express an emotion such as anger they did so through violence. You may have seen people relieve their feelings or depression or anxiety through drug and alcohol use. You may have never been shown how to express feelings in a normal and healthy manner.You may have seen others SI to release their feelings, and have mimicked them.People who SI often say that they feel depressed, isolated, alienated, isolated, or frustrated before they SI. This can cause an uncomfortable level of anxiety and torment, which they feel they must escape. SI will lessen these feelings temporarily.Coping Mechanism - A coping mechanism is a method of coping people use to help them get through difficult times. SI is an extreme method that provides a sense of relief- as you know by lessening physical or psychological feelings. Thy physical damage and pain cause the body to employ its own coping methods to deal with them. SI is a negative coping mechanism because it causes people further harm and puts them in dangerous or uncomfortable situations.Stopping, Inducing, or Preventing Dissociation - Dissociation is "a psychological state in which the indivual experiences an alteration in consciousness, memory, and sometimes identity." People who experience it may feel detached from their bodies, a floating sensation, or a sense that they are separated from their bodies, watching themselves. Everybody has experienced mild dissociation- for example tuning out when someone is talking to you. But some people use dissociation as a coping mechanism. The dissociative states they may experience sometimes become overwhelming because of how long they last or their intensity. SI is way to reduce, prevent, or stop a dissociative state.This is how it generally occurs: The extreme anxiety that precedes SI often can cause people to dissociate where physical pain is lessened. Some people welcome their dissociative feelings because they can be a relief from emotional pain. However, other people feel that dissociation is uncomfortable, frightening, or alienating. SI increases self-awareness in these dissociative states and reduce or end it.There is an extreme form of dissociation which can lead to alterations in identity, known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder). For some people with DID SI is a way to gain control, avoid, or end the switching of personalities.While people SI dissociation block or reduce the feelings of physical pain. This can be very dangerous at times because people lose awareness of how much damage they're inflicting on their bodies. They may hurt themselves more severely than they planned.After SI-ing the level of dissociation decreases. You may return to a level of normal consciousness so that you might treat your injuries. SI helps you temporarily cope, tolerate, or reduce overwhelming emotions and control your level of dissociation.Euphoric Feelings - When people SI they, of course, are hurting their bodies. The body responds to the injuries by working to minimize pain and damage and to heal the wound quickly. The brain releases substances called endorphins (has similar effects to morphine) that work as pain-killers when you hurt yourself. Endorphins can also cause a pleasant physical sensation and can become addictive. So, some people SI to produce feelings of euphoria.You may feel tingling sensations before hurting yourself. Or feel at peace or full of life while you are SI-ing. You may even feel sexually aroused. All these feelings are due to the endorphins.But the problem is that the body can produce a tolerance to endorphins. The feeling of euphoria won't be as strong in following SI acts. You may even injure yourself more severely to experience the high euphoric feeling you felt during your first SI experience.Physically Expressing Pain - The physical expression of emotional pain causes some people to achieve certain goals such as:Evidence (scars, etc.) that you are suffering psychologically. Sometimes people with SI minimize or doubt their internal feelings.Communication - SI is sometimes used by people to express what they are thinking, feeling, or experiencing to others. By doing this you are more likely to get what you need from family, friends, or others. You might be trying to send out messages such as "I need help," "I hurt," etc. but that is not always the ways others perceive it. They might interpret your SI as "You're crazy," "You're trying to kill yourself," etc. Other people might see you using your SI as manipulation.WHO TYPICALLY TAKES PART IN SELF INJURY?Gender- Both men and women hurt themselves. More often women are seen with this behavior in a therapist's office, a psychiatric hospital, etc. Wheras more men are seen with SI in prisons.Age- SI behavior usually begins when a person is a teenager, escalates in a person's twenties, and disappears by their thirties.Substance Abuse - Many people who SI have histories of drug and alcohol abuse. Often this is because drugs are another method of coping because they can temporarily ease internal pain. But rarely are people under the influence when they SI.Eating Disorders - Eating disorders, such as anorexia or bulimia, are common in people who hurt themselves. like SI, eating disorders often have the same psychological effects. Sometimes SI and eating disorders occur simultaneously.History of Abuse - The majority of people who hurt themselves have suffered physical, sexual, or emotional abuse. But this doesn't mean that everyone who SI's has been abused. Or that everybody who has been abused will start hurting themselves.HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF SELF INJURYHistory of Psychological Treatment - Often SI-ers seek therapy to discover answers for their behavior. Therapy has proven a useful tool for some self-injurers but for some people who hurt themselves psychological treatment does not work out because of several reasons.First, is because psychologists sometimes ignore SI out of inexperience, ignorance, or feelings of digust. This is less true now than when I originally wrote this because of the far greater expanse of information on self-injurious behavior. Mental health professionals are more likely to know about self-injury than they would have ten years ago.Second, the reactions and strategies for SI by psychologists are often distasteful to the SI-er. They may demand that the SI-er stop hurting themselves or risk being sent to a psychiatric ward or hospital. This still sometimes happens but only if the self-injurer is at great risk or for other mental health issues. Psychologists are less likely to cart off a self-injurer to a psychiatrist than a few years ago because they are more aware of the issues surrounding self-injury and how to treat them.Finally, WHAT EXACTLY IS SELF INJURY?Self-Injury (SI) is the act of physically hurting yourself on purpose without the intent of commiting suicide. It is a method of coping during an emotionally difficult time that helps some people temporarily feel better because they have a way to physically express and release the tension and the pain they hold inside. In other people hurting themselves produces chemical changes in their bodies that make them feel happier and more relaxed.Five key components identify and define SI.One, SI is a harmful act done to yourself. Do not mistake lashing out in anger at others as SI.Two, SI is only done by yourself. If anyone else does something to you that causes pain this is not SI.Three, an act of SI must include some sort of physical violence. Emotionally punishing yourself (calling yourself a bitch or thinking you're stupid, ugly, etc.) is not SI.Four, an act of SI is not done with the intention of killing yourself. People who slit their wrists to kill themselves, even though they have harmed their body, are not SI-ing.Last, SI is done intentionally. Not accidentally, but with the intent purpose of hurting yourself. .*********I created this Self Injury Hope page for you guys...so you can realise you are NOT ALONE, and that you can overcome self injury. There is no wrong that cannot be made right again. So please be kinder to yourselves. I have faith in you guys, and I know you can overcome this. Remember, there is not only light at the end of the tunnel, but within it. DO NOT GIVE UP! Love You Corinna

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*IMPORTANT *PLEASE READ*There are other 'self injury awareness pages" around, but let me be clear: THIS IS THE ONLY ONE I ENDORSE.Please, guard your recovery, and make your recovery from self injury your number one priority. I know it will be difficult but I have so much faith in you guys. You CAN overcome self injury. Anyone who tells you that you cannot is LYING to you, and does not have your best intrests at heart. Nomatter what you have been through, please remember that there is not only light at the end of the tunnel, but within it... I invite you to add this page. This is a page which will encourage HEALING. And this is the only kind of page I could ever be associated with. All My Love x x x Corinna Fugate

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What it was like: My personal self injury story. "Cold" was a song I wrote about my own struggle with self injury. Above is the video for the song. Spirituality played a large part in my personal story, and healing, and I tried to show that through this video.My name is Corinna Fugate, and I am a recovering self injurer. I understand how important this problem is, and how serious it is because self injury completely took over my life at one time. I have been where some of you guys are right now, rock bottom, feeling there was no way out, but you can't give up. Some of you know I am a singer. My dad died when I was twelve years old. My self injury was mainly used to help me face my stage fright. Before my concerts I would go into the bathroom, and cut myself. It somehow helped end the stage fright. Then, I would put gauze on the wounds, and go out onstage, usually wearing long sleeves to cover up the cuts. Noone knew. This went on for two years. It became more than a coping mechanism...it became an addiction. I have fought long and hard to be at the place I am at now, I am finally feeling better, and I do not even have the urge to hurt myself anymore. I am dedicated to help raise awareness about self injury. Alot of people like to pretend it does not exist. Well, unfortunately, it does. When I made the choice to seek help, some of my so-called friends stopped being my friend. I would hear them whispering, and referring to me as "that crazy girl". Nothing could have hurt me more than that. To be judged so severely, and cruelly while I was trying to overcome something so personal was extremely difficult, but I did it. Quitting self injury was the hardest thing to do but also the most rewarding. I am in a healthy place now where I can use my story to help others, and raise awareness. I wrote a song about my experience with self injury, entitled "Cold", and the response I got from that was huge. I started getting letters from kids who were self injurers, who felt alone and misunderstood. They are the reason I made this page. I hope it provides strength, support, and understanding to those who need it. The main message here is, there is hope, and you truly are not alone.I do NOT want anyone to think self injury is glamorous, or "cool"...it isn't. It is something normal people battle each day. It is my hope that through this page, you may find some solace, support, and feel less alone. THERE IS NO WRONG THAT CANNOT BE MADE RIGHT AGAIN.Now, on certain "self injury awareness" pages, you'll see banners with razors dripping with blood...You do not have to worry about that here. I UNDERSTAND that images can trigger you to want to cut. I will guard this page, and keep it safe from those triggers.We as a self injury community must work together to help eachother be all that we can be....we are not statistics, we are people.We have to work hard, and be dedicated to getting better if life is ever going to be worth living again.I BELIEVE IN YOU GUYS!Corinna Fugate

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WELL KNOWN SELF INJURERS**MY PURPOSE IN POSTING THEIR STORIES IS NOT TO GLAMORISE SELF INJURY. THERE IS NOTHING GLAMOROUS ABOUT SELF INJURY. BUT WHEN YOU FEEL ALONE, SOMETIMES IT HELPS TO KNOW OTHERS HAVE BEEN THROUGH WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, AND HAVE RECOVERED. I HOPE THESE STORIES INSPIRE YOU GUYS TO FIGHT THE URGE TO CUT.AGAIN, THE SHARING OF THESE STORIES IS NOT MEANT TO "IDOLIZE" THESE INDUVIDUALS. IT IS TO SHOW YOU GUYS THAT YOU REALLY ARE NOT ALONE IN YOUR STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME SELF INJURY. THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE ABLE TO OVERCOME SELF INJURY, AND SO CAN YOU. PRINCESS DIANA Diana, Princess of Wales, was born on July 1, 1961 to the Viscount and Viscountess of Althorp. Diana's parents divorced when she was only six, her mother left her father for another man. During the rest of her childhood she went back and forth between two households. At age fourteen, she had described herself as hopeless. Diana began purging (bulimia) on her own wedding night, upon finding out that Prince Charles was in love with some other woman. Throughout her marriage she felt no control over her life, it was like a mirror of her own sad childhood. In a 1995 BBC television interview Princess Diana revealed to the world that she was a self-injurer. Diana said that she had cut her arms and legs, explaining, "You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help." "Diana: Her True Story," a biography written on the princess said that Diana had thrown herself into a glass cabinet at Kensington palace at various times, slashed her wrists with a razor, and cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer. Once, during a heated argument with Prince Charles, she picked up a penknife and cut her chest and thighs. Her husband still scorned her, and thought she was faking her problems, that it was melodramatic attention seeking, but he was wrong. During a fight on an airplane, Diana locked herself in the bathroom, cut her arms, and smeared the blood over the cabin seats and walls. In another incident Princess Diana threw herself down a flight of stairs Diana died tragically on August 31, 1997 in an automobile accident with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, while trying to evade the paparazzi. She was a courageous women, a giving and honest woman,she gave further prominence to the problem of self-injury. . ANGELINA JOLIE Angelina Jolie, the actresswho has starred in "Girl Interrupted" and "Tomb Raider," was born in 1975 to famous parents, both actors. In June 2001 Rolling Stone she said that during her very early teens she started "thinking about not wanting to be around. It was when the reality of life set in, the reality of surviving." Also, Angelina used to hurt herself during her early teens but stopped around the age of sixteen. She explained in a 2000 Maxim article, "You're young, you're crazy, you're in bed and you've got knives. So shit happens." But in 1999 Access Hollywood interview she explained it more in-depth, "I was..trying to feel something....I was looking at different things..thinking romantically about...about blood. I really hurt myself," and also said, "I was just....a kid. I was like 13, And, I was saying that it is not something that is cool. Its not cool. And I understand that it is a cry for help..." In her interview with Jane Magazine Angelina said "This person asked me about cutting myself when they saw a scar. I'm very open, but because of that, people think that they know everything about me, and, actually, they don't know anything. I say things that other people might go through. That's what artists should do - throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers for anything and see if people understand. But this person made the cutting sound interesting, like it was something I do now. [For the record, she did, but doesn't now, and doesn't endorse it.] And then I met somebody who said they'd seen movies of mine and then showed me where they had cut themselves. I had to explain, first off, not to do that. But it made me really fucking angry at the people who represent me in a way that would get that person to do that and show me. I don't understand why people would want to use something so damaging. It's like, let's make me look 'cool' and worry a lot of people in my family." Angelina has the Japanese symbol for "death" tattooed on her shoulder, and the Latin words, 'Quod me nutrit me destruit,' on her stomach, meaning "What nourishes me also destroys me." Angelina Jolie no longer hurts herself as a way of coping. Article and interviews indicate that she is a much happier and more content and fulfilled individual than she was earlier in her life. Angelina Jolie now uses her past heartbreaks, and self injury experience to raise awareness, and to help others. Jolie truly is an individual who has used her own sorrow as a way to help heal her spirit while helping other people! Jolie is one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, and a beautiful example of how we can all use our past to help make the future bright for others, and ourselves! . . FIONA APPLE Fiona Apple, famous singer/songwriter, was brutally raped outside of her mother's apartment when she was only twelve years old. For years after her rape she would check her closets to make sure no one was hiding in the house, and and Fiona was extremely nervous around older men. Fiona Apple still continues to have bad, violent dreams. Throughout her teen years and the months she spent making her album, Tidal, she suffered with an eating disorder, anorexia. Frustrated and hurt by the misunderstanding by the media of her eating disorder she attempted to explain it t them in a 1998 Rolling Stone interview, "I definitely had an eating disorder. What was really frustrating for me was that everyone though I was anorexic, and I wasn't. I was really depressed and self-loathing. For me, it wasn't about being thin, it was about getting rid of the bait attached to my body. A lot of it came from the self-loathing that came from being raped at the point of developing my voluptuousness. I just thought that if you had a body and if you had anything on you that would be grabbed, it would be grabbed. So I did purposely get rid of it." As a result of Fiona's eating disorder Fiona became practically skeletal. However,the media calously and cruelly wrote off her thinness as an attempt to "fit in." After her "Criminal" video from her album, "Tidal," came out Fiona began gaining weight on purpose. She wanted to prove the world that she doesn't care about being thin. In 1998 she said, "I mean, my plan is to gain enough weight that I can really be considered voluptuous, and do my 'First Taste' video. And I am preparing myself for what is going to happen. Because soon they will be saying that I'm fat. And it will hurt me." The first time Fiona Apple read a bad album review for her album 'Tidal' she began scratching her left wrist with the fingernails of her right hand. Fiona scratched all the way up her arm, there are still some dark patches and marks on her wrists, where she dug the deepest. Fiona said, "I have a little bit of a problem with that. It's a common thing." When asked if it made her feel better she simply replied, "It just makes you feel." Fiona also sometimes bites her lips as hard as she can, sometimes until they bleed. "And it'll be bleeding, and I can't stop, because it almost feels so good when I bite my lip." Trying to explain herself she said, "It was never, like, 'I am going to hurt myself and put myself in the hospital.' ...It is that I am going to give myself the pain that I need to feel to put the punctuation on this shit that's going inside." Fiona would get hurtful and upset when she feel that people think she's "crazy." Fiona Apple says, "The most annoying thing for me to hear about myself is that I'm trying to make people have a pity party for me. Everything that I've gone through has been dramatized by the people who've written about it, not by me. I'm just saying, 'This happened to me, this happened to a lot of people.' Why should I hide shit? Why does that give people a bad opinion of me? It's a reality. A lot of people do it. Courtney Love pulled me aside at a party and showed me her marks." Fiona Apple is now happier and more confident individual since she talked so frankly about her past self-injury and eating disorder to Rolling Stone. Articles in several magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today,and Blender mention different new sides of Fiona, such as her new take on life, a healthy weight gain and a new-found confidence in herself and her music. In a USA Today interview she said still "gets upset when she reads a particularly bad article about herself or review of her music "but she no longer self injurs as a result. Fiona Apple is a perfect example of someone who had alot to overcome, and who never gave up. . . TORI AMOSTori Amos, was born the daughter of a Methodist minister in Rockville, Maryland. Tori was always a free thinker. Tori's father recalls the first time Tori heard the Christmas story, she said, "Wow. I wonder what people would have done if Joseph came out of the manger and said, "It's a girl!" Amos herself was a child prodogy, and attenended the Peabody Conservatory. She was playing Mozart by age 5. Years went by, and Amos supported herself financially by performing in piano bars until the wee hours of the morning. In her early twenties, Amos was raped. This incident almost broke her, and began infusing her compositions , her songs with a true sense of pain, and understanding. When Tori released her album Little Earthquakes in 1992, it contained a song entiteled "Me And A Gun", which told the story of her rape. Amos, overwhelmed by the response to her song went on to co-found RAINN, the Rape And Incest National Network, America's ONLY free, confidential rape crisis hotline. On the subject of self injury, Tori Amos was quoted as saying,"People need to understand the self loathing that comes with being raped. People need to understand that it is the greatest breakage of divine law to mutilate yourself, as I have done." Tori Amos is a sparkling example of someone who went through a terrible, degrading experience, and used that experience to help others..JOHNNY DEPP In Johnny Depps' younger years, he struggled with drugs, as well as self injury. Johnny Depp was a "cutter". To this day, Depp has 7 visible scars on his forarem....a grim reminder of sadder, darker days. Depp used cutting as a coping mechanism to deal with his life, which was spiraling out of control. To quote Depp, "No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people see my movies, I still have the idea that I am a pale no-hoper."However, when Depp met current girlfriiend Vanessa Paradis(who Depp considers his wife), things began to change. The couple had a daughter, and the love of his family helped Depp overcome self injury. Depps' story is a good example of how love can truly heal a person.. COLIN FARREL Colin Farrel was born in 1976 in Ireland. He found school to be a bore and by age 13 he was already a heavy drinker. At age 15, Farrel was using drugs, any drug he could get his hands on. Then at age 16, Farrel had a breakdown infront of his mother, who rushed him in to see a doctor. The doctor gave Farrel a medication called Librium, and some other medicines that would make Farrel sick if he drank any alcohol. Farrel stopped drinking for 11 months.However, Farrel was still in a great deal of emotional pain, and turned to self injury, as a way to cope. Apparantly, Farrel had been a self injurer when he was a thirteen year old, and he never told anyone. He kept it a secret. Farrel told GQ,"I'm a hair puller-outter."Farrel revealed that at the tender age of thirteen he would tug the whole part of hair near his forehead, strand by strand. "What do you call it? Trichomania or something. There is some generic psychological term for it. I was addicted to it." Today Farrel has found himself through his craft, acting, and the arts. This has helped him cope with pain without resorting to self injury.

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DISCLAIMOR I am not a health-care professional or a doctor. This Myspace Page is not meant to be used as a substitution for professional help or advice. I created this page to educate, and to support people in their struggles to stop self injury. If you are a self injurer, I urge you to seek professional help immediately. Noone should ever feel too ashamed to reach out for help!This site is 100% ANTI-SELF INJURY. If you have come here to promote, glamorize, or encourage self injury, please leave this page. We are here because we want to get better, and we want to heal. Thank you Corinna Fugate This painting is entitled, Mariana In The South, by J.W. Waterhouse. I decided to post this here, along with the background of the Hall Of Mirrors from Versailles (in France) to emphasise that this page is not only an oasis of healing, but of deep soul searching, and facing one's own heart. In order to heal, one must be honest with ones' self, and be willing to look themselves in the eye...and see into their own heart.*"Remember...there is not only light at the end of the tunnel...but within it..."

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