is this depression or attention?

i think it started off as attenton seeking bt it has slowly developed.

i agree with this chick!

at first...it was following your friend...and slowly it turned into a real depression...i say stop hanging out with that friend...lose the blade and dont listen to dying music...but this happened to me i started cutting..and my friend followed...her post is down further...but just dont its not a good way to release ur pain

You felt left out but unfortunately it has developed into the real thing. Ditch what ever you use, find something better to listen to or don't listen to music at all. Go out and have a fun time.

I agree. You really need to start a different trend, slowly cutting is becoming cool. "Everyone's doing it". Let's not making something so negative.. so "in".

ok it's probably not attention because this happened to me too. my friend started and i was already pretty depressed at the time too so i thought hmmm this mite help again because i had done it a year before only twice but i stopped. how you showed people was probably a cry for help. like "don't you see this bitch? help me.." if you cut for attention then you wouldn't want to do it because it would hurt to much. cutting is a stupid way of releasing the pain within. but it isn't good in the long run or even the short run for that matter. you ARE depressed and if a shrink says so then you must be...

Urm only a professsional can really say if you have depression or not, you might just have the symtoms of depression but not full blown depression yet. Jus trust what ur psych says.

Its best jus to get some therapy and try and sort it out asap, cos often the thing with depression is that the longer you slip into depression, the longer you have depression, the harder it is to get rid of because it just becomes part of you and rules your life (not in all cases but v often) so best to get sorted asap.

omg! the same thing happened to me. My friend cut once and let me easily find out than i tried it and showed her my cuts every day but know i cant stop and i hide it from everyone.Plus my cuts are much deeper now. I hate it

it is like that. its a very serious form of depression..as i was told myself. shrinks try and help me but none help. neither do the depression medication im on. its like a fad cutting is in some people. because one friend does it, another does.. i dont like cutting myself but i go blank with tears and in the end, just like you, end up cutting 3 or four times, both on my wrists and legs.. it scares me but still i do it. i wish i could stop, but its sorta becomes an addiction

When will you kids learn that cutting is not something to be played with. It's stuff like this that pisses me off. Mainly because I did the exact same thing, my own stupidity gets to me. I saw my friend cut, and I wanted to know why she thought it felt so good, I had no intention of continuing it, just letting her truly see what she is doing. She didn't see it that way, and I got hooked into it. I'm not saying I wasn't depressed, because I was, clinically, diagnosed by a doctor and everything. But I should never have been stupid enough to do it because I wanted to help a friend. Think of yourselves before others, for once. Its actually funny, because it started out as a selfless act and became a selfish habit. For all you who say that cutting is not selfish, in most ways it is. Not trying to be rude, but it is. Involunterily. At the exact same time it's self damaging, giving you the illusion that its not selfish at all. But it's both, and thats where it gets you.

In response to the actual origional post and topic, I do not beleive in attention seeking, to an extent. You may be letting people see the way you are, for attention seeking reasons, but that does not mean that you are manifesting problems purely for those reasons. And I must say that if that just so happens to be the case, you have serious problems anyway. Either way, what you are feeling is a problem, that can probably be helped with therapy and psychiatrists. Talk to a doctor about it.
~*Freak*~

yea i started cutting adn a few of my friends tryed it but they realized that they weren't really depressed adn this kinda made me more depressed because i amde my friends cut so yea i dunno lol i just thought of that when i read this post
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