
Have you been hospitalized for SI? Did it help?

   [INLINE] Quote added in last update (22 September 98)
   
     [INLINE] No. I was hospitalized for suicide, though. I didn't
     attempt it, though they thought I was because I ran away and said I
     didn't want to live with my family! I hate that place I still have
     nightmares about it and I am terrified of going back I
     hyperventilate at the thought of the hospital. [female, age 17, 2
     years SIB, taking HS and college classes]
     
     [INLINE] Yes, [for] cutting and all it did was make it worse b/c no
     one knows what the hell they're doing. We self-cutters are on a
     different level; we are real, not fake, and we go to extremes to
     feel real. Other people just don't have the guts to [understand]
     because they are weak and stupid, very stupid [. . .] You can
     change your stupidity; it's just most people are too lazy. I think
     I suffer from non-understanding and if people would listen to
     people all of these disorders would be eliminated. Talking and
     understanding is the only way, not meds or ignorant doctors, nurses
     or therapists. Was I abused? Yes, severely as some might say, [but]
     I feel like well, it just never is gonna go away in my head. I just
     guess I will work on it, all of it, in due time. [female, age 24, 5
     years SIB, three years of college]
     
   
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