Why I Cut Myself, and What Helped Me to Stop
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"It was like releasing water through a dam. It felt like if I didn’t cut, that my mind would crack, with devastating results ..."
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Why Mental Illness Does Not Excuse Your Behaviour Towards Others
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"People often excuse a behaviour if there are extenuating circumstances.
We tend to forgive, downplay or simply ignore it, because we realise that the person doing the behaviour is going through something significant and therefore are ‘not themselves’ at the moment..."
Read MoreHow Every Tweet is Changing You – Without Your Consent
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"It is very hard to un-hear something. Once you have been exposed to an idea, it is impossible to remove the stain of that idea out of your consciousness.
You can try and counter it, to disprove it, to ignore it or to fill your mind with other thoughts. Regardless, once it is in, it is there forever. Whether or not you asked to have that piece of information is irrelevant..."
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