Written in Blood

CNN.com - A young woman comes to grips with 'cutting' - March 11, 2002

Just wanted to Blog this. It's interesting to see this getting coverage, but I hate the format they are using. One girl's struggle to highlight all of the people who have delt with this.

"We don't know how to verbalize our pain, so we write it on our bodies"

All pain is written on your body - that's not what this is about. What this is about is being able to feel. Something - anything. The pain makes things real again, when there is no reality. It reminds you your real, that you exist, no matter how distant the world feels.

When the numbness comes, when the only thing you can feel is the fingernails digging into the palm of your hand so hard it bleeds, and nothing else feels real to you but that one thing that brings you back. When the anger and rage washes out everything else, and all that is left is the numbness - sometimes pain is the only thing that is real.

Ok, enough of that dive into my warped mind. I havent done this in a long time, and I was never as bad as some people get to be. I was wise enough not to leave scars.