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sorry for my lack of action as of late, i've been sick, but i was just browsing deviant art, when i found a stamp that was somehow related to self-harm. it wasn't the stamp that annoyed me, but there were hundreds of comments on the stamp that had people referring to some self-harmers as 'emo cutters'. i was just sitting here going, "W - T - F?".
reading those comments, and having dealt with people who have stupid ideas like this in my life before, i decided to make this stamp.

people rarely understand self-harm, and those who think they understand it, tend to be wrong. self-harm doesn't make you emo, and it doesn't necessarily mean you have a mental illness. it doesn't mean you're sad or upset, or even unhappy with your life. the reason someone self-harms is different from person to person. you can't just make assumptions about why someone is hurting themselves. of course there are a few people who will self-harm for the attention, but you've got to realise that there is a reason they feel the need to resort to such drastic means to gain some attention.

the majority of self-harmers do not want you to know about that part of their life. most self-harmers don't want to die, so there is never a reason to assume that they do. for a lot of people who self-harm, it grows to be an addiction and a mental illness in itself. it becomes something that they will live with for the rest of their lives. self-harm is a progressive illness.

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