I think I understand what you mean and was actually considering creating a topic myself after reading repetive threads on the YN boards on these topics. Suicide, depression, and self-mutilation have almost become trendy.

It can go like this:First of all, if you do drugs, well then obviously you have to dress in black. If you dress in black, then obviously you have to be depressed. And if you're depressed, then obviously you have to cut yourself and so on. It's like this imagined cycle that can start at different points and can continue on and on.

It's like people do these things just to do them...not because they're in serious pain or it's actually them. I think a lot of them do it for attention but I also think a lot of them are either bored and have nothing better to do or they want to follow what they think is cool. Either way it's a ridiculous way to get what they want.

There are people who are clinically depressed and feel a need to cut themselves or try to commit suicide because that's the way they feel. The people I think you're talking about are just putting on an act.

Am I on the right track?

DWM: meaning that some people are just convincing themselves that they are. i've seen a girl who calls herself depressed but she cuts hearts into her arms, and she claims to be a cutter. see?

freemoredeath: i'm just making an example of some poeple and what they do. the're not all antagonists, i'm proving a point.

yogore: it's a point i'm trying to make. it's an idea. look, i'm not trying to target anyone unlike you, i'm showing that that's what some people do.


Despite some of the questionable responses, seems like some of you are on the right track(in my book anywaysS)

*b****ing them

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What are the *'s? Rather confused...

Well, whether your *****ing the out or helpiung them, they're still getting what they want: attention.

If they are "doing it for attention" as you put it, isn't that a bit more reason to give them more attention?

"many people have legitimate reasons for that"

what are legitimate reasons to you?
I don't think you can really know if they have legitimate reasons or not. From the outside it may seem like they have no reason to be depressed, they've got the "perfect life" or whatever, but you can't possibly know what's really going on with them. Looks can be deceiving, if you know what I mean.

You can't decide to be depressed. It's all in the head. I think there's something to the whole "Chemical Imbalince" thing. They just need to find a better way of saying it, that's all. But anyway, people yes, may put themselves in a victimizing situation, but not all people who are depressed think that way. They're just... sad, all the time. It's not their fault. And in that way, I suppose they could be victims. Should I say we? I don't look at myself as a victim.