Young girls self-harming at 3 times the rate of boys… They aren’t sad enough to end it all, just enough to cut themselves…
The poor, attention deprived emos have to turn to cutting themselves because their parents are to busy to look at their MySpace pages...
Nobody could possibly understand the pain that emo cutters endure on a daily basis. Not you, not us, not Jebus.
Despite this, recently released figures show a sharp increase in the number of Australian girls aged between 13 and 19 who are admitted to hospital for “overdoses, slashed limbs and other forms of self-harm”.
So you’d have to assume that the actual suicide rate for the demographic would have gone up too, right? Well, no actually. The suicide rate has fallen in Australia for young girls every year for the last 10 years.
Head of Monash University’s Centre for Developmental Psychiatry, Bruce Tonge (piercing) told SMH that “Self harm is a cry for help, a communication where other communications have failed.”
Communication, people. For depressed a teenager whom nobody understands, that translates as MySpace.
Another victim (and perpetrator) of self-harm tries to grab the attention of her parents...
So when MySpace is down, or teenage girls are unable to customise their page into satisfactorily depressing (and unique) colours, society fails them and they turn to the razor.
Let’s face it, Australia, who’s going to read all the MySpace pages if we don’t have self-harming teenage emos doing it?
Not us, that’s for sure…
Tags: ADHD, Attention Seeking, Emo, Genuine Needs, MySpace Kids, Sadness, Self-Harm, Tragedy
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March 26th, 2009 at 11:03 am
Many people use self-harm as suicide prevention. I think you would do well to actually research self injury; since your opinions on it, and its relation to emo and attention seeking, are so strong. I doubt it would change your mind, but some research further than websites that say “emo = self harm = attention seeking” as the full extent of their information… Doesn’t cut it for me. Excuse the pun.
I realise I may have formed preconceptions about your knowledge on the subject; and that this blog is apparently intended to be humorous, by the way.
I’m not judging, just suggesting you have some knowledge on a subject before ripping it to shreds.
Regards.
March 26th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
Gee, thanks Charlotte. In fact, you have completely changed our collective mind.
And don’t worry about any pre-conceptions you have of our knowledge (which is VAST and INFORMED), clearly looking at the context of this article in terms of the other stories on our website we are very serious about this and all topics we write/rant about.
From now on we will only be nice to emos and people who want to top themselves – the cutters included.
They are all completely valid members of the human race and deserve to be “understood” in far greater detail, just as Darwin’s laws of natural selection would dictate.
Oh… that’s if they choose to remain in the gene pool…
August 10th, 2009 at 9:06 am
I love the idiocy in this blog.
Is there really any need for this kind of thing when you clearly have no idea about it? I mean, seriously, people who are suffering/suffered hardship and find their only way to feel mildly better is to harm themselves don’t deserve this kind of shit.
Try being reasonable sometime?
August 10th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Awesome comment there,
We actually offer a sarcasm management package in which we can teach you how to recognise, use and interpret it.
Thanks for “loving” our idiocy… and for telling us to change it at the same time.
You’ve cleared up our ignorance just by leaving a confused little comment on this blog – we promise to never do anything that may offend you again (if you could just email us a list of everything that offends you, we’ll get right onto it).