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Faded But Not Totally Gone

Mar 29, 2009 13:00

On the news this week there was a story about a young girl that had been bitten in the face by an alligator. The jaws clamped down literally over one of her eyes and down to her cheekbone. But in looking at her, her scars are minimal. Extraordinary ( Read more... )

emotional health, self-injury, scars, sense of self, cutting, recovery

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fakesmiles14 March 29 2009, 19:30:29 UTC

I always had a hard time dealing with my scars fading but for a different reason. I thought more on the lines of "if my scars disappear maybe none of this has ever really happened" They are also signs that I've been through hell and have survived. I always went to great lengths to hide my scars from people so no one would ask. If they asked I would lie. I've also noticed the two people thing. When I would cut I was not the same person people knew. I was not the calm happy person I usually was. It's like two completely different sides. I can even tell from my poetry. Some of it is really dark which is the stuff I wrote when I was in that self injury mood I could never write like that when I wasn't in that mood.