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Self mutilation! |
The new youth craze: self mutilation
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Posted: February 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up.
"Cutting" refers to self-mutilation – using knives, razor blades or
even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body – and it's
spreading to a school near you.
Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney
Love and the late Princess Diana. On the Internet, there are scores of
websites (with titles such as "Blood Red," "Razor Blade Kisses" and
"The Cutting World") featuring "famous self-injurers," photos of
teenagers' self-inflicted wounds and descriptions of their techniques.
The destructive practice has been depicted in films targeting young
girls and teens (such as "Thirteen"). There is even a new genre of
music – "emo" – associated with promoting the cutting culture.
In Britain, health-care researchers estimate that one in 10 teenagers
engages in addictive self injury. According to psychiatrist Gary
Litovitz, medical director of Dominion Hospital in Falls Church, Va.,
the growing trend here in America has alarmed school guidance
counselors around the country.
It's not just delinquents and social misfits who are doing it. A
concerned parent sent me the following letter recently:
I just found out this week that my 14-year-old daughter is a "cutter."
She has a 4.0 average, 8th grade, goes to a good school, and is
well-liked by all who know her. She is popular, has two homes (mine
and her dad's) with supportive, loving families in each. Her own
friends cut, too: four of them that I know of now between the ages of
11 and 14 ... [a]s do her two cousins, ages 11 and 15.
My daughter cuts herself with a safety pin. I found this out on her
own personal website, which I discovered she had been hiding on a
hidden account she used at another relative's home. She had links to
webrings about cutting, suicide and broken hearts as well as images
and poetry. Her friends all feature cutting-suicide links, icons and
song lyrics as well.
The counselor at her school told me this: At her middle school, "70
percent of the kids here cut or know someone who does. It's cool, a
trend, and acceptable. Boys do it as well, but are more public about
it ... you're not even the first parent this week: you're the third,
and just today a girl received stitches in the hospital for cutting
herself so bad."
While many public schools deny the problem exists, public health
advocacy groups are warning medical professionals of the cutting craze
– and have even declared March 1 "Self Injury Awareness Day."
This madness would not be as popular as it is among young people if
not for the glamorizing endorsement of nitwit celebrities such as
twentysomething actress Christina Ricci. Several of the websites I
researched highlighted the same quotes from Ricci describing her
experiences with self-injury:
In an Us magazine interview, for example, Ricci blabbed about various
scars on her hands and arms: "I wanted to see if I can handle pain.
It's sort of an experiment to see if I can handle pain." In another
interview, she described putting cigarettes out on her arm and
answered questions about whether it hurt: "No. You get this endorphin
rush. You can actually faint from pain. It takes a second, a little
sting, and then it's like you really don't feel anything. It's
calming, actually."
And in Rolling Stone, Ricci prattled about scratching her forearms
with her nails and soda-can tops: "It's like having a drink. But it's
quicker. You know how your brain shuts down from pain? The pain would
be so bad, it would force my body to slow down, and I wouldn't be as
anxious. It made me calm."
It may be all fun and games for a Hollywood starlet like Ricci, but
her mindless stunts have inspired countless young girls to carve
themselves into a bloody stupor. Hollyweird strikes again.
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Self mutilation points to demonic worship/witchcraft especially for
women who are more susceptible to the influences of the devil. Eve was
turned first by Satan and fell into sin and with Eve's help Adam then
also fell.
The world has turned from hating that practices to continuingly
glamorising witchcraft which will inevitably lead to more self
mutilations as more of the naive take up that practise and start
walking on that road to hell.
The God of Israel is the only God, the rest of these so called gods
and goddesses are nothing more than rebellious angels and demons
destined for the lake of fire on judgement day along with humans that
follow them!
1 Kings 18:20-39 (NRSV)
Elijah's Triumph over the Priests of Baal
20 So Ahab sent to all the Israelites, and assembled the prophets at
Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah then came near to all the people, and said,
"How long will you go limping with two different opinions? If the Lord
is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him." The people did not
answer him a word. 22 Then Elijah said to the people, "I, even I only,
am left a prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets number four hundred
fifty. 23 Let two bulls be given to us; let them choose one bull for
themselves, cut it in pieces, and lay it on the wood, but put no fire
to it; I will prepare the other bull and lay it on the wood, but put
no fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god and I will
call on the name of the Lord; the god who answers by fire is indeed
God." All the people answered, "Well spoken!" 25 Then Elijah said to
the prophets of Baal, "Choose for yourselves one bull and prepare it
first, for you are many; then call on the name of your god, but put no
fire to it." 26 So they took the bull that was given them, prepared
it, and called on the name of Baal from morning until noon, crying, "O
Baal, answer us!" But there was no voice, and no answer. They limped
about the altar that they had made. 27 At noon Elijah mocked them,
saying, "Cry aloud! Surely he is a god; either he is meditating, or he
has wandered away, or he is on a journey, or perhaps he is asleep and
must be awakened." 28 Then they cried aloud and, as was their custom,
they cut themselves with swords and lances until the blood gushed out
over them. 29 As midday passed, they raved on until the time of the
offering of the oblation, but there was no voice, no answer, and no
response.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come closer to me"; and all
the people came closer to him. First he repaired the altar of the Lord
that had been thrown down; 31 Elijah took twelve stones, according to
the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the
Lord came, saying, "Israel shall be your name"; 32 with the stones he
built an altar in the name of the Lord. Then he made a trench around
the altar, large enough to contain two measures of seed. 33 Next he
put the wood in order, cut the bull in pieces, and laid it on the
wood. He said, "Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt
offering and on the wood." 34 Then he said, "Do it a second time"; and
they did it a second time. Again he said, "Do it a third time"; and
they did it a third time, 35 so that the water ran all around the
altar, and filled the trench also with water.
36 At the time of the offering of the oblation, the prophet Elijah
came near and said, "O Lord, God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, let it
be known this day that you are God in Israel, that I am your servant,
and that I have done all these things at your bidding. 37 Answer me, O
Lord, answer me, so that this people may know that you, O Lord, are
God, and that you have turned their hearts back." 38 Then the fire of
the Lord fell and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones,
and the dust, and even licked up the water that was in the trench. 39
When all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and said, "The
Lord indeed is God; the Lord indeed is God."
End
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| User: "dwacon" |
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| Title: Re: Self mutilation! |
26 Feb 2005 02:25:50 AM |
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"martus" <marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:511a49a.0502242256.483f71fe@posting.google.com...
The new youth craze: self mutilation
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Posted: February 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up.
"Cutting" refers to self-mutilation - using knives, razor blades or
even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body - and it's
spreading to a school near you.
Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney
Love and the late Princess Diana.
So what do we do to stop it?
--
During the Passion of the Christ
there was a NAKED BOY running around...
http://www.cafepress.com/powerpress
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| User: "stone" |
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26 Feb 2005 05:25:14 PM |
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dwacon wrote in message ...
"martus" <marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:511a49a.0502242256.483f71fe@posting.google.com...
The new youth craze: self mutilation
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Posted: February 23, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up.
"Cutting" refers to self-mutilation - using knives, razor blades or
even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body - and it's
spreading to a school near you.
Actresses Angelina Jolie and Christina Ricci did it. So did Courtney
Love and the late Princess Diana.
So what do we do to stop it?
You could try excorcism.
Mark 5:2 And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him
out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Mark 5:3 Who had [his] dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind
him, no, not with chains:
Mark 5:4 Because that he had been often bound with fetters and chains, and
the chains had been plucked asunder by him, and the fetters broken in
pieces: neither could any [man] tame him.
Mark 5:5 And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the
tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
--
During the Passion of the Christ
there was a NAKED BOY running around...
http://www.cafepress.com/powerpress
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| User: "JCB" |
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25 Feb 2005 08:35:08 AM |
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"martus" <marttila69@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:511a49a.0502242256.483f71fe@posting.google.com...
The new youth craze: self mutilation
Have you heard of "cutting"? If you're a parent, you'd better read up.
"Cutting" refers to self-mutilation - using knives, razor blades or
even safety pins to deliberately harm one's own body - and it's
spreading to a school near you.
<short snip>
I just found out this week that my 14-year-old daughter is a "cutter."
She has a 4.0 average, 8th grade, goes to a good school, and is
well-liked by all who know her. She is popular, has two homes (mine
and her dad's) with supportive, loving families in each. Her own
friends cut, too: four of them that I know of now between the ages of
11 and 14 ... [a]s do her two cousins, ages 11 and 15.
My daughter cuts herself with a safety pin. I found this out on her
own personal website, which I discovered she had been hiding on a
hidden account she used at another relative's home. She had links to
webrings about cutting, suicide and broken hearts as well as images
and poetry. Her friends all feature cutting-suicide links, icons and
song lyrics as well.
<bigger snip>
I work with middle school children and I will attest to the fact that 'cutting'
is becoming more and more popular. Children who cut (and adults for that
matter) have serious emotional problems and are crying out for love and
acceptance. They fall into two broad categories;
Those who do it in the open and expect to get caught, these children usually
still have enough value in themselves to know that it is wrong and cut
themselves in public and in places where it will be seen.
Those who do their best to hide it. Here cutting is done in private places and
the cuts are made in places that won't be seen by others. These children are in
SERIOUS need! In a case like you have described I would recommend COUNSELING
for the ENTIRE FAMILY. This would be a symptom of long term relational
situations and serious misconceptions about who a person is. Being a Christian
(and I assume by your posts you are) it may also mean reevaluating exactly what
you believe (and how you live that belief) about your standing in Christ.
God Bless and My prayers are with you and your family,
JCB
P.S. I realize that this post may seem a bit harsh for me, but this is a serious
issue and you can't delay in getting help.
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