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Cornsay, D8, GB

Why it that when i hurt myself on purpose, it doent hurt as much as when i hurt myself by accident?

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Nightowl 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 11 months ago (37 minutes after post)

I’ve wondered the same thing…maybe because you expect it?

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Cape Town, 11, ZA | 1 year, 11 months ago (50 minutes after post)

when you hurt yourself by accident, it is the pain impulse that is send to your brain that causes it to react by sending clotting agents and sensitive pain relievers. if you do it on purpose your brain is already standing by with all the essential coping stuff

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 11 months ago (2 hours, 17 minutes after post)

truu truu. good point.
as for when, today i got a paper cut. lol!

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 11 months ago (3 hours, 59 minutes after post)

the same reason you cant tickle yourself. but others can

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Sunderland, N6, GB | 1 year, 10 months ago (4 weeks, 1 day after post)

I was going to say adreneline

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

because you brace your self for it.

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

Commander Ikari wrote:
because you brace your self for it.

oh. bad post lol. you’ll think bad of me! lol

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

Well, You were looking through mine, I thought I might as well do the same.

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

lol. its not fair. all of yours are closed! lol. i though this post was long forgotten. id actually forgotten about it…

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

Course I close my post, I cover my tracks!

Seemed to work too. :)

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

you cover your track but like always, the evidence it was there still remains lol. i just skimmed back through some of my old posts and i cant remember making half of them lol. i saw one where i was talking to someone im now not aloud to talk to cos if i do ill get banned. lol. looking back on the older posts brings back memories of me and what i was like 6 months ago. scary! ive changed and ive only just realised how much!

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

Little-Dreamer-Colle wrote:
you cover your track but like always, the evidence it was there still remains lol. i just skimmed back through some of my old posts and i cant remember making half of them lol. i saw one where i was talking to someone im now not aloud to talk to cos if i do ill get banned. lol. looking back on the older posts brings back memories of me and what i was like 6 months ago. scary! ive changed and ive only just realised how much!

And have you changed for the better?

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

i think so. have you seen most of them older posts!? ‘my new years resolutioon is to stop cutting’ - yep! i think its for the better. i remember why i made that resolution as well…

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

Little-Dreamer-Colle wrote:
i think so. have you seen most of them older posts!? ‘my new years resolutioon is to stop cutting’ - yep! i think its for the better. i remember why i made that resolution as well…

Glad to see you’ve gotten better.

Have you keep to it?

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Cornsay, D8, GB | 1 year, 5 months ago (6 months, 2 weeks after post)

yeah. mostly. except once when i was having a relly bad month lol. so once. but other than that yeah. i made that resolution because i was really annoyed that i had the marks on my arms on christmas.

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