- Joined
- Jan 16, 2017
The scars look real to me, but none of them really look like they were inflected with the intention of causing grave bodily harm. She's teetering on the threshold of relatively superficial scars and rather significant, demanding-medical-attention scars. As for the undersides of her arms, depending on how much body fat you have, you can make rather large incisions without hitting any major veins or arteries, but there's always the risk.
The thing that's most impressive is the fact that she's avoided a life-threatening infection. Bacteria is everywhere, including MRSA. The fact that she hasn't gotten an infection is a pretty decent reflection of her desire to continue living.
I'm pretty shocked by the progression of her self-harm as well. If she's been receiving professional help for 7 years, she should have worked out some decent coping strategies, found the right medication cocktail, found a therapist she connects with. After 7 years of fighting mental illness, most people with any degree of functionality see progress. She hasn't progressed. Her self-harm has spread and worsened, and she doesn't seem that bothered by it either. She doesn't seem to be the slightest bit ashamed by her behavior, like relapses (if she even takes a hiatus) and hospitalizations. People with legitimate mental illnesses and struggles with self-harm are rather ashamed of it, especially when they're not doing well. Even if the self-harm continues during professional help, they're likely to restrict it to unseen areas and will harm over old scars. Emily hasn't done this at all, quite the opposite. She seems to be on a quest to cover as much skin as possible in scars, which seems like a cry for attention more than anything else.
Are all her Facebook posts related to her mental health and self-harm status? People with legitimate diseases and disorders most often want to feel as close to "normal" as they can so they try to minimize the time they spend actively thinking and talking about their health issues.
The thing that's most impressive is the fact that she's avoided a life-threatening infection. Bacteria is everywhere, including MRSA. The fact that she hasn't gotten an infection is a pretty decent reflection of her desire to continue living.
I'm pretty shocked by the progression of her self-harm as well. If she's been receiving professional help for 7 years, she should have worked out some decent coping strategies, found the right medication cocktail, found a therapist she connects with. After 7 years of fighting mental illness, most people with any degree of functionality see progress. She hasn't progressed. Her self-harm has spread and worsened, and she doesn't seem that bothered by it either. She doesn't seem to be the slightest bit ashamed by her behavior, like relapses (if she even takes a hiatus) and hospitalizations. People with legitimate mental illnesses and struggles with self-harm are rather ashamed of it, especially when they're not doing well. Even if the self-harm continues during professional help, they're likely to restrict it to unseen areas and will harm over old scars. Emily hasn't done this at all, quite the opposite. She seems to be on a quest to cover as much skin as possible in scars, which seems like a cry for attention more than anything else.
Are all her Facebook posts related to her mental health and self-harm status? People with legitimate diseases and disorders most often want to feel as close to "normal" as they can so they try to minimize the time they spend actively thinking and talking about their health issues.
