Reply #12: I've know a couple of cutters [View All]

[ismnotwasm]

Ritual agony. It makes sense in a bizarre way to me. I escaped my personal pain in other (destructive) ways.

I know a heroin addict with is also a bulimic. She had a history of self-mutilation, but once the actual physical damage from bulimia started--heart and vascular damage etc.. She stopped. She's beautiful, talented, intelligent, yada yada yada. She will get off heroin, and get full into her bulimia, or vice versa.
There doesn't seem to be recovery for her, she's been in psychotherapy, counseling, 12-step programs, church, medicated, institutionalized--The core of self destruction doesn't seem to ever be reached. In her case, I'm betting sticking with a therapist with appropriate medication would work better than jumping around different "programs" She always goes to what doesn't work for her.

I haven't seen her in a couple of years, and I don't know if she's dead or alive. She's a "old" soul type. I think of her often. She's one of those people that it hurts to know and care about.