Posted by Jost on September 30, 2006, at 23:31:14
In reply to update 24 hrs later SI **trigger*, posted by Lindenblüte on September 30, 2006, at 18:32:35
I'm glad you took my advice (if I do say so myself..if I may be allowed to), because I hate to think of you picking at your face, which I know will hurt later.
And your cuticles. I went through a spate of the cuticle thing-- I never thought of it as SI, but maybe it was.
A couple of my cuticles never recovered. I remember it felt good while I did it, but hurt so much later. And now I look at them and think, grrrr-- why did you do that?
I know sometimes I start looking at something and get transfixed by the awfulness of it and necessity of doing something-- which often aggravates the situation.
It's so fascinating to hear that you find yourself going into the bathroom and trying to put the light on. Do you ever know what stimulated you to go in that time? Interesting also that the lower lights are like an alert that you're doing something, which you might not noticed until you were doing it, when you don't think about it so much as get invested in the immediate satisfaction of doing it.
Anyway, I don't want Linden to be having scars on her face. Not at all.
Which doesn't mean that I think SI is bad, in the sense of immoral, only inthe sense that it somehow hurts when I hear that someone has done it. But I do know that when it's done, it doesn't necessarily hurt, but can feel somehow good. So I'll try to remember that, too.
Jost
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