Cut..CUT..=Yes/No?!

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Have you ever harmed yourself?

  • Yes, and I am a sister

    Votes: 28 22.0%

  • No, and I am a sister

    Votes: 56 44.1%

  • Yes, and I am a brother

    Votes: 5 3.9%

  • No, and I am a brother

    Votes: 38 29.9%
  • Total voters
    127
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Sorry, but people that harm themselves are rarely in suicidal mode.
 
:sl: every1... i hant been on this web in agez.. anyway.. this cuting buisness yeh it is a common thing ppl do.. i think its due to distress like a brother said.. n they dnt knw ah else to do etc.. n feel like no1'z der for them etc.. buh its sad if we dnt help them and juss diss em coz thats only gna make it worse..
 
It's strange. Of all the people I've met through my life, only one had tried cutting herself. Then I go in here and suddenly everyone is doing it.

If I may be frank, does muslims (muslim girls from the poll I guess) have something to warrant cutting themselves which other people do not?
 
^ Then why the abnormal poll?

Just because it isn't allowed doesn't mean people will not do it if they're frustrated about something. So maybe, just maybe, islam has something in it that causes this frustration. Yes korrelation does not equate causation, but the possibility is there.
 
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So maybe, just maybe, islam has something in it that causes this frustration.
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Or maybe, people don't study Islaam properly, and see the peace it can bring, and they end up cutting themselves?

Anyway, I don't want this thread to turn into an Islam bashing thread. If you wish to dicuss this topic, please open another thread.

Thank you for your co-operation. :)
 
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ZarathustraDK said:
It's strange. Of all the people I've met through my life, only one had tried cutting herself. Then I go in here and suddenly everyone is doing it.

If I may be frank, does muslims (muslim girls from the poll I guess) have something to warrant cutting themselves which other people do not?
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Your analysis is flawed, you haven't factored in whether people are more likely to admit it on-line then they are to admit it to your face. I went to a Muslim high school and have HEAPS of Muslim female friends and I don't know anyone who has engaged in self harm.

Furthermore, in order for any comparison to be made you need to have another poll for non-Muslims only, preferably from a similar age group so you can compare. The statistics may very well be the same and it may not be a Muslim women thing at all - perhaps the rates are higher in all women compared to men.

Also, keep in mind that about twice as many women as men voted which is why it seems like a huge difference.

As for your implication that there is something in Islam that is causing this - again, very shallow. There are many other factors, for example, social issues. Muslims are a minority in western countries and face a lot of issues as a result. The apparently higher rates of self harm may be due to living in a society that does not accept you, not because of the religion it self (although this is irrelevant because it has not yet been established that Muslim women are more likely to do it anyway).
 
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ZarathustraDK said:
It's strange. Of all the people I've met through my life, only one had tried cutting herself. Then I go in here and suddenly everyone is doing it.

If I may be frank, does muslims (muslim girls from the poll I guess) have something to warrant cutting themselves which other people do not?
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what makes u think that only muslim girls have voted on this..?

remember, all the people uve met in ur life cannot come to terms with a poll on an internet forum..

this is the 'world wide web'...

maybe u live in happy land:P
 
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I think this problem exists in both Muslims and Non Muslims...
 
Being Muslim – having self harm banned in Islam – doesn’t exactly cross out all possibilities of DOING it. It is emotional pain that results in self harm, so it hardly even has anything to do with religion. We are better at avoiding it though, because of our faith, but it doesn’t necessarily mean we’re not going to be able to completely avoid it because of it.
Sometimes you’re at that point where you don’t really know WHAT to do; you’re just in blind pain. The first thing that you do is vent… You punch things. You may scratch yourself. You’ll obviously cry. You might pray. And if it’s bad enough, you may result to cutting yourself. The reason is because it lets your emotional pain that nobody sees permanently scar on the outside.
You’re not going to think, “ohhh it’s haram I cannot do it.” No, you don’t really chooooose to do it. You just do it. It hurts when you’re at that point of pain that you just do things without thinking. If you think before cutting, then there won’t really be much cutting, now would there… ;)
I know this is an old as hell thread but I just thought I’d post my input on it… :D
 
I've never understood why people self harm, the thought of someone inflicting pain to their own self makes me wince.

Is self harm an illness?
 
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I've never understood why people self harm, the thought of someone inflicting pain to their own self makes me wince.

Is self harm an illness?
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People do it as an attempt to eliminate emotional pain by showing it on the outside. It’s not something you can really understand until you stoop to such pain....and possibly lack of faith XD
 
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I've never understood why people self harm, the thought of someone inflicting pain to their own self makes me wince.

Is self harm an illness?
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It seems to be more a symptom of depression.
 
I've spoken to people who take part in self harm and when questioned as to why they do it, their answers were scary. The teenage period is really hard fir some people by the sounds of it...
 
ive never understood why this was haram. people like to quote the verse

" make not your own hands contribute to (your) destruction..."

things like smoking i understand, but its not like cutting yourself will lead to your eventual death or anything. also suppose you like scratching your skin to make pictures or because it feels nice (like i did when i was a kid lol) then isnt that also self harm?
 
looks like the sisters need to invest in punchbags to take out all their frustrations on,
i hung a large one on the tree in the garden and i can assure you it really leaves you relieved,
i even feel like stopping smoking after a good half hour or an hour with it
then again, smoking when stressed could be a form of self harm,
and to think i voted no
 
self harm could be a sign of many pschiatric disorders.

Depression, probably, if they want to commit suicide.

in other disorders, ppl harm themselves not because they want to die, but because harming themselves makes them feel good about themselves. For exampel Bulimia nervosa. Or for example borderline personality disorder.
It could be psychosis and schizphrenia too if these people have delisions or hallucinations which force them to harm themselves.

OR it could be just EMO emotional love phase that ppl go through when they are stupid teenagers in high school and listen to lady gaga.
 
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