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User Comments
Psyke.org generates a lot of email - positive and negative. Here is
a small sample of what our guests have to say:
Hi! Just saying well done for a great site, it's great that for once we have
a non-biased resource to know that there are lots of people who SI.
sian
Wow
Gweneth
I am relatively new to navigating the internet. I have been plagued by
self-injury for many years and have been surfing through various websites
and web pages for information, connections, and so on. I felt compelled to
write you a note because this site is the best designed and most
well-organized site I have visited in a few months of surfing the net.
Congratulations. You are doing a fine job. Thank you for a site that is
easy to navigate, clear, and concise. Reading the material on these sites is
an intense experience, particularly for a self-injurer. The clarity and
organization enable me to locate what I seek without a lot of confusion and
hassle. I realize that some sites need to have commercial banners and so on
for funding purposes. This site is excellent, not just in content, but in
the technical aspects, since it makes the information easily accessible to
even the most novice of users. Thank you so very much.
Beth
I have to tell you I have never seen any site i can relate to as well as
this one. I like it. I think it's great and all the pics I can relate to
almost perfectly.
Jeremiah
You have misinformation on your site, concerning SI, this site said, "SI
behavior usually begins when a person is a teenager, escalates in a person's
twenties, and disappears by their thirties."
It very often does not disappear when person is in their 30's, it can and
does go on much longer, it can and does escalate after the teen years; often
in mid life.
Lynn
Sam has this comment on the article
Info Zur Selbstverletzung:
I read this article about "self injury". I didn't read the whole article,
because I got angry after a few lines. This doctor Ulrich Sachsse from
Göttingen doesn't know anything about self injury! To compare anorexia and
self injury - these two things are completely different. And he always
speaks of a sixteen year old person - it seems to me as if he thinks only
teenagers do this. Okay, might be there are many teenagers, who do this, but
it is not "the little craziness of the teenagers" that causes self injury,
it is often a kind of real madness. Of course there are people who do this
to be cool or something else, but the real self injury is not to cut your
arms a little (and everybody should see it, because it is cool or to worry
about or whatever) it is to brand your whole body or to cut your whole
body, because you have nothing to lose anymore, nothing...
Sam
Comments on the picture section
Having the picture section online has really helped keep my mailbox full.
Felicity has these comments:
I'm writing to ask you, as an ex-cutter and a person still dealing with
the effects of self-injury in my life, to PLEASE take down the pictures
you have on your website. They help no cutter or cutter's friend to
understand what happens. Instead, they inspire sick, twisty feelings of
inadequacy and self-pity, which, in turn, may lead to deeper, worse
cuts, and a desire not to stop because "Hey, maybe I can get MY cuts on
that site and be famous like Richey James." You're making the problem
worse, not better.
And another thing - some of your links have nothing to do with
self-injury. Instead, they deal with self-mutilation, which, if you
actually knew something, you would realize is different from
self-INJURY. Self-mutilation is done to achieve a cosmetic affect... it
includes self-piercing, among other things.
Sort things out. I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I feel
you're making it harder for self-injurers to stop and get help.
Respectfully,
Felicity
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