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Psyke.org generates a lot of email - positive and negative. Here is a small sample of what visitors have to say:

Snowebrit asks:

do you do this for pleasure pain what? do you slit your arm on a daily basis? do you not like who you are? are you trying to threten people? do you enjoy scaring people? do you like facing death? that is what is going to happen

My answers to these questions are: I do it to feel something, no, no, no, no, no.

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

Thank you so much for posting such an honest website. I am a cutter and I have been trying to stop, or just cut down. It is a very hard thing to do, and I admire you for getting over this addiction. I have looked at many websites, but yours is the only one I find completely honest.Every other website I have looked at are biased. It is really hard to find a decent site about self-harm. Thank you again. PS: Thanks for posting some alternatives to self-harm. Those are helpful.
Ashley

Wow
Gweneth

I've had a good look at your site and can see that you have worked very hard -- I am most impressed!
Jan Sutton

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

makiesblade (website: Memoirs of a Fading Flower) sent me this:

This is not healthy. I am a former cutter, and I am very happy I stopped. I'm scarred for life now and people see me on the street and make judgements at me, they laugh at me and point. Little kids want to know what happened to me, and I just want to let you know that when you do get better, you're going to be ashamed of these scars, you're not going to want them on the internet. And looking at this shit isn't helping you. Reading how to be bulimic, how to hurt yourself, this is shit; don't do it. Get away from this filth and get back to life, get better. Little children are reading this and thinking it's okay, and you know what? It's not okay. You need to take care of yourself, and this is not the way. And I know it's hard and no one wants to do it, but you have to. Trust me, I know, I know how good it feels when you cut, but you know what else feels good? Helping people, art, dancing, being with friends; so many things. You can email me, Im here to help, I dont care if I don't know you, you can talk to me, I'll be your friend, just put the razor down.

This can't be it...

Other visitors had this to say:

Hey, I really like your website. It's pretty cool, because you have a lot of neat info. and pictures. I've been a cutter for 3 years now. I cut myself daily throughout everyday. Been hospitizled about 10 times or so. Been on all different kinds of meds. Right now of Risperdal and Prozac. I've been really depressed more so lately...thinking about suicide again. Thinking about cutting an artery, or cutting really deep. Don't have many friends, nobody to really talk to. I'm just really, lonely, lost, and confused.
Lone Cutter

Psyke is a great site!
Laura

I found your web page to be very interesting. I'ts probably very helpful to people. I do write poetry in my spare time and I was also fortunate enough to be published twice. But anyway, Keep up the good work.
Heather

I have been cutting for 11 years now and it is nice to have help and so many people that understands I love this website. thank you for giving me hope!
Thanks again,
Erryn

She says:

Ok this Ive been meaning to seand this for ages but well: Thankyou. I dont think n e one could expain how much this site has ment to me. Its great to know there are other people in the world and the fourum seams like a little family thankyou so much for taking your time to make this site.

Loads and loads and loads and loads of love
She*

Cori writes:

I really enjoy this website. I read some of the personal experiences and the poetry, and I can relate so well. I feel like I could have written those things, those are things Ive been thru or I've felt. Thank you for making this page.

Sophie writes:

I'd just like to say well done I am a former self harmer and use this as a way to release my anger I have never been on anything like this before I'ts just nice to know that I can come here as well a many other upset and pained women and we can talk about our experiences and gain support well done many congrats!

Peggi writes:

This is a great website! I plan to pass this site on to others. I did not see the ability to e-mail the site to a friend which might be nice (if I missed it I apologize).

I'm working on a 'send this page to a friend' feature. More info when I have the code ready. - Wulff