I got called an attention seeker... Any advice on how to stop it?
Question Posted Friday October 25 2013, 8:05 pm
Okay so I have depression and I do cut myself. About a month ago, I would always tell my friends I cut and stuff because it was my way of asking for help (Weird, I know) but I don't do that anymore and that was a month ago.
Well someone told me I'm just seeking for attention and I don't have depression. I do realize it seems like I was, but that was a month ago and I no longer do it. Yes, I still cut, but I don't tell people I do. Bad mistake, I know.
lightoftruth answered Monday October 28 2013, 6:33 pm: You can't control what other people do. You're just going to have to do your best to ignore them and stay away from people who say that kind of stuff to you.
You do have a serious problem, it irritates me when people say things like that without consideration that the person could be going through a tough time.
People are mean and it sucks.
Just stick with good friends and ignore the people who say things like that. Don't hang around them.
You are getting help now right?
If not, then I'm going to suggest you go to a counselor or therapist or anything like that really. You need professional help and you deserve to have this problem not effect your life so bad. [ lightoftruth's advice column | Ask lightoftruth A Question ]
Dragonflymagic answered Monday October 28 2013, 5:21 am: You are not able to change the actions of other people so there is no way to make them stop saying certain things to you or doing things you don't like. The only thing you have control over is changing yourself or not. Change is scary though so few people change for the better. To change, it involves often some kind of healing. The part of us that needs healing is in our subconscious where our emotions and feelings are. The hurt or trauma to our emotions is either from external conflict, bad experiences and treatment that was forced upon us or it is self created in self defeatist thinking, stinking thinking which includes low self esteem.
I am not a psychologist but I helped two daughters through depression. One truly needed medication as hers was an imbalance in the hormone levels that was a chemical thing in her body and the other did not. The 2nd daughter had hers due to external events that happened to her which caused her to compound things by doing the negative thinking. There are ways to get over that kind of depression without prescriptions. If you are interested in trying and more concerned about yourself than what others are doing, then let me know and I will share with you what you can do to overcome your depression. [ Dragonflymagic's advice column | Ask Dragonflymagic A Question ]
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