You did belittle it by saying this "barely scratched the surface of her wrist, just enough to make a little blood appear"
As you may or may not recall, I hit my vein, not just scratched my self, hitting a vein with a dull razor takes a lot of work. The blood just didn't appear, it was pulsing out of the vein. If you remember correctly my pants and shirt were soaked in blood. I have very prominent scars to look at ever day. In fact I have tatooed both of my wrists so I have something positive to look at everyday instead of those ugly scars. This is a very major event in my life, that to this day effects me. Yes part of it was done out of attention, but a lot was just the hopelessness of where I was at the time. Being confronted in that state, was not what I needed at the time and did a lot of damage. The thing that pissed me off even more, was it being used down the road to convince other parents what would happen should aarc not step in. I will never forget the day when Dr.V said in a Friday night rap (once I was on staff), "remember Jessie, remember when we had to break the door down when you tried to kill yourself, you would have died if we wouldn't have broken in"... That never happened, but it was used as a scare tactic for the parents.... only aarc can save your kids lives. I didn't like being used that way.... [ This Message was edited by: JessicaM on 2005-02-26 10:29 ]