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ppl always wanna put mental health symptoms down to “doing it for attention” as if wanting attention is inherently a bad thing. let alone the fact that it implies that it’s being done on purpose which is seldom the case. as if attention isn’t what society lusts for every single day. no one wants to feel unwanted and uncared for but when a mentally ill individual is expressing their pain in a way that isn’t considered acceptable then it’s suddenly the worst attention-seeking behavior they’ve ever seen 

this is why it makes my blood boil when ppl start shaming self harmers. “oh, they’re doing it for attention”, so what?! who cares if that’s the case. and sometimes it is. but that is clearly not what we should be focusing on here. someone is experiencing great pain and your first instinct is to invalidate the situation? way to go, mate. that’ll definitely improve the picture