Eeeeemilyyyyy if it’d been someone other than you who posted that I could’ve thought it was a kinky thing instead of a self-harm thing and I wouldn’t have to feel uncomfortable about my reaction being “Ooh, I want that to happen to me!”
I may really need someone to talk to about this who might be open to my point of view.
Also re: Emily I almost feel wary because my FEELINGS about this make me feel sympathetic and like we’re in this together somehow which is really not the case.

I don’t usually doubt my own feelings about what’s good for me, but…

For some reason today I ran across a whole bunch of different people talking about nail-biting and hair-pulling and lip-biting and so forth, and how they struggle with them and are trying to stop.  And it’s making me start to doubt my usual confidence that the things I do aren’t bad for me.

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