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Self-Harm, or I Would Like to Feel Something

by Sean - 21 September 2008

A couple days ago, I punched my thighs several times. It did not hurt. So I slapped my face. Hard. Repeatedly. I did not feel it. I banged my head against the wall. I stopped because my partner came to investigate what I was doing, on account of the noise I was making. I would have continued. I just wish I could feel *something*.

Happiness and fear

by Gordo - 3 July 2008

Today, a contact on my MSN list attached the following comment to her username: “Be right or be happy?”

Whenever a question like this is phrased as such, it seems so obvious — be happy. However, as we’ve seen in the BIID circles, it doesn’t always work like that. Society has an obsession with being “right” at the cost of happiness; in other words, being both “normal” AND happy is at a premium.