Comments on: Pain http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:04:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2 hourly 1 By: Sean http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14446 Sean Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:10:26 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm#comment-14446 Do note I have no intention to start cutting :) I was merely saying that I can understand the need to exteriorise the internal pain. {shrug} Do note I have no intention to start cutting :) I was merely saying that I can understand the need to exteriorise the internal pain.

{shrug}

]]> By: Gordo http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14437 Gordo Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:51:04 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm#comment-14437 You're pretty much bang-on about the cutting thing. I had a phase (maybe not the right word to use but I can't think of a better one at the moment) in my teen years where I had a big BIID attack. At the time, I didn't know about BIID so I had no idea what the hell was going on; I just knew that there was a lot of emotional pain and I couldn't get rid of it no matter how hard I tried. So the cutting started, to transfer emotional pain into physical pain. It's not definitely something I'd recommend, but you're not the only one who feels like making the pain "real." You’re pretty much bang-on about the cutting thing. I had a phase (maybe not the right word to use but I can’t think of a better one at the moment) in my teen years where I had a big BIID attack. At the time, I didn’t know about BIID so I had no idea what the hell was going on; I just knew that there was a lot of emotional pain and I couldn’t get rid of it no matter how hard I tried. So the cutting started, to transfer emotional pain into physical pain.

It’s not definitely something I’d recommend, but you’re not the only one who feels like making the pain “real.”

]]> By: Sean http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm/comment-page-1#comment-14418 Sean Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:58:24 +0000 http://transabled.org/thoughts/pain.htm#comment-14418 I need to make the pain real. I punch my legs, doesn't really hurt, but it reminds me they are there, and they are feeling. I have been known to punch walls, even to put my fist through the drywall. But I don't do that since arthritis is eating up my joints. In a way, I think I understand those who are "into" cutting. It makes the internal pain real. Maybe I ought to find a real hammer rather than a virtual one... I need to make the pain real. I punch my legs, doesn’t really hurt, but it reminds me they are there, and they are feeling. I have been known to punch walls, even to put my fist through the drywall. But I don’t do that since arthritis is eating up my joints.

In a way, I think I understand those who are “into” cutting. It makes the internal pain real. Maybe I ought to find a real hammer rather than a virtual one…

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