Posted by oracle on August 7, 2002, at 17:08:38
In reply to Re: making myself deaf??? » Phil, posted by hrtlm on July 13, 2002, at 10:17:52
First you indicated you were doing these behaviors:
so, its strange to me that i could be exhibiting similar behavior, but for such different reasons
is it some subconscious desire to make myself ugly (trust me, the scars from keeeping a wound open for almost a year are in fact hideous) or something else? could it be just a bad habit?
Then you said it was someone else:
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> In the interest of putting the argument to rest, I will tell you why I asked. A friend and I were talking about mental illness, treatment, the snowballing of symptoms that occurs with lack of treatment, etc. My friend, a lot of times, makes crap up (Wow, maybe you two would hit it off.). Anyway, he gets into this story about someone who couldn't take even the smallest of noises, so the guy intentionally inflicted deafness upon himself. I said "Jesus, that would hurt!", thinking it would have to be a self-inflicted physical injury (unless it was really some sort of uncontrollable incident like a virus, etc.). He said that no, it wasn't anything like that. So I asked him for specifics and he, of course, didn't have any, so I thought I'd ask here.
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> Again, I'm not saying that you had any obligation to answer my original post. But it's really not appropriate to publicly deem my request "unworthy" by asking "Why do you want to know?" And again, you definitely have no right to create your own scenario and post it.
Posting again and again on this (without answering "why"?), and then mixing up who you are talking about tends to confuse people.
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