Ya'll need to watch Michael Moore's film Capitalism: A Love Story. You may think that the American Dream to get to the top is possible, but its not unless you were born with money. The 1% of this country do everything they can to stay in power, they own the elections so they can continue to put their headquarters in other countries to avoid taxes and outsource their work for cheaper labour because everyone else will work for cheap. Our system is benefiting the 1%, the middle class is shrinking, something needs to change, and I'm putting my cards on Bernie Sanders bringing out the S word: Socialism

Well well aren't we pessimistic tyty

Damn, forgot to sign in, this is me ^

Guest. I must say that you should talk with a counselor, because you are still abusive to yourself even as you talk about how you are helping yourself. I can hear your self hatred from where I'm sitting and I'm telling you that it will occasionally waver in its intensity, but until you are given the tools to help yourself, it will always be there

Once again, I don't disagree, but it really helps the healing process if victims are treated like people that need to be healed rather than a problem that needs to be fixed. Sympathy shows a victim that what happened is not their fault, which is SUCH an important piece to the process. It's impossible for someone who has not been through abuse to understand, but the victim is either made to believe that what happened is their fault in order to keep quiet, or they make themselves believe it in order to continue to punish themselves. Both are possible, both require treatment. Treatment beginning with sympathy, continuing with understanding, and ending with the guarantee of continued support.

I don't disagree with guest, but I will say that perhaps some people are weak because they've already been through so much. Child molestation, rape, physical abuse, verbal abuse, family disfunction, malnutrition, and undiagnosed learning impairments are all things that slow the process of brain maturity, and they change who you are. Perhaps rather than telling people "that's just how it is", you offer them a place where they can receive much needed mental and biochemical review and treatment. Perhaps the societal view of self harm, suicidal tendencies, and depression should also take into consideration the root of why the issues are there, not just what set them off at that time.

That's such a Pikachu thing to do

K look. I had really really no good awful things happen to me when I was little. I began self harm when I was 6 years old, I've been clean now for 8 months (I'm 18). You know what got me there? Therapy. I understand your concerns about telling your mom, because I still haven't. People who have not gone through it cannot understand the shame and the fear that comes with our burden. But there are centers available to you that will help. My therapy sessions are once a week, and only $10 because they really want to help me. I'm telling you that help is available near you. Please seak it. You don't have to tell anyone. I understand that pain, but I'm telling you as someone who has been in the darkness for 14 years and almost let it swallow her up three times, you have to get out.

Oh goodness thank you. Its been bothering me for so long. Why is it that sometimes the number of likes is red?

Sshhh, that would make sense

Its true Pikachu, you can't get out of it. The only way is to fall back asleep, and that in itself is terrifying and seemingly impossible, but I think eventually your brain puts you to sleep. It occurs when your conscious brain wakes up before your body and your unconscious brain. Hence the hallucinations; you're dreaming awake. And the brain sends a paralisis hormone through your body when you enter REM so you don't act out your dreams like sleepwalkers do, and since your brain didn't have enough time to send the hormone to counteract the paralysis, so you're basically fucked. Its not a good time. You can't turn off your instincts, your mind poisons itself. Its like saying you're going to get drunk but just turn off the feeling of being intoxicated