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Everyone always used to say 'think about how your scars will look on your wedding day'. Back then I didn't believe I would ever have a wedding day. And now that I have I realised that the scars and the pain don't matter anymore. Keep fighting because you can make it to the best day of your life. #scars #life #wedding #happy #bestdayever #battlescars #keepfighting #headstogether #rethink #wellness #wellbeing #hope #lifeisoutthere #yesyoucan #selfharmuk #selfharmscars #showyourscars #loveyourself #mind #mentalhealth #shrecovery
a healed scar is nothing to be ashamed off. it is a sign of strength. it is evidence to all the hardships you survived.
an open cut is also nothing to be ashamed of. it is a visual representation of the pain that you feel inside, something you can point to, to show how much you hurt... it is proof that you are fighting. because, yes, you are hurting yourself, but you are alive... that being said, i do not encourage or promote or glorify self harm. i would never tell a person who has never self harmed before to "give it a try, it's a great way to cope!". no. never!!! but i'm realistic and i know the statistics... i know how many of us there are out there and i know that none of us are going to simply stop hurting ourselves just because someone says: "stop. self harm is bad. you shouldn't do it!" it doesn't work that way. we all know it's bad anyway, but we still do it... what i'm trying to do is open everyone's mind a little. those who don't understand self harm i am trying to educate a bit. those who still self harm i am trying to get them to see that there are ways to recover, that they do not deserve this pain wether self inflicted or otherwise, and that there are other ways of coping. i try to tell them this without forcing them into anything, lecturing them, or preaching to them. and those of us who are already recovered or are working toward recovery, i am trying to show that the things we are recovering from are nothing to be ashamed of. instead they are something to take pride in because they show our strength and our survival. do not ever be ashamed for what your mental illness makes or made you do. you are all so strong. keep on fighting. and please stay safe!
this is so powerful...
a lot of people who see this probably think "what the hell? what is she doing? you can't hurt yourself so drastically to be skinny! what is this?" thing is, it's obviously a metaphor. i know you can't just cut open your skin bag with scissors and remove fat like stuffing from a teddy bear. but think about it this way: aren't a lot of us hurting ourselves drastically to achieve this exact result? aren't we starving ourselves, puking multiple times a day, punishing ourselves for eating, hating our bodies because we don't fit some photoshoped ideal?! everyone is different. we all look different. if anything we should strive to be healthy, and our healthy bodies are all going to look different. some will be bigger, some will be smaller. just like some will be shorter and others taller. we are all beautiful though. please don't hurt yourself to become perfect. you are already perfect just the way you are!
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umm... i find this very telling. so according to victoria's secret real beauty is women of varying skin tones (yes, this is true) but they need to be super skinny otherwise they are not "really beautiful". that's somewhat disturbing!!!! and not true at all!
the dove campaign is better. at least those women look real and not photoshopped! yes there is definetly even more room for body diversity in this love your body campaign, but it is better than the other one...
like seriously...?! beauty is not defined by stick thin model photoshop. beauty is defined by being real! and yes, some people naturally look like these models, and that is their real body and that is beautiful. but some people don't look like this, and that doesn't mean that they are not equally as beautiful and have a right to love their own body. everyone has a right to feel beautiful in their own skin and to love their body. everyone. women and men in all the amazing diverity that exists in our world!
let me know what you think of these campaigns in the comments...
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this is true...
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every night... every damn night! why?!
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this is very very very very important to remember. just because there are no fresh scars and cuts on our bodies doesn't mean that the pain is gone and we're all better now. it might mean that we are now cutting where you can't see or in places we know you won't check. or it may mean that we're simply hurting ourselves in different ways that aren't as obvious and visible as physical scars. the same holds true for eating disorders. simply making an anorexic eat and forcing them to gain weight or not letting a bulimic purge their meal will not heal them. it may make their bodies healthier but not their brain. and as soon as you stop force-feeding them and watching them like a hawk they will go right back to their destructive behaviour... i know you want to fix us, i know it's scary watching a loved one go through this. but you need to be sure you're helping us in the right way, not in the way that seems easy and obvious. recovery is neither obvious nor easy! recovery from mental illness does not mean that the body is recovered; although of course that's important too. but more importantly it's the mind that needs to recover. help us to fix our brains; our body will follow.
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"you say i couldn't last a day in the real world; i say you wouldnt survive one night in mine"
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there is no one way that a person who has an eating disorder is "supposed to look". there are many different kinds of eating disorders and everyone suffers them differently. do not decide wether to believe that a person has an eating disorder or not because they are not stick thin. eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes and so do the people suffering from them. but in our head we are all fighting the same demons. so many people with eating disorders go untreated and suffer unnecessarily because "you're too fat to have an eating disorder!" and that's bullshit. even an anorexic (the eating disorder that is most defined by skinnyness) does not have to be rail thin in order to have anorexia. the food that we eat or don't eat or binge or purge isn't the disorder; it's the symptom. the disorder; the illness is the way we feel about ourselves to make us do such extreme and damaging things...
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