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WELL KNOWN SELF INJURERS**

THERE IS NOTHING GLAMOROUS ABOUT SELF INJURY.

MY PURPOSE IN POSTING THEIR STORIES IS NOT TO GLAMORISE SELF INJURY... IT IS TO HELP "CUTTERS." 

WHEN YOU FEEL ALONE, SOMETIMES IT HELPS TO KNOW OTHERS HAVE BEEN THROUGH WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH, AND HAVE RECOVERED. I HOPE THESE STORIES INSPIRE "CUTTERS"  
TO FIGHT THE URGE TO CUT & FIND THE COURAGE TO REACH OUT FOR HELP.

THESE INDIVIDUALS WERE ABLE TO OVERCOME SELF INJURY, AND SO CAN YOU.  BE A HERO: 
REACH OUT TO SOMEONE YOU KNOW THAT'S A "CUTTER"  & LISTEN TO THEIR STORY TODAY!

PRINCESS DIANA
Diana, Princess of Wales, was born on July 1, 1961 to the Viscount and Viscountess of Althorp. Diana's parents divorced when she was only six, her mother left her father for another man. During the rest of her childhood she went back and forth between two households. At age fourteen, she had described herself as hopeless. Diana began purging (bulimia) on her own wedding night, upon finding out that Prince Charles was in love with some other woman. Throughout her marriage she felt no control over her life, it was like a mirror of her own sad childhood.
In a 1995 BBC television interview Princess Diana revealed to the world that she was a self-injurer. Diana said that she had cut her arms and legs, explaining, "You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help." "Diana: Her True Story," a biography written on the princess said that Diana had thrown herself into a glass cabinet at Kensington palace at various times, slashed her wrists with a razor, and cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer.
Once, during a heated argument with Prince Charles, she picked up a penknife and cut her chest and thighs. Her husband still scorned her, and thought she was faking her problems, that it was melodramatic attention seeking, but he was wrong. During a fight on an airplane, Diana locked herself in the bathroom, cut her arms, and smeared the blood over the cabin seats and walls. In another incident Princess Diana threw herself down a flight of stairs
Diana died tragically on August 31, 1997 in an automobile accident with her boyfriend, Dodi Fayed, while trying to evade the paparazzi. She was a courageous women, a giving and honest woman,she gave further prominence to the problem of self-injury.
ANGELINA JOLIE
Angelina Jolie, the actresswho has starred in "Girl Interrupted" and "Tomb Raider," was born in 1975 to famous parents, both actors.
In June 2001 Rolling Stone she said that during her very early teens she started "thinking about not wanting to be around. It was when the reality of life set in, the reality of surviving." Also, Angelina used to hurt herself during her early teens but stopped around the age of sixteen. She explained in a 2000 Maxim article, "You're young, you're crazy, you're in bed and you've got knives. So shit happens." But in 1999 Access Hollywood interview she explained it more in-depth, "I was..trying to feel something....I was looking at different things..thinking romantically about...about blood. I really hurt myself," and also said, "I was just....a kid. I was like 13, And, I was saying that it is not something that is cool. Its not cool. And I understand that it is a cry for help..."
In her interview with Jane Magazine Angelina said "This person asked me about cutting myself when they saw a scar. I'm very open, but because of that, people think that they know everything about me, and, actually, they don't know anything. I say things that other people might go through. That's what artists should do - throw things out there and not be perfect and not have answers for anything and see if people understand. But this person made the cutting sound interesting, like it was something I do now. [For the record, she did, but doesn't now, and doesn't endorse it.] And then I met somebody who said they'd seen movies of mine and then showed me where they had cut themselves. I had to explain, first off, not to do that. But it made me really fucking angry at the people who represent me in a way that would get that person to do that and show me. I don't understand why people would want to use something so damaging. It's like, let's make me look 'cool' and worry a lot of people in my family." Angelina has the Japanese symbol for "death" tattooed on her shoulder, and the Latin words, 'Quod me nutrit me destruit,' on her stomach, meaning "What nourishes me also destroys me."
Angelina Jolie no longer hurts herself as a way of coping. Article and interviews indicate that she is a much happier and more content and fulfilled individual than she was earlier in her life. Angelina Jolie now uses her past heartbreaks, and self injury experience to raise awareness, and to help others. Jolie truly is an individual who has used her own sorrow as a way to help heal her spirit while helping other people! Jolie is one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, and a beautiful example of how we can all use our past to help make the future bright for others, and ourselves!
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FIONA APPLE
Fiona Apple, famous singer/songwriter, was brutally raped outside of her mother's apartment when she was only twelve years old. For years after her rape she would check her closets to make sure no one was hiding in the house, and and Fiona was extremely nervous around older men. Fiona Apple still continues to have bad, violent dreams. Throughout her teen years and the months she spent making her album, Tidal, she suffered with an eating disorder, anorexia.
Frustrated and hurt by the misunderstanding by the media of her eating disorder she attempted to explain it t them in a 1998 Rolling Stone interview, "I definitely had an eating disorder. What was really frustrating for me was that everyone though I was anorexic, and I wasn't. I was really depressed and self-loathing. For me, it wasn't about being thin, it was about getting rid of the bait attached to my body. A lot of it came from the self-loathing that came from being raped at the point of developing my voluptuousness. I just thought that if you had a body and if you had anything on you that would be grabbed, it would be grabbed. So I did purposely get rid of it."
As a result of Fiona's eating disorder Fiona became practically skeletal. However,the media calously and cruelly wrote off her thinness as an attempt to "fit in." After her "Criminal" video from her album, "Tidal," came out Fiona began gaining weight on purpose. She wanted to prove the world that she doesn't care about being thin. In 1998 she said, "I mean, my plan is to gain enough weight that I can really be considered voluptuous, and do my 'First Taste' video. And I am preparing myself for what is going to happen. Because soon they will be saying that I'm fat. And it will hurt me."
The first time Fiona Apple read a bad album review for her album 'Tidal' she began scratching her left wrist with the fingernails of her right hand. Fiona scratched all the way up her arm, there are still some dark patches and marks on her wrists, where she dug the deepest. Fiona said, "I have a little bit of a problem with that. It's a common thing." When asked if it made her feel better she simply replied, "It just makes you feel." Fiona also sometimes bites her lips as hard as she can, sometimes until they bleed. "And it'll be bleeding, and I can't stop, because it almost feels so good when I bite my lip." Trying to explain herself she said, "It was never, like, 'I am going to hurt myself and put myself in the hospital.' ...It is that I am going to give myself the pain that I need to feel to put the punctuation on this shit that's going inside."
Fiona would get hurtful and upset when she feel that people think she's "crazy." Fiona Apple says, "The most annoying thing for me to hear about myself is that I'm trying to make people have a pity party for me. Everything that I've gone through has been dramatized by the people who've written about it, not by me. I'm just saying, 'This happened to me, this happened to a lot of people.' Why should I hide shit? Why does that give people a bad opinion of me? It's a reality. A lot of people do it.


COURTNEY LOVE pulled me aside at a party and showed me her marks."
Fiona Apple is now happier and more confident individual since she talked so frankly about her past self-injury and eating disorder to Rolling Stone. Articles in several magazines and newspapers, including The Washington Post and USA Today,and Blender mention different new sides of Fiona, such as her new take on life, a healthy weight gain and a new-found confidence in herself and her music. In a USA Today interview she said still "gets upset when she reads a particularly bad article about herself or review of her music "but she no longer self injurs as a result. Fiona Apple is a perfect example of someone who had alot to overcome, and who never gave up.
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LISA "LEFT EYE" LOPEZ
Lisa "Left Eye" Lopez. Born May 27th, 1971. She was an artist, a visionary, writer, and film maker. She was in a very successful musical group, TLC. Lisa Lopez also had a crazy relationship with a boyfriend named Andre', who cheated on her. She, in turn, burned his house down.
Lisa herself filmed a documentary in Honduras in the weeks before her unexpected death, which was recently aired on VH1. In this documentary, Lisa candidly opened up her heart, telling the word that when she was in her relationship with ex boyfriend Andre, she took a razor, and carved the word, "LOVE" on her arm. Self injury.
After she found out he had cheated on her, Lisa carved the word "HATE" on her arm, to replace the word, "LOVE."
It was during these weeks in Honduras fiming this documentary Lisa "left Eye" Lopez truly found peace, and became one with God. To quote Lisa, " Whenever there is a struggle, it is only a preperation."
Lisa died in a car wreck days later. She was wearing her seat belt, and was sober. Lisa died April 25th, 2002.
Before she died, Lisa said, "I personally do not believe in death. I believe in transformation."
Lisas' song with the group TLC, "Waterfalls" stands today as a musical classic. Lisas' legacy of love and light lives on. Before she died she began a camp in Honduras for children that is still thriving today. Lisa Lopez was an amazing spirit who will never be forgotten.
TORI AMOS
Tori Amos, was born the daughter of a Methodist minister in Rockville, Maryland. Tori was always a free thinker. Tori's father recalls the first time Tori heard the Christmas story, she said, "Wow. I wonder what people would have done if Joseph came out of the manger and said, "It's a girl!"
Amos herself was a child prodogy, and attenended the Peabody Conservatory. She was playing Mozart by age 5. Years went by, and Amos supported herself financially by performing in piano bars until the wee hours of the morning. In her early twenties, Amos was raped. This incident almost broke her, and began infusing her compositions , her songs with a true sense of pain, and understanding. When Tori released her album Little Earthquakes in 1992, it contained a song entiteled "Me And A Gun", which told the story of her rape. Amos, overwhelmed by the response to her song went on to co-found RAINN, the Rape And Incest National Network, America's ONLY free, confidential rape crisis hotline.
On the subject of self injury, Tori Amos was quoted as saying,"People need to understand the self loathing that comes with being raped. People need to understand that it is the greatest breakage of divine law to mutilate yourself, as I have done."
Tori Amos is a sparkling example of someone who went through a terrible, degrading experience, and used that experience to help others.
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JOHNNY DEPP
In Johnny Depps' younger years, he struggled with drugs, as well as self injury. Johnny Depp was a "cutter". To this day, Depp has 7 visible scars on his forarem....a grim reminder of sadder, darker days.
Depp used cutting as a coping mechanism to deal with his life, which was spiraling out of control. To quote Depp, "No matter how famous I am, no matter how many people see my movies, I still have the idea that I am a pale no-hoper."
However, when Depp met current girlfriiend Vanessa Paradis(who Depp considers his wife), things began to change. The couple had a daughter, and the love of his family helped Depp overcome self injury. Depps' story is a good example of how love can truly heal a person.
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COLIN FARREL
Colin Farrel was born in 1976 in Ireland. He found school to be a bore and by age 13 he was already a heavy drinker. At age 15, Farrel was using drugs, any drug he could get his hands on. Then at age 16, Farrel had a breakdown infront of his mother, who rushed him in to see a doctor.
The doctor gave Farrel a medication called Librium, and some other medicines that would make Farrel sick if he drank any alcohol. Farrel stopped drinking for 11 months.
However, Farrel was still in a great deal of emotional pain, and turned to self injury, as a way to cope.
Apparantly, Farrel had been a self injurer when he was a thirteen year old, and he never told anyone. He kept it a secret.
Farrel told GQ,"I'm a hair puller-outter."
Farrel revealed that at the tender age of thirteen he would tug the whole part of hair near his forehead, strand by strand.
"What do you call it? Trichomania or something. There is some generic psychological term for it. I was addicted to it."
Today Farrel has found himself through his craft, acting, and the arts. This has helped him cope with pain without resorting to self injury.
CHRISTINA RICCI
Christina Ricci was a child star who made her debut in the films, Mermaids, and The Adams Family. When Christina was 13 years old, her parents divorced, this put her under intense pressure, and began a downward spiral in her life. Ricci developed Bulimia, an eating disorder, which she kept hidden for years.
Later, years later Christina was extremely candid talking about her bulimia. This is commendable, she should be respected for her bravery on talking about her problems, not judged for having them.
However, Christina, still harbored a dark secret inside of herself, behind the glitter of being a young star, Christina Ricci was secretly a "cutter"..a "self injurer".
In a US magazine interview Christina explained a small, smile-shaped scar on her hand. "I was trying to impress Gaby [Hoffmann, her best friend]. So I heated up a lighter and pressed it on my hand." She revealed other burn scars on her arms and said, "I wanted to see if I can handle pain. It's sort of an experiment to see if I can handle pain." In a SPIN magazine interview she revealed that she sometimes would put out cigarettes out on her arms.
When asked if it hurts she replied, "No. You get this endorphin rush. You can actually faint from pain. It takes a second, a little sting, and then it's like you really don't feel anything. It's calming actually."
In a 1998 Rolling Stone interview she explained where each scar came from. When she was angry about "not looking very good" Christina heated up a lighter and held it to her hand to impress some boys. Scratches on her forearms came from fingernails and soda tops.
She explained, "It's like having a drink. But it's quicker. You know how your brain shuts down from pain? The pain would be so bad, it would force my body to slow down, and I wouldn't be as anxious. It made me calm." Christina also addressed the issue of her teenage bulimia, since has since recovered from the disorder.
In a 1999 Mademoiselle interview she said, "In a way, I was trying to get rid of my breasts. Everyone my age wanted them, so it was like, whoo-ooo. Then I started hating them. And for all of my movies, I was supposed to be younger, so I'd have to strap them down."
When looking back on her self-injury the same interview Christina said, "when I was younger, I did self-mutilate. I'd be upset, so I'd do it, and it would calm me down. It's a horrible way to feel better. But there are two parts of your brain- one that really wants to destroy the other. And sometimes the idea of self-destruction is very romantic. I got over that."
Indeed, Christina get over that, and more power to her. Christina has left self injury behind her, and is healthier and a happier person, now that she has found her way. The most important thing for you, reading this to take with you from her story is this: Christina overcame self injury. *YOU* can, too!
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CASSIE BERNALL(1981-1999)
Cassie Bernall was killed in the Columbine High School shooting massacre in Littleton, Colorado on April 20th, 1999. Twelve other victims perished with her on that dark day. While the two killers were shooting innocent students, Cassie was hiding under a table in the school library. When the two gunmen entered ( who happened to be fellow students at the high school), they targeted Cassie immediately, because she was visibly praying.
"I couldn't see anything when those guys came up to Cassie, but I could still recognize her voice. I could hear everything like it was right next to me. One of them asked her if she believed in God. She paused, like she didn't know what she was going to answer, and then she said yes. She must have been scared but her voice was strong. Then they asked her why, though they didn't give her time to respond. They just blew her away"-Josh, a fellow student and witness.
Cassie Burnall died with bravery, faith, and honor. However, Cassie was also a teenager, a real girl, who had battled self injury in her past. In a letter she wrote on January 2nd, 1999, she said,
"I cannot explain in words how much I hurt. I didn't know how to deal with this hurt so I physically hurt myself. Maybe it was my way of expressing my sadness, anger, and depression...I would lock myself in the bathroom and hit my head on the counters. I also did this on the walls in my bedroom. I'd scratch my hands until they bled. Then I went numb. Afterwards, it stung very badly, which I thought I deserved anyway."
Of this period in her life Cassie wrote, "No words can accurately express the blackness I feel inside."
Cassie attended a Christian youth retreat and had a deep and spiritual experience there. Coming home from the camp she told her mother, "Mom, I've changed." According to Cassie's mother, Misty, this is true. Misty said, "Cassie was suddenly a different person with Christ in her life. Her eyes had light in them again, and she smiled like she hadn't in years."
Cassie overcame her self injury. Her new belief in God helped her, and gave her hope and strength. Cassie was a 17 year old girl with her whole life ahead of her. Her life was stolen from her on April 20th 1999 when she was asked, "Do you believe in God"...and she said, "YES."
Cassie's story has been immortalized by the Christian rock band Flyleaf with their song, "Cassie".
Above: Video In Memory of Cassie Burnall. The video clip of Cassie talking was recorded only 2 days before she was killed.
Above: A memorial to Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott who were killed in Columbine. A reminder of how short life truly is, and how we should strive to live each day as if it were our last. Don't waste time. Get help[ for self injury now, before you've wasted years of what is truly a very short life here on earth.
"All of us should live life so as to be able to face eternity at any time."- Cassie Burnall
 
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