a letter? was that meant for me? yeah. how are you doing? so i see people when they need to be seen, when they asked to be seen, when somebody else thinks they need to be seen. i will see what s wrong, see what can be done in the institution to help them cope. the only way i can get out of this mood, i mean, i don t care, you can give me drugs, alcohol. the only way i can get out of moods is through self-injury. okay. group therapy in the shu is conducted with each inmate locked in a separate holding cell. dr. sims moderates this small group of self-mutilators. once i see my blood, i m in another world. i m a different i m someone totally different from myself. i mean, that s the only time i actually, you know, can actually feel real, feel alive, and feel like everything s going to be okay. for me, it s being in control. my whole life, i felt like i wasn t in control. but then when i had times when i do cut myself, i m in control of the situation. there are a group
okay. for me, it s being in control. my whole life, i felt like i wasn t in control. but then when i had times when i do cut myself, i m in control of the situation. there are a group of people that self-injure when they come to prison as a way to control their level of pain, that when they re in so much pain that they don t know what to do, that they are starting to feel like suicide, that self-injury cuts their level of pain down, so it s pain control. self-injury really isn t bettering yourself. and sometimes people die. but i mean, it s just it s the survival tool that you developed. some people self-injure as a manipulation. they re not getting what they want and they self-injure and then everybody s attention is focused on them and people are more willing to do what they want because they self-injure. it s like a baby crying wanting his bottle. you give the baby his bottle because he s crying or change his diaper. me, you give me something sharp to hurt myself with, a
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okay. for me, it s being in control. my whole life, i felt like i wasn t in control. but then when i had times when i do cut myself, i m in control of the situation. there are a group of people that self-injure when they come to prison as a way to control their level of pain, that when they re in so much pain that they don t know what to do, that they are starting to feel like suicide, that self-injury cuts their level of pain down, so it s pain control. self-injury really isn t bettering yourself. and sometimes people die. but i mean, it s just it s the survival tool that you developed. some people self-injure as a manipulation. they re not getting what they want and they self-injure and then everybody s attention is focused on them and people are more willing to do what they want because they self-injure. it s like a baby crying wanting his bottle. you give the baby his bottle because he s crying or change his diaper. me, you give me something sharp to hurt myself with, a
their level of pain, that when they re in so much pain that they don t know what to do, that they are starting to feel like suicide, that self-injury cuts their level of pain down, so it s pain control. self-injury really isn t bettering yourself. and sometimes people die. but i mean, it s just it s the survival tool that you developed. some people self-injure as a manipulation. they re not getting what they want and they self-injure and then everybody s attention is focused on them and people are more willing to do what they want because they self-injure. it s like a baby crying wanting his bottle. you give the baby his bottle because he s crying or change his diaper. me, you give me something sharp to hurt myself with, and then i m fine. we had people break tvs and cut their throats with them. so we don t want to give people stuff that they are going to use to hurt themselves badly. one. to ensure the inmates are not making weapons to harm