I believe in this; for once, words say it all.

'You got to go there to know there.' Zora Neale Hurston


I hate it when people assume that they know. I hate it when they say 'It's a phase, you'll get over it' etc. I hate it. 


If you haven't been there, you don't know. 


'Been where?' 


I'm going to use my life-time old cliché example of an eating disorder. If some one is anorexic, you can't just say 'Eat something.' It doesn't work that way. Anorexic is a mental illness. 


('Anorexic - Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by extremely low body weight, distorted body image and an obsessive fear of gaining weight.')


I'm sick of people always assuming they know what it's like if they haven't been there. I hate people telling me that people who cut them selves and kill themselves are selfish. Whatever. If cutting is the only way you can get the pain out; big deal. If you live for years and years and nothing gets better, why no just kill yourself. 


People always says it gets better, but, sometimes it doesn't. 


Smoking: An addiction. Killing hundreds every year. Costly. Excepted by society. 
Drinking: An addiction. Killing hundreds every year. Can be costly. Excepted.
Cutting: An addiction. A way of release. Not costly. Not excepted.


I'm tired and I'm sick of this. I'm tired and fed up with people assuming you are crazy or attention seeking. I am completely sick of it all. 


You don't know unless you go there. Stop assuming you know. Please.