Speak: Essay
Just like Melinda from the book “Speak” there are many teenagers with depressed emotions kept inside for no one to see. When people are in that state of mind they need to be able to have someone they can trust and talk to so they don’t feel alone. If you keep in those terrible feelings inside long enough stress will keep on building and then you might end up doing some harmful things. One of those ways people use to harm themselves is by cutting their wrists.
There are many risks people are taking when they are cutting their wrists. The most obvious one is loss of blood which can lead to death. There are other risks like infections which could come from the razor and other sources of bacteria. Other than doing physical damage to your body there is also the mental risk of people feeling “addicted” to cutting their wrists.
Cutting often begins on an impulse. It's not something the person thinks about ahead of time. Shauna says, "It starts when something's really upsetting and you don't know how to talk about it or what to do. But you can't get your mind off feeling upset, and your body has this knot of emotional pain. Before you know it, you're cutting yourself. And then somehow, you're in another place. Then, the next time you feel awful about something, you try it again — and slowly it becomes a habit.”
There more helpful and less permanent damage people can use to express how they are feeling other than cutting. Just like any other addictive thing there are steps needed to be taken to help stopping. 1. Tell someone. 2. Identify the trouble that's triggering the cutting. 3. Ask for help. 4. Work on it.
If we see someone that needs help other than making fun of them people should put themselves in their “shoes”, and understand where there coming from. And if you make people feel uncomfortable to tell their friends what they do how do you, how do you expect to them to be comfortable telling their family and strangers what they do?
