[Talthyr Malkaviel]

Originally posted by Melusine: Not completely true, though part of it is. Self mutilation has, in most cases, nothing to do with attempted suicide and should be seen apart from it. It's often a way to transform mental pain into physical pain, has a calming effect on the patient lots of times. It's not always a call for attention, more of a safety valve. Lots of people are actually ashamed of their scars, and of doing it, so it's really something different than suicide attempts. But I agree that if someone tries to commit suicide by slashing their wrists, they're either very uninformed or not serious about it, as it's very difficult to succeed at killing yourself that way.

Oh no, you are right about self-harm, I know about that too, but there are cases of people wrist slitting, hoping for attention, as in thinking some one will stop them and take them to hospital or something.
For example, there was this one case (although not wrist slitting) of this rather insecure woman who was desperate for her husbands full attention, and every so often tried to kill herself knowing she would be stopped, but the last time she arrnaged with a friend to do the exhaust pipe trick, but something went wrong and she ended up actually dying.