Obsession.
You're Goth You're dark. Bad vibes are your stock and trade. Sure you are not destined for happiness, so just sit back and take it all in.
@previous (C)
Goth is not about bad necessarily, it is about recognizing the pain and suffering in life, but not enjoying it!
@previous (Dark !HLa610O9S2)
> but not enjoying it!
Based on my quick search, not enjoying it is an understatement
Self-harm study
A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that "identification as belonging to the Goth subculture [at some point in their lives] was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide [among young teens]", and that it was most possibly due to a selection mechanism (persons that wanted to harm themselves later identified as goths, thus raising the percentage of those persons who identify as goths). According to The Guardian, some goth teens are at more likely to harm themselves or attempt suicide. A medical journal study of 1,300 Scottish schoolchildren until their teen years found that the
53% of the goth teens had attempted to harm themselves and 47% had attempted suicide. The study found that the "correlation was stronger than any other predictor".
The study was based on a sample of 15 teenagers who identified as goths, of which 8 had self-harmed by any method, 7 had self-harmed by cutting, scratching or scoring, and 7 had attempted suicide.
The authors held that most self-harm by teens was done before joining the subculture, and that joining the subculture would actually protect them and help them deal with distress in their lives. The authors insisted on the study being based on small numbers and on the need of replication to confirm the results.The study was criticized for using only a small sample of goth teens and not taking into account other influences and differences between types of goths; by taking a study from a larger number of people
@previous (C)
Yeah well, life is hard for lots of teens, alright? Cutting is the only way to feel alive sometimes...
@previous (Dark !HLa610O9S2)
> 47% had attempted suicide.
Time to find another culture.
@1,021,843 (Dark !HLa610O9S2)
> Goth is not about bad necessarily, it is about recognizing the pain and suffering in life, but not enjoying it!
Also it’s about listening to true goth emo music like Panic! At the Disco and eating a burrito at PJ’s Coffee