Hi Matt!
Haha no, I don't know what it's like to be a 40-year-old therapist, but I will in 23 years, because I wanna become a psychologist!
But I do see your point, I do think that more cases of self injury are known with emo-kids than with other people. But do you really think that the music they/we listen to, can bring us to do certain things? Do you think that listening to "emo"-music brought me to harming myself? Because I never really had the idea that was happening, is it something that we're not conciouse of (sorry, don't know how to spell it
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But isn't it also that now-a-days we're all more "depressed" because there's a whole lot more pressure on us? I think adults expect too much of us teenagers these days and I think that brings people to be more down than years back. Do you think that could also be a reason? Because, how would it all start, how do they come up with the idea of writing songs about cutting and suicide?