To think this is one of the saddest personal stories I've read

[TitaniumSpider]

www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-6b62f336-ff42-42b9-a23d-212d4d6ca5d8

It's very sad that her life has gone that way and she has so little self worth :(

[WindPowerRanger]

The really sad thing is that it seems she is still impulsive, attention-seeking and lacking in self-knowledge. Even that said, it is still a mundane story of bad parenting, drug addiction and poor relationships.

[PirateSmile]

It's probably 'sad' if you've had a lovely middle-class existence and nothing bad has ever happened to you. It doesn't even come close to some of the things I've known people have endured, quietly, stoically and in the privacy of their own world.

[AuntJane]

If that's the saddest thing you've ever read .....

Two months after I got engaged, my fiance collapsed and after investigation was diagnosed with cancer. He went through surgery, radiation and chemo, and was given the all clear. A year after his collapse, we got married. Less than four months later we learned that the cancer was back and inoperable. He was given less than six months to live. Our marriage lasted 55 weeks and 20 minutes.

Yes, getting stupid tattoos is SO sad!

[GarlicShake]

YYY, Wind. Doing an internet diagnosis on her, she seems to have classic Borderline Personality Disorder - which often is confused with bi-polar in young women. She's obsessed with not having an identity, trying to merge with people she perceives as having strong identities, and trying to discover one for herself through woo-spiritual stuff (when not fucking around with her skin.)
That is sad.
Also commonplace - which, itself, is sad.

[PirateSmile]

Oh AuntJane my deepest sympathies.

[TitaniumSpider]

Pirate I wish that were the case. I have had far from a lovely, middle class upbringing, if only I had then maybe I'd have a different view on the article.

[Cabbagedcrust]

What is sad is the tattoo epidemic that is sweeping the nation, so many people with their dated tribal symbol or Hello Kitty tatts that'will need removing very soon because they look bloody ridiculous. I agree with previous poster about retraining in tattoo removal as there's a shit load of cash there for the taking!

[TitaniumSpider]

AuntJane
I'm sorry.

[PirateSmile]

You must have had a sheltered life though TitaniumSpider to think it's so sad.

[anotherbusymum14]

There's some strange postings on Mumsnet. Is it a full moon?

[wickedwitchofwaterloo]

The real tragedy is how badly done those panthers on her back are.
Oh and you can numb your skin with Emula/Ametop cream before you get laser removal so I don't know what she's moaning about really...

[IPityThePontipines]

Another - at least this story is verifiably true. MN must be sick of the sight if my reports tonight. Every other OP is... eyebrow raising.

[PirateSmile]

Are you the woman from the blog OP?

[SaucyJack]

Did you accidentally link to an article about some narc getting her tats lasered off instead of the story about the three-legged dog sitting by its owner's grave you were talking about in your OP?

[PastaLaFeasta]

Loads of teens and young people feel depressed, lost and deal with family breakdown or worse. Perhaps her privilege allowed her to be more destructive than normal teens, she had an amazing safety net of money and family willing to fly her round the world. Without a safety net she may have had to face reality, grow up, look after herself and deal with life, including depression and low self esteem, the way most of us have to. Perhaps it's a blessing to be a working class oik and not to be sheltered from the real world. Although there seems to be an awful lot more MH issues within the more well off communities/schools. Or is it just diagnosed more - I would've been laughed at for admitting I was depressed in my early teens.

[TitaniumSpider]

Piratesmile God no, I haven't got any tattoos. I'm not the sort to post my life story online for all and sundry to read.

[PirateSmile]

It's weird then that you would draw attention to the story.

[loumayfield]

If people decide to do things like this to there body then that's there decision. I don't think it's sad though however, i think living in country without clean drinking water and food is truly sad especially in this day and age.

[bettyberry]

Have a read of 'The Julie Project', OP.

www.huffingtonpost.com/francesco-zizola/the-julie-project-a-visua_b_1909604.html

essentially it is about Julie, her life with HIV and then aids, living in poverty with a drug addiction and all that comes with it.

Its harrowing, sad and I felt angry on her behalf.

The story you posted is nothing in comparison to this.

[parrots]

She reminds me of Liz Jones! In more ways than one

[Galdos]

Oh dear, I thought the OP story was rather funny, not sad. Am I heartless?

[mrgrouper]

I used to work as a doctor (got sacked due to disability discrimination lawsuit which I won).
The TWO saddest things I ever came across

1. 6 year old boy killed in hit and run. Came into A&E and was DOA. The police caught the drunk driver, he got 6 weeks in jail, which is an insult to that boy and his family
   
2. a guy with severe motor neurone who spelled out on a letter board "please kill me now". Legally we could not euthanise him, but he died naturally a few days later.
   

Both of these patients and their grieving, panicked families will stay with me for the rest of my life.
The article the OP has posted pales into insignificance next to such human suffering.

[ThinkYouKnowMe]

on the scale of 1 to 10 the pain is a 11.

yes, ok then, maybe for you.
But to many other people, no.

Try telling your story to people who have been scared from domestic violence, acid attacks etc. Who cant get a 'clean slate'.

biggest load of tosh I've read in along time

[AngieBolen]

Well, she's obviously a very unhappy person, and I think the tattoos were a form of self harm.

I decided lots of people, use tattoos and piercings as a way of self harming, and yes I do think that is somewhat sad.

The link is sad but lots and lots of people have sad stories and this is far from the saddest personal stories I've read.

[mrgrouper]

ThinkYouKnowMe
Why does that quote put me in mind of Spinal Tap's amplifiers?