of "sadistic" personalities.
Samaher, a middle school student, holds a scalpel and tattoos her arm with the first two letters of her name and her friend’s name, without concern for the blood she bleeds or the pain she feels. All her thinking is focused on making a “tattoo” in her arm in order to keep up with the fashion that dominated her thinking. All this happened in the school yard By watching and blessing her friends and some students who stood to watch the scene of a tattoo, and because tattoos were a fashion that swept the Hollywood stars, so it was necessary for teenage schoolgirls to imitate them.
Girls flock to draw strange shapes and letters in different places of their bodies, and Hadeel Abdulaziz (student) says: “The schoolyard has turned into the best place to make tattoos, so seeing the scenes of female students cutting their skin with a scalpel and needle has become a regular and familiar matter, sometimes we stand to watch, and sometimes we do not pay attention to the situation. Important, as we have seen it repeatedly and become accustomed to it. ”She explains why some girls resort to using the primitive method of tattooing to their inability to go to a specialist in tattooing, and indicates that girls put" femto "juice or ink on the wound before it heals until it turns red. Dark.
She added that the most preferred place for girls to draw tattoos using a scalpel and needle in the forearm and shoulder regions, while the most common inscriptions are drawn are letters, the heart and the arrow.
Suhail Khan, head of the Subcommittee of the Saudi Psychiatric Society in the Western Region, confirmed that cutting the skin with a scalpel to make a tattoo without paying attention to the pain or blood caused by the wound is violence against oneself, but a kind of love violence, and this is evidence of an emotional or emotional void during adolescence. Especially since this period is considered the stage of personality formation so that the teenager receives anything from those he considers an example for him from his friends or others, explaining that adolescents in the most age group attempt suicide as a matter of immediate adventure or tendency, as he is under the influence of pressure or a certain behavior. To attract strange and unacceptable behavior.
Dr. Suhail explained that if the pain is of the loving kind like sadists, “Pain is related to pleasure in them, so they may have a high percentage of secretion of a certain substance and they wanted to obtain pleasure in this way, as in this age group they accept drugs, tattoos, staying up late, smoking and other things. "It has great risks and adventures, because it increases the proportion of some hormones they have, and thus compensates for the lost pleasure."
Khan referred to the absence of the role of parents and the family disintegration that the teenager suffers, which makes him search for the feeling of happiness and tranquility that he misses by harming himself, so that the girl searches for reassurance and safety through tattooing until she feels pleasure.
He emphasized that the defect and the problems behind it that need solutions will be revealed by presenting them to a specialist who analyzes their personalities and studies their condition and the condition of their families, and there may be some defect in education, in the family, in studies, or in the social or mental aspects.
For his part, plastic surgeon Dr. Haitham Jamjoom explained that the needle, scalpel, or chemical substance that girls put on the wound, if it is contaminated with certain bacteria, could cause "gangrene", stressing the importance of sterilizing tools and a wound that may be absent in these cases, and he pointed to Wounding the skin with a needle or scalpel without sterilization may cause infections, and if girls use the scalpel and needle themselves to make tattoos for more than one girl, this transmits diseases among them.
He explained that the method of wounding the skin of the girl herself, as she is not aware of what level the wound may reach from the skin areas, as it may cause her scars that are difficult to remove, indicating that the primitive methods are random and cause deep wounds in different areas of the skin levels, so that he cannot Removing them by a regular laser, adding from an aesthetic point of view also the "tattoo" may not appear beautiful in the primitive way, as the ink flows on the sides and the shape of the drawing varies and appears distorted.
Jamjoom pointed out that in the medical tattoo, medical materials are placed with sterile tools and a certain level is d in the depth of the wound on the skin so that it does not leave scars in the future, and even if the girl wants to remove it after that.
