No, don’t do it, an inner voice warned.

You don’t know what it feels like to be this way. To be this … human.

You can stop it now, the inner voice said.

I don’t want to. I want the release. I want to feel the pain.

Wouldn’t you rather like to feel good?

This will make me feel good.

No it wouldn’t.

Stop nagging me. You sound like my drunken mother.