Cutting - misconceptions and facts
Posted on: February 4, 2008, at 04:12:22pm

-Cutting does NOT mean you are emo. (and likewise: your "emo-ness" is not connected with your cutting)
-Cutting does not mean you want to commit suicide.
-Cutting is addictive.
-Cutting is a way to release stress, anger, or pain.
-Cutting feels good due to endorphines in the brain that release during the process.
-Most "real" cutters (not dumb emo kids that think it is a way to be cool) hide their cuts very carefully and fear that people will find out about their problem (so if you think you have a friend that cuts, be careful how you talk to them about it).
-Many cutters have a low tolerence for pain outside of cutting.
-The majority of self-harmers (this covers a wider area than cutters) are between 11 and 25.
-1 in 12 or 1 in 15 people in this age group have self-harmed before or are currently self-harming.
-Reasons for cutting are various, but the two most popular are stress and dissociation (feeling numb, disconnected, or lost).
-Most self-injury reasons are personal to the person involved and hard to explain to others.
-Other reasons may include self-loathing (self-hatred), to draw attention (very unlikely in real cutters), sexual release, to feel in control, to make others feel guilty or bad, and/or to punish yourself.
-Cutters are people too. Don't look down on them for their way of dealing with pain. Cutting is just like drinking or smoking to deal with stress.

1. 1: xoxolaylaxoxo
   Posted at 11:51am on February 5th, 2008

   thank you!
   and i do cut in other places besides my arm like my upper leg stomach and such it is very addictive