What's the deal with cutting?

Dear toadaly, First of all cutters do not do it for attention or because of low self-esteem or even depression. Unfortunately we have many who are copy cats and this goes for eating disorders, cutters etc. This type of self abuse have been around for a very long time in various forms such and hitting one’s self, pulling out hair etc. We can date it back 100s of years. A person who is a cutter or self abuser for the most part will not make it know, so they will not dress emo or reveal their scars. Emo’s and the like usually are not cutters and if they are they are most times copy cats. Self-abuse is done for a verity of reasons and most times it has started to deal with a trauma they have experiences at one point in their lives. The person needs psychological attention and behaviour modification to learn to handle their lack of coping skills. So there is much more then most know or even care to know about self-abuse and much more then I can go into here…but this should give you some idea. Sue…good luck

I have always wondered why these children deface their bodies the way that they do. The scars never truly heal. They must have a very low self-esteem.

actually emo has nothing to do with cutting just nowdays a lot of poeople think it does back in the day there still was cutting,and there was also emo… but pain was also relased in other form of self-manipulation…as well as self peircing people whho cut usually do it because its a release for there pain, but some people also do it for attention