Cutters

[BrOwNrIcE]

Views on issue

[Jennifer Gardner]

I think there are a lot of people who show their ignorance by claiming a certain person self-injures. In other words it's the Emo or the girl who wants attention. What if a person self-injures and no one ever knows it? Lots of people implement coping mechanisms that aren't healthy whether it's binge eating junk food, alcoholic beverage consumption, drugs, smoking, getting behind the wheel of a car and speeding down the freeway to "blow off some steam", engaging in risky sexual behavior, etc. For some reason self-injury is the poor coping mechanism that gets the most ignorant ridicule and stereotypes associated with it.

An important thing to understand is that self-injury is dangerous and a person should strive to get help and find alternate coping strategies.

[Chris James]

Cutters are suicidals that lack motivation.

[Chris James]

Quit cryin, sally. The majority of cutter cases are these fuckin little emo kids living in the suburbs with no real problems. If you feel the need to advertise your lack of ability to cope with being a spoiled baby, then I reserve the right to poke fun at you for it.

[Aline]

Talking about an addiction to cutting or the broken addiction is like screaming “FIRE!” in the movie theaters…you just don’t do it. But that’s not how it should be. If people aren’t ridiculed for speaking openly about their addictions, past or present, to drugs, alcohol, etc., why are people so quick to freak out when the subject of cutting is brought up? It doesn’t make sense.
It’s taken me a long time to not sound timid when I’ve admitted to cutting myself. And there are some people that I just can’t envision myself telling but that’s not because I’m afraid they’re gonna freak out. It’s just not something that gets talked about very often. Because it hurts. Maybe not because it causes me to relive some of the things that happened in my life that cutting was a result of but because up until I started doing it, I never thought I would. Boy was I wrong…I went from thinking I’d never start cutting to convincing myself I’d never be strong enough to stop.
Some of you might be thinking that cutters are just attention whores, excuse the language. That might be part of it for some, but not for all. Mostly, cutting is what happens when you feel like you have no other voice to express yourself with. Or that any other voice you might have isn’t doing what you want. I’m not saying everybody who cuts flaunts their wounds. Again, maybe some do but I’ve never met anyone who didn’t hide the fact that they were cutting underneath their clothes or maybe even a plastic smile.
All I know is that someone’s gotta say something. Make people see that it’s okay to say you’ve struggled with cutting or at the very least, you considered it a time or two in the past.
The scars will all go away some day but that doesn’t mean the painful experiences you went through that caused you to create the cuts that have scarred will fade. As you get older and mature more, you’ll understand that there are other ways of dealing with pain. And no matter what option you choose, you never have to face it alone.
Let me end by saying that stereotyping “emo” kids as cutters or the other way around is crap. Anybody you know in life could be struggling with this. From the captain of the football team to the brown noser and anyone in between those two types of people you meet. You wanna know what’s scarier…it could be your best friend!
Let’s stop pretending like cutting isn’t a real problem and do something to stop it. Don’t turn a blind eye to it or act like you’re gonna be physically ill at the sight of scars on someone’s arm or legs. Lead them in the direction of hope that things will get better. Even if it means holding their hand the whole way through the process. Don’t leave them to fight the battle on their own. It doesn’t work…

[Leah Rachelle❤]

Well, I just want to say, without reading the replies, or anything, that My view on it happens to be that there are so many reasons people do it, some people do it for attention. Some people do it because they want to feel pain. And some do it to control things.

I did it, and I did it because I wanted to be able to control SOMETHING in my life. And I did it because I thought that the outside pain would help me feel less of the emotional pain.

I do NOT cut anymore. But when I did, it did help for a little bit.

Now, I do not think that most people that cut do it for legitimate reasons. I do think that most people that cut do it because they want to show people, people that will think its cool, or people that will feel sorry for them. Now, There are some people that really do this because it is something that they feel the need to do, something that they do to hep themselves.


Thats all I have to say.

[DinaKillsAgain]

attention -yes, but also a cry for help.

[iSeeDumbPeople]

I hate people who do it because they think it's cool and how it's turned into a trend in schools with stores like Hot Topic, or when musicians promote that type of stuff in their songs - why are they singing about cutting? surely with the money they make, they can't be that fucked up ya know?
In my view, if you are passed your teen years and still cutting, you need some major professional help. Your body is fully grown and your hormones should be in tact by now. And also [hopefully] you're smart enough to make your own decisions about stuff, and you can get a job, get money, move out of your [fucked up?] life and change your life for the better.

[iSeeDumbPeople]

[bi-polarII]

Murder seems repulsive when applied by another, but
Vanishing in the night of self-aggression is accepted,
Welcomed in a society that doubts the strength of
Determination: the wishes made in dark bedrooms
While holding gauze to new reasons for keeping secrets
The lacerations that resemble brilliant beauty and/or defects

Voices are small comfort. Expression is just another
Form of rejection used to quietly judge my talent
For survival: my skill for changing mood ensures
Second thoughts before desecrating the hallowed
Ground of my heart: hope that's as fragile as skin;
The turmoil that writhes obsessed and violent within

I remain alone and call it pathological; the cause for dependence,
Reasons I rift madness and disorder into smoke; become aware
Of quivering lungs, held breath that silently keeps me alive:
Buried protests to the magnificence of asphyxia, the narcotic
Emancipation of perceiving emotion, freedom from distress:
The sorrow that consumes and torments, which I refuse to express

Need is words that diminish into touch, the advent of two
Mouths sharing space: comfort that comes with content
Or wraps like minds in acceptance. Affinity that shapes
Strangers from anonymous into intimate, brings them
From desperation to the sharing of the same embrace
The reason that I could stare all day at your beautiful face

[Jivan Yakoob]

I think cutting is a serious mental illness. Would someone say an anorexic, bulimic, or schizophrenic person acts out for attention? Yes, there are some that do it for the attention, but those don't truly suffer from the disease.

[Chill Pill]

do cutters ever get together and cut each other? it'd be more, something, that way

[Kayra Jordyn]

Yes.