girls cutting

jym626
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:31:33 +0000

In the earlier days of research on cutting behaviors, there was a belief that people (usually females) did it to “feel”, sometimes because they did not feel real, and the bleeding and pain was “real”. A more current theory is that many cutters feel little control over many aspects of their life, especially things that are emotionally painful. Cutting is a way to control pain-- they can control when it starts and when it stops.