For many teens and preteens, cutting is a sign that they are dealing with emotional distress or mental illness. While some teens call attention to their cuts, others hide them out of shame. Many teens cut for a long time before anyone else knows. If you suspect that your student is cutting or doing other self-harm, talk to a school counselor, school psychologist, school nurse, principal, or designated crisis team.
Teens who self-injure should be referred to mental health specialists. Reviewed by: Mary L. Kirsten began cutting when she was 13 years old after her father made an insensitive comment about her acne. Her self-esteem, she says, was already low. Penny, 36, first cut herself when she was 15 years old as a way of dealing with the emotional pain of having been raped by a family friend.
She cut when she was depressed and would shut down emotionally. SIRRR reports that self-harm can be cyclical. Someone may cut frequently and then stop for long periods before relapsing. After suffering physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her older brother, she cut herself from ages 11 to People who cut often describe a specific type of high, relief, connectedness, or sense of calm. The euphoria Brandy describes may be attributed to endorphins the body releases when we get injured.
Sinh explains. Another woman we spoke to, Ariel, 21, started cutting when she was 17 years old. I cut myself because I was bored. I justified my reasons and came up with excuses because I loved it. An NPR article reports that cutting dates back to ancient Greece as a coping mechanism. Researchers also agree that rates of NSSI have increased over the last decade and a half , but studies on the topic are somewhat new and rates are hard to assess. It can also be a sign of mental health problems that cause people to have trouble controlling their impulses or to take unnecessary risks.
Some people who cut themselves have problems with drug or alcohol abuse. Some people who cut have had a traumatic experience, such as living through abuse , violence, or a disaster. Self-injury may feel like a way of "waking up" from a sense of numbness after a traumatic experience.
Or it may be a way of reliving the pain they went through, expressing anger over it, or trying to get control of it. Although cutting may provide some temporary relief from a terrible feeling, even people who cut agree that it isn't a good way to get that relief.
For one thing, the relief doesn't last. The troubles that triggered the cutting remain — they're just masked over. People don't usually intend to hurt themselves permanently when they cut.
And they don't usually mean to keep cutting once they start. But both can happen. It's possible to misjudge the depth of a cut, making it so deep that it requires stitches or, in extreme cases, hospitalization. Cuts can become infected if a person uses nonsterile or dirty cutting instruments — razors, scissors, pins, or even the sharp edge of the tab on a can of soda.
Most people who cut aren't attempting suicide. Cutting is usually a person's attempt at feeling better, not ending it all. Although some people who cut do attempt suicide, it's usually because of the emotional problems and pain that lie behind their desire to self-harm, not the cutting itself. Cutting can be habit forming. It can become a compulsive behavior — meaning that the more a person does it, the more he or she feels the need to do it.
The brain starts to connect the false sense of relief from bad feelings to the act of cutting, and it craves this relief the next time tension builds. When cutting becomes a compulsive behavior, it can seem impossible to stop.
So cutting can seem almost like an addiction, where the urge to cut can seem too hard to resist. A behavior that starts as an attempt to feel more in control can end up controlling you. Cutting often begins on an impulse. It's not something the person thinks about ahead of time.
Shauna says, "It starts when something's really upsetting and you don't know how to talk about it or what to do. But you can't get your mind off feeling upset, and your body has this knot of emotional pain. Before you know it, you're cutting yourself. And then somehow, you're in another place. Then, the next time you feel awful about something, you try it again — and slowly it becomes a habit.
Natalie, a high-school junior who started cutting in middle school, explains that it was a way to distract herself from feelings of rejection and helplessness she felt she couldn't bear. I guess part of me must have known it was a bad thing to do, though, because I always hid it. This kind of tool is common both in household and industrial use, and traditional cutters are a major cause of laceration injuries in the workplace.
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