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I for one... think it's just problems that everyone has to deal with, it's just some people deal with their problems in different ways. Like some people think well since I've got problems at home or my parents don't notice me blah blah blah I'll be a little s**t at school and get told off and have millions of detentions and get into fights ect.
I think some people just take cutting as an excuse to make everything go away... or as my counciller said to make sure I'm 'still alive' or 'to have some distraction from the self hate, emotional pain ect'
But I don't know... stare

cutting helps me in many ways but it doesn't mean it's the right way to
solve things i've been trying to stop...but im addicted
and im sick of people labeling you just by how you cope alot of
people have different coping methods not all people cut their are
other forms of self mutilation.

I don't cut...I have a problem; my mum does but she doesn't know that I know

I am an ex-cutter. But I started doing it before the emo craze came about. I haven't cut for almost two years (july). Around the time I was trying to quit, I noticed that more and more people were being seen with cuts on their arms, even showing them off. It's ridiculous. There are those who cut because of a mental illness, and then there are those who do it for fashion. They think it's cool to want to die. They think it's cool to hurt yourself just to show your friends. The real cutters, you will never be able to tell. The people that really do it to release emotions hide it, they don't galavant it around for the world to see.
Yes the media is partially to blame, but the rest of it is just the want to be like everyone else.

FYI, ITS NOT FUN TO HAVE MENTAL DISORDERS

i hate people who cut themselves then show everybody their arms like "OH MY GOSH, i'm so "emo" because i cut myself". yea right, your as emo as simple plan rolleyes . that makes you a ******** poser.

eh, cutting is just a way to deal with issues like drinking, burning, and drugs are, etc... people just tend to deal with issues different ways.

but i have to agree, the media over the last few years have hyped up cutting to an "emo" thing to do. gah i hate it. any one can be a cutter/into self mutilation.

Mm. I was talking to a guy called Adam in my Math's class and he said to me 'You seen that girl, Leah? In my class? She is some wannabe emo. She doesn't even slit her wrists. She isn't emo'
I think most people stereotype emo's for just cutting.
It could be true, because nearly every 'emo' I know, used to cut or still does. Media is influential I suppose. But stress and all that other shiz is probably a main factor.