The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104243   Message #2132154
Posted By: katlaughing
23-Aug-07 - 02:31 PM
Thread Name: BS: say, parents... (teenage self-mutilation)
Subject: RE: BS: say, parents...
That's about what I've heard from my daughter who knew a young girl who cut herself. I think it is obviously another form of self-hate, too.

Cutting as evidenced in Wesley's link is what we've always called "scarring" and has been used throughout tribal societies as a right-of-passage, etc. That, to me, is totally different than a young person self-mutilating.