Cutters

"Cutters" defined as people who use their own skin to change their moods, to achieve a little-understood state of psychological awareness through intense pain, and to communicate a message. They use objects such as razor blades, knives, shards of glass, needles; pretty much anything sharp they can get their hands on. Sometimes these "cutters" take the blade to their skin once every couple months, once every week, every day, and sometimes even more frequently. Most are secretive about it, making sure no one, not even their family and closest friends, know anything about their battle with self-harm. In most cases this is because they're scared of being seen as crazy, psychotic, and most of all, attention seeking. Studies have shown that most cases of self-harm start in adolescence, and mostly occur in children with chronic illnesses and a history of abuse of any kind. People who know little or nothing about self-harm, or just dismiss it as something people do for attention talk about people cutting their wrists, but a lot of "cutters" make sure to make their marks remain unseen to people on a daily basis. Such places often include their ribs, thighs, back, and even abdomen.