What is cutting/self mutilation?
A. Cutting or other forms of self-mutilation are wilful injury to oneself, often – but not always – by using something sharp. Obviously, the motivations for cutting can lead to other forms of self-mutilation ( e.g. pulling out eyelashes and locks of hair, or head-banging, for instance) besides actual bloodletting. The key point is that all of them hurt, and all of them cause some sort of damage to one’s body.
