OriginalWench
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Cutting is a coping mechanism. Not a very healthy one, for the most part, but that's what it is. It doesn't mean the cutter (or burner, or bruiser, or whatever other injury one is causing to themselves) is sick or insane, simply that they have never learned other, better methods for dealing with stress, pain, abuse, trauma, or strong feelings or emotions. Often it is the ONLY tool they have at the time. Others have other tools, some bad, some good. I am a cutter, though I have only cut once in the last 12 years. In periods of stress, cutting is something I want to turn to, but I've learned other coping mechanisms, and so far, those have worked before I felt I had to turn to cutting. I don't particularly find beauty or good things in cutting, other than the fact that it kept me from doing more drastic things. I'm not really into pain, even now, except for relatively minor pain. I have enough already, I don't need any more. I'm not sure that I would refer to cutting as an 'alternative lifestyle', any more than I would refer to anorexia as one. (As someone was was also anorexic, I am pretty familiar with that as well. Yeah, so I had some pretty severe issues, and some that I'm still working on.) But others might feel that way, and that's okay for them. I do have to sort of agree with LadyLamentia though, how much different is it if you inflict pain on yourself, or you want someone else to inflict it on you?
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