Release in Cutting

I’m not advocating for cutting, self-harm, or suicide, but I am here to write about my experiences with cutting. I feel obligated as a person who doesn’t cut and a responsible adult to talk about how wrong it is, but there are parts of me that view it as right. Perhaps we can write it off as a kink, but this just feels like part of who I was growing up.

I learned about cutting back when I was already a gothic kid around 13. I enjoyed cutting and although when I first started I couldn’t have given it these descriptive words to describe my why, but the release of brain chemicals from cutting was a…