Had you told me at age 13 I would spend years battling a serious self-harm problem, I would have been utterly baffled. There’s a lot about cutting that I still don’t understand, even having spent years of my life with this symptom.
And that’s the thing: cutting is confusing. It’s confusing and scary to my friends and relatives, it’s hard to explain, and it’s often a big challenge even for me to try to understand what is happening in my very own head.