Cutters essays

Cutters essays Can you imagine cutting you arm and/or legs, with a razor blade- on impulse? Good morning/afternoon fellow teachers and students of St. Ursula School. I am here to talk to you about a topic that is starting to become very common among teenagers, But you might not hear that much of it because all of them keep it as a secret. And its not just a secret, its a disturbing, dangerous secret fueled by feelings of loneliness, rejection and whatever leads to depression in teenagers lives. The topic I am talking about goes by many different names: self-mutilation, self-injuring, self-abuse the new age anorexia AKA cutting. For those of you who still might not have a clue what Im talking about, self-mutilation is a persons attempt to intentionally cause harm to him or herself, resulting in an injury thats usually bad enough to cause skin damage. For example some people burn, some people cut, some people hit themselves, some pull out their hair, some break their bones, and some prevent existing wombs from healing. But cutting is the most popular method, so I choose to focus mainly that. Many teenagers today are very sensitive to rejection, either from their family members, friends or in their love life. Almost any depressing or upsetting thought can activate a cutter. 10% of teenage girls are cutters, and apparently cutting is mostly found among girls, though more and more boys are being known. The way they mostly see self-mutilation in boys is they tend to burn themselves. You might wonder how these teenagers do not get caught? It is because they normally perform it behind closed and locked doors, like in their bedroom and or bathroom, and cutters will use any thing with a sharp or jagged edge on it to cut such as: safety pins, scissors, razor blades, knives, etc. Its almost impossible to remove the items away from them, and if u succeed by doing so they will find another way to harm them s...