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Cutting Problems in Teens

What is cutting problem?

Cutting problem is a type of self injury which is often seen in girls. The people who are suffering with this problem injure themselves to make scratches or cuts on the body with a sharp object which is enough to break the skin and make lose blood. The places where they make the cuts are usually hands, palms, wrist and bellies. In spite of getting hurt physically, the people who cut can have emotional danger. It can become enough to a habit that some people feel they are addicted to cutting.

Causes of cutting:

It is difficult to understand why people cut themselves. By cutting themselves people try to deal with the pain of strong emotions, severe pressure, or disturbing relationship problems. They may be dealing with such emotions that they are feeling too difficult to bear, or some bad situations they think can't change.

People who may not know better ways to get relief from emotional pain or pressure they cut themselves because they want for relief from bad situations and emotions. Some people cut themselves because they want to express the emotion of anger, grief, denial, anxiety, craving, or meaninglessness.

Some times people self-injure themselves because they have some kind of mental health problems. Cutting problem can be a result of some other challenges such as:

- bipolar disorder
- Depression
- obsessive thinking
- eating disorders or
- Compulsive behaviors
- Having drug or alcohol abuse


What can happen to people who cut:

People who cut themselves usually are not committing suicide. Cutting is a person's attempt at feeling better, not ending it all Cutting can be habit forming. It can result a compulsive behavior. The brain begins to attach the false sense of release from terrible emotions to the act of cutting and it desires this relief the next time anxiety builds. So cutting problem is like an addiction, where stopping to cut themselves can seem impossible. An actions that begins as an effort to experience more in control can end up controlling you.

What to do with this problem:

Mostly people who cut themselves know the bad consequences of cutting .so they want to get rid of their addiction :

Identify the trouble that's triggering the cutting: People should know what are factors that are made them tensed? is it

- anger
- Pressure to be perfect?
- Relationship trouble?
- A painful loss or trauma?
- Mean criticism or mistreatment

Ask for help: There are several treatments and rehab centers that are specifically made for this problem of teen. They offer various programs and therapies which are proved to be very helpful to come out of this teenage problems.