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I take a knife and place it to my wrist and cut deep watching the blood drip down ever so slowly, one drop at a time relieving me of the pain I feel making it so every one can see, They can see my pain but no one help me because I am different BECAUSE I cut and not cry, they all are too late any way my blood is running down my arm I feel a little less pain now I am just a mutation of the human race I don’t belong all I can do is just cut. By: Darshana Dave Did you know that the prevalence of self-injurious behavior is put in the range of 700 to 1,400 cases per 100,000 population (Self Injury-A Search). Self mutilation is a serious mental disease and it does have specific causes, it also is very hard to detect and even harder to treat. A self mutilator is hard to point out because some of the “Normal” or “Average” looking people are self mutilators. Most of them have a mental illness and they don’t even know about it. When they are confronted by others, they tend to close their self out from the rest of the world. That is why it is very important to confront them with caution because it just might push them off the edge. Most people don’t know what self mutilation is. Self mutilation is when a person deliberately harms body tissue without the conscious intent to commit suicide. It is an intentional act (Self Injury-A Search). This type of act is also a voluntary act of harming themselves (Now Chang-Self Mutilation). Self-Injurious behavior or SIB is also referred to as self-harm, self-abuse, and self-mutilation (When The Cut). Most mutilators self injure by scaring , burning, carving, and even picking and pulling off the own skin and hair (Now Change-Self Mutilation). The most common mutilator is a cutter. Cutters are people who cut their own skin with sharp objects such as razors and knives. Cutters also cause major tissue damage and profuse bleeding. The is the most dangerous type of self mutilation because some of these people cut deep into their arms and may cut a vein or two and die (When The Cut). The second most dangerous mutilator is a person who carves or burners.
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