Wounding Wilma Stops Cutting Herself

A cutter, after cutting on their own body, has to concentrate upon the blood, the bandage, or even how they can cover up the fact that they have performed the cutting act. Sometimes hours, months, and years have been on emotional scars. The cut provides a strange relief. This relief (not the actual cutting) is what is desired and needed so greatly by the depressed individual.

Focus on emotional problems and secrets kept for years seem to be one of the causes of the obsessions one might have to cut their own bodies. Cutters will share how for them before they actually do the cutting, mutilating or slicing on their skin, that they have by that time spent many hours and even days thinking about harming their own body. Therefore, now you can see the other reason that the behavior continues is that the cutter believes it will cause their mind to stop contemplating the cutting action. The sad truth is that the relief from the mind is short lived. The cycle begins all over again and can continue until the cutter makes a decision to take a risk and begin to share with someone what his or her secrets might be. Once a cutter starts to share with a trusted listener about the things that has "cut" or scarred them in the past; their 'Reality Recovery' can begin.

A physician who truly cared about Wilma treated her wounds; and like me in 1990, she was placed in a caring and loving thirty-day treatment center. Real life finally began for her as it can for you too. When she checked into the hospital, the harmful items she brought with her (including the bobbie pins) were taken away. Wilma was placed on 'watch' for a couple of weeks while she shared about the horrors of her abuse. Daily she healed. Care and love channeled into her replacing the need to channel by the cutting acts. Understanding replaced the paranoia. Solution replaced Wilma's obsessions to hurt her body. By the end of the thirty days (and now almost thirteen years later), Wilma has not had to harm herself one time. The cutting has ended.

Please remember tears do cleanse the soul, so have a good cry instead of picking up another blade today. Go one day and then two and then three and do not cut on yourself. You too, if you will only begin to tell

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