the bleeding_beauty's definitions

cutting

V. The act of inflicting wounds upon oneself often to deal with overwhelming stress/trauma/ect; a form of self-injury/mutilation.

It is often associated with depression and emo music, and has become a bit of a "fad" with people today.

It often becomes an addiction due to the brain associating it with realease from stress, trauma, tension, ect.

Jaimie was molested when she was a child and the trauma has caused her to begin cutting.

by the bleeding_beauty August 13, 2005