I didn’t know I was a cutter until the first time I chose to cut. I didn’t even know it was a “thing.” I had never heard the phrase “self-harm” back then, in the mid-'80s in Scotland. There were no ...

"I was already primed to turn to cutting when my emotions felt overwhelming," the author writes. (Photo: ljubaphoto via Getty Images) Moments before the session was due to start, I dug through a ...