Although some people who cut do attempt suicide, it's usually because of the emotional problems and pain that lie behind their desire to self-harm, not the cutting itself.

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It's called many things -- self-inflicted violence, self-injury, self-harm, parasuicide, delicate cutting, self-abuse, self-mutilation (this last particularly seems to annoy people who self-injure).

The third and most common form is Superficial self-mutilation which usually involves cutting, burning, hair-pulling, bone breaking, hitting, interference with wound healing and basically any...

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Get the basic facts about cutting & self-mutilation at gURL! ... Types of Self-Mutilation: Cutting is the most common type of self-mutilation, encompassing 72% of self-injurers. Burning and self

Self-injury: You are NOT the only one ... The way you choose to hurt yourself could be cutting, hitting, burning, scratching, skin-picking, banging your head, breaking bones, not letting wounds

Obviously, the motivations for cutting can lead to other forms of self-mutilation (I used to pull out eyelashes and locks of hair, for instance) besides actual bloodletting.