Lisa Verde

“The things I read about cutters and cutting seem to trivialize it. Yet, hardly anyone does it past adolescence, and almost none of the cutting sessions end in suicide. To me that would indicate that it is a part of the coping toolset of a young person who would really like to live through something. And like surgical scars, it’s a marker: There was a sickness there, and someone endeavored to remove it.”
― Lisa Verde, Confessions Of A Cutter: A True Story of Sexual Abuse, Self Mutilation, and Recovery