The Tender Cut

Cutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cutargues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, An expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain.