[ViLaLuz]

It's a mental illness. The children are going insane.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I just found out this week that my 14-year-old daughter is a "cutter." She has a 4.0 average, 8th grade, goes to a good school, and is well-liked by all who know her. She is popular, has two homes (mine AND HER DAD'S) with supportive, loving families in each. Her own friends cut, too: four of them that I know of now between the ages of 11 and 14 ... [a]s do her two cousins, ages 11 and 15.

Yes, popular culture is to blame for her tragic circumstances.

WHEN WILL THOSE SOCIAL MISCREANTS IN HOLLYWOOD EVER LEARN???!!!

(Prolonged eye roll.)

[G.Mason]

"It's a mental illness. The children are going insane."

How many children do you have that are 13- 16? None? I didn't think so.

The only thing new about this garbage is that the "Hollyweirds" are helping out with the phase.

As a father of 4 boys and one girl, all of whom are over 35 years of age, I can tell you this is but one aspect of maturation and discovery.

[mlmr]

People have been doing this for years and years. It is an attention seeking device for the numb.

I see people who do this up to the age of 60. It is a dramatic way of saying I hurt.

Focus on the psych issues and not the blood.

[tai-pan]

It's been around for years too.

[mdmathis6]

Endorphin release to handle undiagnosed depression. ECT does that too!

[Aquinasfan]

It's a mental illness. The children are going insane.

Yes. And we wouldn't want schools to spread the dangerous idea that the human person is created in the image and likeness of God.

[68 grunt]

It's a mental illness. The children are going insane.

The faux righteousness and deceit of the parents cause this. Truth and humility are the anecdote.

[traumer]

Need more Ritalin !

[A Ruckus of Dogs]

Today it's cutting. Years ago it was anorexia.

[wowitslikdgurl]

actually its not a mental illness. as a teenager who is currently a cutter, its not an illness. alot of the people who are posting comments on this article are not teenagers or have not gone through the same mental state that transfers into cutting as these “idiot” teenagers such as myself have. i do not mean to be rude or come off in such a way but i do want you and all the other adults who continue to assume false logic, to know that while that may be true for some of the teenagers today, it is only a small amount of them and that the others, like myself, are not mentally ill in any way
thank you