Cutting

I never really “cut” myself, except for one fairly minimal suicide attempt.

However, I often did equivalent actions to myself.

They included:

• Picking at partially-healed scabs until they bled, or even pulling them all the way off. (One brother, both abuser and abused, did the same.)
• Biting and picking at my fingernails until I peeled them back below the “quick” line, which is pretty painful, as well as producing a certain amount of blood.
• Pinching skin almost hard enough to produce blood blisters.