Why does everyone assume you are a cutter when you say you self harm, when there!
Question:
Why does everyone assume you are a cutter when you say you self harm, when there are so many other ways?
Answers:
I think for the same reasons that when people have a mental illness, most uninformed people wrongly assume it means they're axe murderers that need locking up.
There is such a stigma to self harming, and the media when it does do any articles always only focus on cutting. There are never any researched and well informed articles that the general public could read and learn from.