Cutting bouts are generally precipitated by an experience—real or perceived— of loss or abandonment. Self-injurers are acutely sensitive to abandonment. Because they never properly attached to and then separated from their early caretakers, they live in a perpetual state of separation anxiety so intense it feels annihilating.
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Cutting bouts are generally precipitated by an experience—real or perceived— of loss or abandonment. Self-injurers are acutely sensitive to abandonment. Because they never properly attached to and then separated from their early caretakers, they live in a perpetual state of separation anxiety so intense it feels annihilating.