...Cutters often have an extremely short "time horizon." When overwhelmed with negative emotions, they believe that they have always felt this bad, and cannot imagine feeling better twenty minutes or twenty years from now. "So life is very much lived in the here and now and often it's lived without any history," he explains. "If they're feeling rejected or abused by someone, any memory of that person as a caring individual is lost."
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...Cutters often have an extremely short "time horizon." When overwhelmed with negative emotions, they believe that they have always felt this bad, and cannot imagine feeling better twenty minutes or twenty years from now. "So life is very much lived in the here and now and often it's lived without any history," he explains. "If they're feeling rejected or abused by someone, any memory of that person as a caring individual is lost."