Cutting

Very few things concern me more than things like this article on the practice of "cutting" among young women. Now, having been in High School in the early 1990s, one always heard that such things took place, and Heather can name specific individuals that were into it. The sentence of particular interest, with a daughter on the way, is:

One hopes that you'd see the symptoms of low self esteem before they erupt into this kind of self-destructive behavior. And I am sure we all hope that, if there is a plague of social cutting, that is ceases immediately.