Why I have found you shouldn't cut is that it only gets worse. All it took was one pin prick and I was hooked. That just led to cutting 2X a week which led to 3X which led to everyday. Now it takes more and more for me to get pleasure out of it and have pushed my luck too many times. I know it is hypocritical for me to tell someone they shouldn't cut, cause I refuse to quit for basically the same reason, but all it does is get worse and worse.