My T says it's a tool people use to cope with pain and anger and to try and control our feelings. She says there are better tools and it's important to try and learn more effective coping mechanisms, but she never made me feel like a failure or anything when I cut. I haven't done it in almost 3 weeks now and I'm hoping I won't need to anymore, I'm actually learning some things that work BETTER and last longer than hurting myself, so I definitely have a lot more respect for her as a T. It was becoming like an addiction for me and the problem with that is you always want more and more and you keep kind of chasing the release.