Wendy,
Thanks for your reply and advise within it. I appreciate your thoughts on this matter. Your right I guess it really isn't necessary for me to feel like I have to conform to text book answers regarding this subject matter. We are all different and we all have different reasons like you said for doing what we do. I think I do project onto my therapist at times in my mind I assume people want to hear that text book answer so when my therapist asks me why I cut I almost always give her the, well what I consider, "text book" answer even when I don't always 100 percent agree with that answer myself. I know deep down I am afraid of being judged as being weird or mean, etc. for occasionally using my cutting for other reasons that many people don't elaborate on well not as much. Thanks again for your insight!
Jenn

Jennifer