I don't cut them. I scrape at them with my fingernails, under the eyelids which causes them to kind of create thick mucus which I scrape off the insides of my top and bottom eyelids and my eyes underneath the eyelids. I pull my lower ones down and put my fingers under them to do this and either do thr same thing or flip my upper ones inside out. Sometimes I Scrape and pick at them for 8 hrs straight instead of sleeping. It hurts really really badly but I wouldn't stop. Before I started working on this I was probably doing it at least 40 hours a week. My eyes were often swollen/infected/so blurry I could barely see my computer at work, I would need to use a warm cloth to get them "unglued" in the morning from all the dried mucusy stuff. Psych said it was kind of comparable to something like dermatillomanis but also kind of more SI.