i cut for about 12 years (from age 16) and it had gotten severe by the time I stopped. I went a little over 5 years without cutting at all. Over the past year I have gotten back into cutting as badly as before, deep enough for stitches each time. Has anyone else relapsed after this long? It's much harder to quit this time. I feel like an idiot. I felt so embarrassed to get stitches at 33.