Self inflicted pain has been plaguing our generation more so then any other. This article is not meant to judge, exclude, condemn, nor praise anyone whom has tried this. So what is making our generation more prone to self harm then the generations before us? Well to be honest I don’t really have an answer for that, all I have is my opinion. In today’s world, especially in high school, teens are confronted with more and more problems each day. In previous years, back in the day, the amount of judgment or peer pressure put on a classmate was significantly less. As done in a study by the university of Virginia, 74% of students in 2004 said that they felt peer pressure from teachers and/or fellow classmates. This is compared to 58% in 1990. Over these few couple years the amount teens that feel pressured has risen 16%! I believe in schools today so much of what we look like, act like, do, say, and even think is being judged by our fellow peers. This judgment forces us to be “the same” as everyone else, or to be “cool”. A way for these teens to vent or make the pain go away is through a number of things, mostly cutting. Now we all know what cutting is and I’m sure every single one of us would have a different opinion on what causes this. Personally I have never cut, however I have many close friends who have and I asked them what made them do it and why. One said that “I was so stressed, causing physical pain made me focus less on my crying and more on an emotion I can control.” If your one of those people that sit back and say “Wow cutters are just emo kids looking for attention” NEWS FLASH Your probably one of the people that make them cut in the first place ,by judging them on other then who they are on the inside.

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Teen Magazine Writer