If you think you can reduce that to zero by yourself , that ' s great . But you ' re missing my point . It ' s not about the severity of cuts , it ' s about the fact it happens at all . And you yourself have written that you would slice even worse if you were found out about therapy . What if somebody from the family finds out you cut ? You can be as discrete as possible , but unpredictable things do happen . If you ' re already open to the possibility of making worse cuts , how can you be sure it won ' t happen ? It ' s good that your scars aren ' t lifethreatening don ' t get me wrong . But it is obviously addictive and like with addictive behavior in general , you can ' t ever be sure it won ' t get worse except if you work towards getting better even by yourself if you don ' t wont to go to a doctor that badly .