Freya, you posted about "cutters".
@Freya @TomSea@mystery-ak @CatherineofAragon Cutters: A person cuts him/her self in order to punish him/her self for something they did or thought they did.
I had a patient who had cut her arms over and over. Her father had hanged himself in a public park and she thought she was the one who made him do that, so she was cutting herself to punish herself. She was not responsible for him doing that.
She was also not sleeping and Texas Rehab. sent her to me to find her problem so she could sleep, as they wanted her to get a driver's license but could not if she was not sleeping at all. She would have minute type nod offs, but no actual sleeping.
In the course of working with her, I asked her to describe her bedroom. It was dark with the blinds closed, there was a picture of her father on a table top with plastic flowers around it. Her father was in a cemetery too far away for her to visit. I said to her, "You have made your bedroom the cemetery." She said, "You are smart, aren't you?" She was afraid to sleep, afraid since her bedroom was the cemetery, he might come back to life and be in her bedroom.
I asked her if she could take out the flowers. She said, "No, if I did that, I would die." I asked her if she could take ONE flower out. She said she could. I had her take one flower out every week until they were all gone. I asked her to open the blinds of her room and remove her father's picture. She did that, and started sleeping all night. Texas Rehab. got her a driver's license, and a job at the local college and sign up for college courses. She had her life back. As a result of helping her, Texas Rehab. started sending me their "worst" cases. A number of them were career criminals.