Masochism, the irrational self-infliction of pain, is more easily defined than understood. Once, a teacher used the word "cutting" only reference to a student skipping class. But, in recent years, it has taken on additional meaning. Cutting, or self-injury, is a deliberate self-harming behavior but without conscious suicidal ideation. To define cutting is neither to explain nor understand it. By mere definition, tattooing, body piercing, and cosmetic dermabrasion are acts of self-mutilation. Although painful, such alterations of the body are purposeful in a way many people consider positive. Cutters are not psychotic, but they are neurotic, and, like all people with neurosis, they are trying to manage unpleasant emotions. They are misguided in their effort at coping because they are trading one emotion for another without therapeutic effect. In this article, the author discusses how to help students who have turned violence on themselves, in the form of nonsuicidal act of cutting themselves. Among others, it is important to show patience and understanding with them in order for them to devote their attention needs to be directed, rather than toward interpersonal conflicts with teachers.