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crazy. “The most annoying thing for me to hear about myself is that I’m trying to make people have a pity party for me,” she told Rolling Stone . “Everything that I’ve gone through has been dramatized by the people who’ve written about it, not by me. I’m just saying, ‘This happened to me, this happened to a lot of people.’ Why should I hide shit? Why does that give people a bad opinion of me? It’s a reality. A lot of people do it.”
    Probably the most famous self-injurer of all was Princess Diana, who talked about it and other disorders in a 1995 interview with the BBC. She revealed that she had frequently cut her arms and legs over the years. “You have so much pain inside yourself that you try and hurt yourself on the outside because you want help,” she explained at the time. According to Andrew Morton’s definitive biography, Diana: Her True Story , the troubled princess—who also acknowledged a struggle with bulimia—had often thrown herself into a glass cabinet at Kensington Palace and cut herself with the serrated edge of a lemon slicer. Once, during a heated argument with Prince Charles, she reportedly picked up a pen knife and cut her chest and thighs. Another time, during a fight with Charles on an airplane, Diana locked herself in the bathroom, cut her arms, and smeared the blood over the cabin walls and seats.
    The actress Christina Ricci has also publicly discussed her history of self-injury. In a 1988 interview with US Weekly magazine, Ricci showed the interviewer a small, smile-shaped scar on her hand. “I was trying to impress Gaby [Hoffmann, her best friend]. So I heated up a lighter and pressed it on my hand.” Revealing a number of other burn scars on her hands and arms, she explained, “I wanted to see if I can handle pain. It’s sort of an experiment to see if I can handle pain.” In a different interview, she revealed that she sometimes puts cigarettes out on her arms. Asked whether it hurts, she replied, “No. You get this endorphin rush. You can actually faint from pain. It takes a second, a little sting, and then it’s like you really don’t feel anything. It’s calming actually.” In Rolling Stone magazine she went further. “It’s like having a drink. But it’s quicker,” she told them . “You know how your brain shuts down from pain? The pain would be so bad, it would force my body to slow down, and I wouldn’t be as anxious. It made me calm.”
    Perhaps the most surprising celebrity self-injurer, however, is Johnny Depp, who has scars up and down his arms from the days when he used to cut himself. “It was really just whatever; good times, bad times, it didn’t matter,” he told Talk magazine about his former habit. “There was no ceremony. It wasn’t like ‘Okay, this just happened, I have to go hack a piece of my flesh off.’” In another interview in 1993 he explained the still-visible scars: “My body is a journal in a way. It’s like what sailors used to do, where every tattoo meant something, a specific time in your life when you make a mark on yourself, whether you do it yourself with a knife or with a professional tattoo artist.”
    Over the years, the mental health profession has struggled to figure out how to classify and treat self-injury, especially among adolescents. The most frequent diagnosis appears to be borderline personality disorder (BPD), though critics insist that such a label is a rush to judgment. One of the foremost researchers into the disorder is Marsha Linehan, director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington. She believes that, while self-injury often fits into this category, diagnosing a personality disorder requires an understanding of a person’s long-term pattern of functioning, which often gets ignored. “That this does not happen,” she writes, “is evident in the increasing numbers of teenagers being diagnosed as borderline … One wonders what justification is used for