Is self mutilation (particularly cutting) considered immature by mental health professionals/people in general?

No, they would not consider it immature.

They consider it a sign of other problems. Most likely depression, but anxiety is another possibility.

It is nothing like a three year old throwing a tantrum.

Self inflicting is your body trying to scream at you to get help for the mind. It's *trying* to get notice for you, trying to get medical attention.

Mental health illnesses need mental health doctors. NOT MEDICATION. (imho)

Please go talk to someone. The counselor at your school is a licensed therapist. Their sole reason for being there is for you to have someone you can go to. And they are bound by law to keep anything you say absolutely private.

I suffered through over 20 years of mental health problems before I sought help, fearing it would take forever, it wouldn't work, I'd be too embarrassed to go or to talk... and you know what? My therapist told me that my condition is curable, and I could have saved myself so much agony if I'd just reached out to myself the way I would have reached out to a friend.

Take care of yourself. Treat yourself like a friend. You deserve it.

No, a professional would see this as a symptom of something deeper. It is an unhealthy response to a serious problem that the person either won't or can't face or change.

Very often, cutting is a symptom of some kind of abuse. The person is hurting so badly that the pain of cutting makes the real pain go away for a few moments but in the end, you look like a checkerboard and the real pain is still there.

Your cousin is part fo the same family that got you cutting in the first place. If you had heart disease would you go to the butcher for a cure? He cuts out hearts all the time but is not an expert on the heart of a living organism.

Get professional help. Start with your school guidance counselor and seek a referral to someone who you can really talk to about what is really bothering you instead of turning yourself into a fillet.

best of luck.

Health care professionals are people too, and like all of us, make assumptions. These assumptions are based on accumulated life experiences. There are adults who cut but the numbers drop precipitously as people age and develop other coping behaviours.

Generally, this is not an adult behaviour.

People (often gals) who cut are more often to have other personality markers that would be considered immature. Through experience, health care providers begin to associate the two. These are gross generalizations and whether it applies to you specifically I would not be able to say.

i think some people would consider it immature, but professionals would see it for what it is - a sign that something is wrong with a person, and want to help those that do it, not call you "immature" and "emo" and all that crap that some idiot might throw at you for cutting.

it has nothing to do with maturity and its far from being even similar to a 3 year old throwing a tantrum.

Cutting yourself.. hmm that's very disturbing.. probably what causes this is Mental Problems and Depression.. "Emo" Teenagers nowadays find pleasure by cutting themselves which i find really Strange... and Yes i find it Immature..

Some would think inmature where others think its a mental disorder

many people are afflicted with this habit or addiction...including people much older,and much wiser than your 'cousin'.so no,I dont agree.