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No because of mental issues, nor for attention, but through boredom (and because kids did that sort of thing at my school), and many years ago during my early teens, yes.
OH.. I erased the skin off the back of my hand in the 5th grade with an ERASER. Everyone did that, for some reason. I can't even remember what it was called when you did that.
Yeah, that's the sort of thing I meant. And slicing your cuticles with a pencil-sharpening blade, or running the pin from a badge under your skin. Lame kid stuff.
There was a guy in my maths class who burrowed a hole almost all the way through the palm of his hand and did it with a scalpel and a biro, so it was all blue. Needless to say, he had mental issues.
I have flirted with the idea of jumping out windows I pass by when in a high-rise situation. But I live in a ground-floor apartment, and my new office has no windows. Looks like I'm safe for the time being.