I feel awful for you but remember the great progress you've made and keep trucking!!!!! It does get easier I promise :).
I may be backing myself into a corner a bit here but it seems to me the 'emo culture' has romanticised things like cutting, it seems a good way to get attention and oddly enough fit in. I had a friend who 'self-harmed' because a group of people she was bent on getting in with (and in particular a boy she liked) were all into that sort of stuff so she was trying to get into him by saying she did it too. It's disgusting. Self harming is a very sensitive topic and for her to say she'd tell anyone, especially as a threat, is such a horrible, ugly thing! The sight of a friend's self inflicted injuries should be shocking and appalling to a true friend not something you want to see but she's obviously morbidly interested. She doesn't sound like much of a friend at all to me :S
On the flip side she could be going through some serious issues of her own and this is how it's expressed. When she cuts she may feel it deep inside and showing them off is her (showy and annoying) cry for help so if you do talk with her remember to be sensitive to her feelings even if she may not have given you the same kindness. But as I said she may just be an immature person who doesn't really understand the severity of it and is caught up in a craze.
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