Teens and Cutting
There is new research released today by the American Academy of Pediatrics on self-mutilation among students--where they literally harm themselves, mostly because they are hurting psychologically.
It if weren’t such a large, random study, the numbers would be unbelievable. But this is a huge study, and the results should be a wake-up call to all parents, and to kids also.
Now, it almost doesn’t make sense at first: taking a knife to your own arm, and cutting yourself. “It is something that you can’t understand it unless you have done it. It started in about ninth grade probably. I think I actually saw it on TV and that is how I got the idea,” recalls 21 year-old Kassie.
It’s called cutting—a now common form of self-injury behavior…behavior that has, apparently, become rampant among teens and college students like Kassie. (Read more about Teens and Cutting)
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