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The Facts Behind Self-Injury

Self-injury, self-harm or self-mutilation is defined as a deliberate, intentional injury to one’s own body that causes tissue damage or leaves marks. This is done to cope with an overwhelmingly stressful...

44 comments    therapist cutting burning
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Henna and self Mutilating; Harm Reduction

Katie, a talented Hubber here, gave me the inspiration and permission to talk about this and had also not heard of these treatments. So if you are reading this and it applies to you, please you must read Self...

12 comments    health love life
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Teens and Plastic Surgery

This morning, I read a disturbing article at ABC News that stated teens-those under 18 years of age-were getting plastic surgery at an alarming rate these days. In fact, that the number of teens going under...

3 comments    health plastic surgery anorexia
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Understanding Self Harm is Important

If you have found this page chances are you or someone you know practices self harm. This behavior can be very scary and confusing, even for the person who is engaging in self harm. I...

3 comments    recovery cutting self harm
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Childhood Dystopia

I feel I need to share here some of my past and my story since I may and have made references on other hub pages I have written.  I hope that this will help any readers understand where exactly I have...

2 comments    healing abuse recovery
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The Basics of Self-Injurious Behavior

Self-Injurious Behavior, also known as Self-Mutilation (or more commonly Cutting), describes behaviors in which an individual causes physical harm to their own body. While making small cuts on one’s arms or...

5 comments    depression emo cutting
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What Parents Need to Know About Cutting

Cutting, also known as self-injury or self-mutilation is the practice of manipulating a mood or emotional state by inflicting physical harm on a person's own body. Many people who do this will cut themselves,...

12 comments    family children parenting
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How To Detect Teenage Depression

Teenage Depression And How You Can Detect It Parents often feel that their teenagers are purposely rebelling against them to make a statement or get attention whether it be negative or positive. They could...

1 comment    anxiety teens substance abuse
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Autism social stories - autism self-injurious behavior

Self-injury is probably one of the most distressing and difficult behaviors that any parent, carer, family member and autistic person can be faced with. Mostly the causes of this behavior are quite...

0 comments    health autistic child
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self injury

I am 22 years old and a former self-harmer.I started when I was very little.I was so young that I didn't even recognize that it was self-injury.I came from a family who fought and when they would yell and...

0 comments    health depression pain
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