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No matter how you term a teenager's problem of 'cutting', whether it's Self-Injury, Self-Mutilation or Self-Abuse, it is a growing problem for parents of teens. Find help on these sites.

Self Abuse Collection - Poems Prose Short Stories

Pieces which center around a person's desire to hurt oneself physically from teenagers who were published at the About Teen Writing site.

Classifying Self-harm

The first step in classifying self-harm, as demonstrated by Favazza (1996), is to sort out what makes a type of self-injury pathological, as opposed to culturally-sanctioned. Learn more on this excellent site.

Who self-injures?

Psychological characteristics common in self-injurers.
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