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The number of adolescents who participate in acts of self-injury is growing exponentially. The forms and severity of self-injury can vary, although the most commonly-seen behaviors are cutting, burning, and head-banging.
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I felt a lot of emotional pain that was
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self-injury
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I was angry that my family was falling
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apart I was stressed out with school I
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was also very sad because I wasn’t sure
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where my life was going I definitely
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believe that self-injury is something
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you do it’s not who you are I felt like
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I couldn’t control myself in a lot of
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ways I couldn’t control my emotions and
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this was my way of controlling myself I
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felt the need to be perfect and
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everything I did and when I wasn’t I
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felt the need to punish myself I never
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felt like I had a choice until I
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realized that there were other
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alternatives and that’s all life is it’s
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full of choices to make I believe for
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self injures the choice to injure or not
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injure is always there now that’s not to
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say that without the correct help that
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people know how to make that choice
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self-injury is not the problem it’s the
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symptom there’s something else going on
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we don’t actually treat self-injury we
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treat everything else that’s underlying
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the self-injury the depression the poor
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self-esteem the anxiety
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