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A new study has found that YouTube videos depicting cutting and other forms of self-harm are disturbingly popular. But they may actually be helping sufferers, rather than encouraging their behavior. More »
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Though it's estimated that 2 to 8 millions Americans self-injure, from cutting to the newly-reported practice of self-embedding, doctors still can't agree on whether self-injury itself is a disorder, or how to treat it. More »
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Sometimes the New York Times is a little late to the party, so the "Growing Wave Of Teenage Self-Injury" story isn't really "news," per se, but yeah: Cutting is on the rise. Over the weekend I was on a college campus and saw a young lady in a tank top sitting outside of an ice cream parlor. Her hair was pinkish red, her knee socks were striped and her left arm was covered in razor slices — in various stages of healing — from shoulder to wrist. Writes the Times' Jane Brody: "There are no exact numbers for this largely hidden problem, but anonymous surveys among college students suggest that 17% of them have self-injured, and experts estimate that self-injury is practiced by 15% of the general adolescent population." Janis Whitlock, a psychologist doing an eight-college study on self-injury, says that the Internet is spreading the word, prompting many to try it who might not otherwise have known about it. And while some people can't understand why anyone would want to drag a blade across their skin until blood seeps out, it actually makes perfect sense. More »
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