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As our kids battle a rise in suicide and self-harm, we’re gutting the funding to fight it
19 Jun 2025 11:10 GMT
Editor's note: This story contains descriptions of child self-harm and attempted suicide.
Tristan Lorenz sat in a room with his school counselor and principal at Alma Elementary in western Wisconsin, listening as his psychiatrist, parents and Buffalo …
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Stressed parents increase the risk of self-harm in adolescents
18 Jun 2025 23:13 GMT
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One in ten Norwegian adolescents has engaged in deliberate self-harm without the intention of dying from it.
"Self-harm is an attempt to cope with an …
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Where Is God When I Cut Myself? Soul Care and the Voices of Self-Injury Survivors
18 Jun 2025 17:55 GMT
It was a Friday afternoon at the animal hospital where I worked part-time during grad school. A woman named Anne came in to pick up food for her cat. As I rang her through, I asked how she was doing. She looked down, then up, and I saw tears in her eyes. …
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Olly Alexander shares journey of recovery from self-harm and eating disorders
18 Jun 2025 08:07 GMT
Olly Alexander has shared his mental health journey. (Getty)
Olly Alexander has opened up about his past experiences with, and recovery from, depression, self-harm and eating disorders, sharing that ‘it comes from a place of shame’.
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‘Reading what people said about me on Tattle Life became a form of self-harm’
18 Jun 2025 00:53 GMT
Last week, the creator of anonymous trolling website Tattle Lifewas unmasked. After Neil and Donna Sands from Northern Ireland won a landmark £300,000 defamation case against the forum, the courts named the owner as vegan food blogger Sebastian Bond, 43, …
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Family seeks answers after 19-year-old dies from self-harm attempt in Kent County jail
17 Jun 2025 20:55 GMT
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Singapore study reveals 1 in 4 young people have self-harmed
17 Jun 2025 02:43 GMT
One in four Singaporeans aged 15 to 35 have engaged in deliberate self-harm at least once, researchers have found, with the behaviour especially prevalent among teenagers – highlighting mounting concerns about emotional distress and unhealthy coping …
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One in four young people in Singapore have self-harmed, national study finds
15 Jun 2025 05:19 GMT
SINGAPORE, June 15 — A quarter of young people in Singapore have deliberately hurt themselves at least once in their lives, often by cutting, scratching or punching themselves, according to a national study that sheds light on non-suicidal self-injury ( …
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1 in 4 young people in S’pore has engaged in self-injury without suicidal intent: Study
15 Jun 2025 03:46 GMT
SINGAPORE – One in four young people here say they have hurt themselves at least once in their lives, in ways such as cutting or punching themselves.
This was the finding of a recent study that shed new light on the prevalence and patterns of non-suicidal …
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ChatGPT Linked to Delusions, Self-Harm, and Escalating Mental Health Crises
14 Jun 2025 07:13 GMT
New evidence suggests that ChatGPT’s latest model, GPT-4o, may be contributing to severe psychological breakdowns in vulnerable users, with some cases ending in hospitalization or suicide. A recent investigation by The New York Times uncovered multiple …