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By Robert Kennedy, About.com Guide to Private Schools since 1997

Self-injury: A Treatable Syndrome

Sunday February 19, 2006
This article began five years ago as an article on teen suicide. I've experienced a couple of friends and colleagues dying this way over the years. I honestly can't think of anything quite as devastating as suicide. It's horrible. It scatters guilt and sadness everywhere in its path.

One of suicide's warning signs could be something called cutting. Self-injury (SI) like depression is treatable. Suicide itself is preventable. Find out more here.

From a Blogger Named Lonely_Views International Self-injury Day is March 1.
Blunt Razors Web site devoted to SI.

Langston Hughes Read about black America's unofficial poet laureate. Fascinating profile from our Poetry Guides.

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