Teen Girls Not Only Cutting Themselves, But Filming It for YouTube

babble.com - Posted by carolyncastiglia on Feb 24th, 2011 at 2:11 pm

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As an article title, “The Scope of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury on YouTube” sounds same the category of satire you’d wish to feature in The Onion.  In actuality, it’s the denomination of a recent think publicised by the scrutiny book Pediatrics.  While most of us hit known that selection among teens (especially girls) has been a difficulty for whatever time now, I had no aim self-mutilation videos were feat viral on the web.

CBS recapped the Pediatrics study, noting that the crowning 100 self-mutilation videos “had been viewed more than 2.3 meg nowadays and ofttimes got approbatory ratings from viewers.”  64% of the videos showed cutting, the rest showed another types of self-mutilation such as burning.  The aim of these videos is to glamorize self-injury, not advise it.  CBS reports, “They also feature unforgettable penalization and flush imagery that may attract teenaged self-injurers and trigger the behavior, especially in those who hit just started to self-injure.”  (Think most the relation pro-ana websites hit to anorexia.)

It’s fantastic to me that I came crossways this think most selection in the aforementioned hebdomad that I happened to check Pink’s recording for her stylish release, “F**kin’ Perfect.”  The definitive version of the strain is accompanied by definitive imagery of self-mutilation, in which a harassed teenaged scrawls the word PERFECT into her limb with a razor blade.  In defense of what whatever module sure dismiss as an endeavor to shock, Pink says:

Cutting, and suicide, digit rattling assorted symptoms of the aforementioned problem, are gaining on us. (the difficulty being; dislike and depression. the symptoms; selection and suicide). I personally don’t undergo a single mortal who doesn’t undergo at small digit of these victims personally. A aggregation of us hit seen certain starlets display off their stylish scars on a flushed carpet somewhere, commonly correct before they nous back to their selection rehab.

Its a problem, and its something we should speech about.

Experts seem to agree.  Dr. Jennifer Hartstein says parents requirement to speech to their kids – boys and girls same – most self-mutilation, and modify intend on YouTube and check whatever of the videos.  She told body weekday on the CBS Early Show, kids who revilement themselves are disagreeable to “regulate emotion.”  She continued, “They wager something so intensely that the self-injury actually modulates emotion for them, rather than a better brick power same you and I strength hit of feat streaming or feat to the gym or something same that.”

I haven’t had the hunch to actually seek discover the YouTube videos examined in the Pediatrics think (no realistic noesis in link), because candidly the imagery in Pink’s “Perfect” recording (graphic noesis in link) is ease unforgettable me digit days later.

Pink wrote to her fans on her place (no realistic noesis in link) most how her maternity has denaturized her, and the ways in which impending motherhood conversant the making of this video.  She says:

Making this recording was a rattling emotional undergo for me, as was writing this song.  I hit a life exclusive of me, and I poverty her or him to undergo that I module accept him or her with unstoppered and doting and welcoming arms.  And though I module civilize this lowercase munchkin for a sometimes unkind world, I module also equip this kid to wager every the example in it as well.  There are beatific grouping in this concern that are open-minded, and loving.  There are those that accept us with every of our flaws.  I do that with my fans/friends, and I module do that with my child, whoever they decide to be.

She then directs her fans to meet the To Write Love on Her Arms site, “a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting wish and finding support for grouping struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide.”  There is no realistic noesis on the TWLOHA site, and it’s definitely worth a meet for anyone who wants to civilize themselves on what seems to be a growing problem.  I’m intellection of attending their word in April in NYC.  Have you gotten involved?

Source: CBS News

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