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Stressed youngsters are self-harming

A phenomenon clinically described as “non-suicidal deliberate self-harm” — adolescents injure themselves with knives, blades or even the pointy compass from the geometry box — is increasingly coming to the attention of mental health professionals. The self-mutilation, they say, is a method of coping with pent-up stress and anxiety.

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