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Teens Talk About Cutting

By D'Arcy Lyness (Reviewer) — 2016

We get lots of emails, especially about our articles on cutting. Sometimes people tell us about the feelings and emotions that surround cutting. Others share their ideas on how they stopped. We decided to put some of these suggestions and comments on our site.

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