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Furthermore, in recent years the College has had reason to focus on students expressing thoughts of self-harm or suicide. In 1998, the family of an undergraduate sued the University three years after their daughter had been stabbed to death by her Dunster House roommate, who committed suicide after the attack...
...fact that “self-harm behaviors” such as substance abuse and cutting are increasingly correlated with eating disorders shows that “people are under higher levels of stress and [are] not getting help for what they’re needing,” Armstrong said...
...under-researched areas of study: "In addition to the topics discussed here, some areas of youth online safety are critically under-researched, particularly (1) minor-minor solicitation; (2) the creation of problematic (sexual, violent, self-harm) content by minors; (3) less visible groups, such as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender youth and youth with disabilities who may be particularly vulnerable; (4) the interplay between socioeconomic class and risk factors; (5) the role that pervasive digital image and video capture devices play in minor-to-minor harassment and youth production of problematic content; (6) the intersection of different mobile and Internet...
...makes it so explosive - is the sufferers' inability to calibrate their feelings and behavior. When faced with an event that makes them depressed or angry, they often become inconsolable or enraged. Such problems may be exacerbated by impulsive behaviors: overeating or substance abuse; suicide attempts; intentional self-injury. (The methods of self-harm that borderlines choose can be gruesomely creative. One psychologist told me of a woman who used fingernail clippers to pull off slivers of her skin...
Once they were aware of the trend, Shiels and his colleagues analyzed the patients' medical records, finding consistent histories of self-injury and mental-health problems. There are numerous psychological and emotional factors that drive people to self-harm, but according to Harvard psychology professor Matthew Nock, who specializes in the study of self-injurious behavior and edited a book on the subject, Understanding Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (due March 2009), many do it for two broad reasons: to regulate their emotions and to communicate with others. "Self-injurers experience greater physiological arousal in response to stress, show poor ability...