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...Cosby Show. Oh, Bill Cosby’s pearls of parenting wisdom. I will parent my kids based on the Cosby Show. Do you know the one with Vanessa and a clarinet? That’s the best. Vanessa plays the clarinet for a week and then wants to do something completely different, but Bill in all his parental wisdom explains they bought this clarinet and if she doesn’t use it who will? It’s great...
...weeks later, Det. James Hyde met “Vanessa,” who entered the room topless and followed a similar routine, according to a police report...
...Vanessa needn't be so clever anymore. In the past 18 months, she has cut herself only once. She was pleased and surprised to find that she didn't enjoy...
...most people--and especially most parents--the idea that anyone would tolerate the sting of a razor blade or the cut of a knife, much less enjoy it, is unthinkable. But maybe they are just not paying attention. Vanessa is not a member of some remote fringe of the emotionally disabled but part of a growing population of boys and girls for whom cutting, burning or otherwise self-injuring is becoming a common--if mystifying--way of managing emotional pain...
...problem is that any time you chase a high, you risk getting hooked on it. "The longer kids cut, the more they need it," says psychologist Jennifer Hartstein of the Montefiore Medical Center in Bronx, N.Y., where Vanessa was treated...