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n2ops
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n2ops
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Posted:05/02/2006 1:52 PM
"Reba," a 17-year-old, has a hard time controlling her emotions. She often takes some good-natured joking from her siblings, but she doesn't like it. At the age of 15 she was sexually harassed by a classmate in school for an entire year. As a result she began cutting herself, first with safety pins, then with razors, knives or pretty much anything sharp she could find. She's even been suicidal at times, over little things like forgetting her cell phone. Shocking? Yes. But perhaps the most disturbing thing about Reba's behavior is that she is a Christian, raised in what she calls a happy, loving, Christian home. Like most other destructive behaviors, cutting has moved into the church, and many Christian teens are getting involved. Those behaviors that we have so neatly bookmarked as "of the world" are finding their way into our homes at an alarming rate.

http://www.cpyu.org/Page.aspx?id=77237

Cutting, also known as self-injury (SI) or self-mutilation (SM), can take on a variety of forms, from actual cutting of the skin with sharp objects to burning themselves, punching themselves or banging their heads against the wall. Cutting has been popping up more in movies, music and other areas of pop culture, and, as a result, it is reaching near epidemic proportions. So much so that "Jessica" tried it a few times but stopped because she felt everyone was doing it: "I saw that it was becoming more of a fad than a problem solver." Though growing up in a solid Christian home, she has struggled with matters of faith, was suicidal for a time and is on medication for depression.

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