Mental Health
1 in 5 Students Surveyed at 2 Ivy League Colleges Cut Themselves
I was not too surprised to read this, but still, I found shocking that “1 in 5 at Cornell, Princeton practices cutting.” Here is an article from Cornell’s ChronicleOnline that discusses this issue in some detail.
The 2 Ivy league schools listed in the article were Cornell (my alma mater) and Princeton. Not long ago on this site, I commented on high suicide rates of Asian American students at Cornell. I had interviewed Dr. Deborah Serani on self-injury on NakedMedicine.com and Dr. Serani also wrote an article about self-injury there.
Students injured themselves through cutting, burning or other means, and psychologists are hearing more about self-injury in young people as a way to relieve stress or “make emotional wounds visible.”
I started writing more about emotional abuse on this website because it was one of the stimuli that led to my own depression. I’m beginning to realize that emotional wounds can manifest in many different ways beside depression and bipolar disorder.
Something that Dr. Serani had touched on that needs to be pointed out is how there are websites that glorify self-injury. These websites perpetuate this dangerous coping mechanism by providing an illusion to vulnerable teens and young adults that “this is how you can connect and belong.”
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