The shocking one first. The largest study of self-harm among teenagers in England has found that one in 10 teenage girls harms herself each year. Sends a bit of a shudder through you, doesn't it?
The findings from the recent survey by the Samaritans and Bath and Oxford Universities show self-harm to be far more widespread than previously thought and that it is often associated with being bullied, physically or sexually abused or worries about sexuality. The survey, of more than 6,000 young people aged 15 and 16 also showed that girls were four times more likely to have engaged in self-harm than boys.
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