Self-Injury YouTube Videos
Mark an Alarming New Trend

Graphic videos and images showing people deliberately cutting or burning themselves or engaging in other nonsuicidal self-injurious behavior are readily accessible on YouTube, and frequently viewed by young people, a new study has found. First author Stephen P. Lewis, PhD, and colleagues are concerned that this "may foster communities of youth in which NSSI is encouraged, normalized, and sensationalized, which may reinforce and exacerbate the risk for NSSI."

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