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When Self-Harm Is for Attention
07 Feb 2025 00:10 GMT
You see this stigma of self-harm for attention played out in TV shows, movies, and often even in real life: A person engages in self-harm. This behavior is noticed by another person, either because the self-harmer has confessed or wears visible scars. …
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Violent Online Group CVLT Coerced Kids to Self-Harm, DOJ Says
06 Feb 2025 16:53 GMT
Last week, federal authorities in California’s Central District unsealed an indictment filed Jan. 17 accusing three American men and one French man of participating in a “neo-Nazi child exploitation enterprise” that “groomed and then coerced minors to …
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A Distraught Man Engaging in Self-Injury
06 Feb 2025 04:46 GMT
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Women prisoners banned from putting dirty underwear in washing machines as lack of 'basic care' driving self-harm
05 Feb 2025 12:59 GMT
Female prisons have a self-harm rate 8.5 times higher than male jails, as women experience a lack of "basic care" - including a "bizarre rule" that bans them from putting dirty underwear in washing machines.
In a report published …
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Lack of basic care for women in prison leading to self-harm, inspector warns
05 Feb 2025 10:40 GMT
Photo Andrew Milligan/PA Wire
A lack of “basic care” for women in prisons causes such distress that some inmates resort to harming themselves, inspectors have warned amid rising levels of self-harm in jails.
Inspectors have revealed “deeply depressing” …
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UK visa policy an ‘act of national self-harm’, ministers told as Lords demand review
05 Feb 2025 05:51 GMT
“Indeed, it is the Committee’s view that the current policy, which throws up barriers to coming to the UK to work and study for Master’s and PhD students, young researchers, scientists and technology experts early in their careers, is an act of national …
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‘Basic lack of decency’ driving self-harm in women’s prisons, report says
05 Feb 2025 00:20 GMT
Women in prison are resorting to self-harm because of “astonishing gaps” in basic services including strict time limits when contacting their children and bans from using washing machines for dirty underwear, according to a watchdog’s report.
A survey of …
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Nearly a third of parents have considered suicide or self-harm due to the overwhelming stress of caregiving, survey says
02 Feb 2025 23:52 GMT
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Bridgeton Sicko Led Neo-Nazi Child Porn Ring Forcing Youth Into Self-Harm: Feds
01 Feb 2025 16:51 GMT
Colin John Thomas Walker, 23, of Bridgeton, and the group allegedly victimized at least 16 minors around the world, the US Department of Justice announced.
The indictment also charges two other defendants from France and Texas, already in custody.
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Why hating the rich is an act of national self-harm - Colin Brazier
01 Feb 2025 07:05 GMT
Not a million miles from where my sheep graze in Wiltshire is the home of a very rich man. So wealthy, they say, that when he jets into the UK for a couple of weeks a year, he is - for that fortnight - Britain’s richest resident.
It’s also fair to say that …