BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDERS

TIME MAGAZINE 16 MAY 2005

SUMMARY:
The cruelest cut is when you have people cutting themselves. A growing population of boys and girls for whom cutting, burning or other self injuring is becoming a common way of managing emotional pain. Psychologist have been conduction surveys and gathering data from clinics, hospitals, private practices, and they are shocked by their findings. According to ones study in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology from 14% to 39% of adolescents engage in self mutilating behavior.

RELATES TO CLASS:
This article is related to borderline personality disorder which the person is unstable; lack of clear sense of identity.

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