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Originally Posted by The_little_didgee
This reminded me of my very first morning in the hospital. I was 16 at the time. A 13 year old girl came into my room and introduced herself. She told me why she was there and proudly showed me her self-harm scars. I was shocked since I never seen or heard of that before. She explained how she did it and then pulled out a piece metal that once a part of a pop can.
This happened in a pediatric hospital. A lot of the patients were into self-harm and teaching others how to do it. I never experienced that in any of the adult psychiatric units I was on.
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That's terrible. I always and always will cover my self harm scars, out of embarrassment and so I don't trigger anyone. I've seen more self harm from other patients in adult units than in adolescent ones. They usually don't last long though, once something like that happens they're usually gone the next day.